Don't get caught up in the numbers like that. It's all depends on how "GPU Usage" is calculated, and while formula X might give you consistent results in 99% of titles, it's that other 1% that are using your hardware differently. The inconsistent framerates between sessions is an issue. And I've noticed that longer sessions have degrading performance as well. But I've noticed in other games that use RT or DLSS that the GPU load numbers don't always correspond with performance like you would think. Also, RTX on in CP is going to drive down your framerate, and if you are GPU limited at a lower framerate, your CPU usage should be lower, because it's doing less work per second.
I agree...
The problem here is, that no matter what the RT settings are, the minute I enable any of them, my CPU usage goes down the drain.
I'm not expecting miracles. But a frame rate within the freesync spec of my monitor, feels doable with my hardware.
When I get good CPU utilization, changing settings (like crowd density) has a small but noticeable impact.
When I don't, no matter what I change (besides RT) the framerate stays the same.
Performance degradation is one other thing that really drives me nuts.
But I am at a point where, my performance (with RT) is at the levels I'd get after playing for two hours, only now it happens as soon as I start the game.
When I installed the game, I could go 1080p, DLSS on quality and RT on high and with the rest of the settings from low to high depending on their impact on visual quality and framerate and get consistently above 60 in the kabuki market.
Now, no matter what the resolution is, the framerate will stay around 35 (regardless of time of day, weather conditions and location) unless the game decides to use my CPU.
I am not on AMD (where the game has problems with), I have an i9 9900k and an RTX 2080.
I removed my overclock, defaulted my BIOS, re-enabled my overclock, re-instaled windows in a different disk (to check if bloatware is the problem) but cannot get the game to run the way it did when I started playing.
What I did not do is start the game from scratch, and now that I think of it, check to see if I have a significantly older save (unlikely) to see if it performs any differently.
If I wasn't working from home, I would have given up a long time ago.
