Low % of cpu and gpu being used?

[majortickles 1]

So, I've got this laptop I game on, (acer aspire V-3 series) and it's got an

I-7 3160Q 3.3Ghz

GT 640M nvidia GPU

6GB ram

win 7

 

Now when I play games I always run RivaTuner for some ingame GPU/CPU statistics, when i noticed that in Dayz Standalone the GPU only uses about 50% of its max, and the CPU is only using about 14%. Are these numbers "normal"? or on the low end?

 

Also whenever I'm in the menu, my CPU seems to be using more resources than when I'm ingame.

 

 

If they're on the low end how should i fix them?

 

(I already noticed that when i put my graphic settings higher the GPU would get more load, altho the FPS would drop. so that is unfortunatly not an option.

Edited February 10, 2014 by FancyPants12

[Gugolas 228]

Quite normal if you have high graphics, as you noticed. CPU work increases if you lower those.

You'll have to wait for client optimisation (hoping that it will work, RV engine is...particular).

So we are talking about Beta, far away from where we're now :)

[terminal_boy 860]

Turn graphics settings up/on one setting at a time until Afterburner/RivaTuner is showing 100% GPU use.

[majortickles 1]

Quite normal if you have high graphics, as you noticed. CPU work increases if you lower those.

You'll have to wait for client optimisation (hoping that it will work, RV engine is...particular).

So we are talking about Beta, far away from where we're now :)

 

Thanks for the reply, thing is. Just this afternoon i started to notice that whilst playing dayz, it changes my overclock settings I made for the GPU. the core clock would go from 784 Mhz, to 600-624. is that also just poor optimisation?