Nvidia 3080 - Low GPU usage & crap performance | Forums

[Ferio12]

This gal needs to ask, as to exclude the possibility of lack of updates causing the issue

Thank you very much for providing your specs, I passed them on for investigation!

I'm sorry for your experience, though, I hope we will be able to address those quickly!

Well internet is full with these comments. Watch dogs is very poor optimized.

Explain please why only entering a vehicle, fps drops by 10 to 15?

[WilderDK]

turn extra details up and you will see

[Pronto_s8inotto]

Game runs like garbage on my build as well.

AMD 3970X
EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra
64GB RAM
RAID 0 NVMe 2TB game drive
4k display

I have a similar system just not with 3090, the performance is ok though. I got 3970x @ 4.3GHz, 128GB ECC RAM @ 3200MT and RAID 0 NVMe 2TB and playing on a 4k display with an 1080ti. Graphical settings were set to High-Ultra except I turned off most of the eye-candy effects like bloom, motion blur, SSS etc. And I didn't use ray tracing, the game is running on DX11. DX11 seems to be much more stable than DX12 from my experience so far. The average frame rate in the benchmark was 57fps and the lowest were 30ish in the most complex scene.

[Aenor7]

I also tried the DX11 version and it's way better (not perfect), in anycase there is no point in playing this game without the RTX features since it's basically a RTX promo game. It must work, no exceuses. Let's give Ubi some time to fix it.

[MetaIGear]

It's heavily CPU bound. It uses a couple of threads intensely.

From a 3700x to a 10900k you can literally gain 15-20 FPS across the board.

I imagine that gap will widen to 20-30fps extra with Zen 3.

Could be poor optimization, could also be the silly VMProtect DRM that hogs CPUs unnecessarily. Add that to an already CPU demanding game and performance will tank.

[Aenor7]

I don't think honestly the CPU bounding thing is the cause of such poor GPU usage; especially due to the fact that it happens both with high-end AMD and INTEL CPUs and with 4k resolutions.

[JackStillAlive]

Yes, latest Nvidia drivers(WD Legion Game Ready) and newest Win 10 October Update.

[CBATTT]

Hello,

Same bad performance on 1080p only : 30/35 fps !!!

AMD 3700x Stock
32 gb ram
RTX 3080 OC VISION

[nadir20]

Hello,

Same bad performance on 1080p only : 30/35 fps !!!

AMD 3700x Stock
32 gb ram
RTX 3080 OC VISION

I also have 30-35 with RTX medium, DLSS medium and I7 6700K OC @4.6 AND RTX 2080 SUPER ZOTAC AMP edition.

[Ferengi.]

I learned about this yesterday, if you switch to DX11 it actually becomes semi-playable. There is still some massive lag spikes here and there, but all in all it's actually playable.
You wont get to enjoy Ray tracing at DX11 which sucks.. but at least we can play the bloody game lol


DX11 at Ultra settings, DLSS at Quality, 1440P



DX12 at Ultra Settings, DLSS at Quality, 1440P, Ray Tracing on (Ray tracing on or off doesn't change AVG FPS)