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Thief high cpu usage

Denis Stoikovski

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Feb 2, 2014
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I get from 50-100% cpu usage in thief why am with i5 3350p and am not even playng the game at max i play it on 1400x900 res the settings are all low the aa is 4x and the tex quality is high i have 10-25 max fps my gpu is gt 640 why do i get so high cpu usage?
 
Solution
It's probably expected, Thief does use quite a bit of processing power and the game isn't that optimized yet. Changing the video settings wont necessarily change the load on the processor by a great deal however.
It's probably expected, Thief does use quite a bit of processing power and the game isn't that optimized yet. Changing the video settings wont necessarily change the load on the processor by a great deal however.
 
Solution


Yeah i noticed that yesterday 😀 when i put it on ultra it was the same but its strange when am in game its 20-50 and wehen tis loading something goes to 100%