30%-35% GPU usage only.

[FluffyM]

This game just still suffers from bad optimization, been a problem for me since beta. i5 and HD5770 are by no means high-end, but it should be good enough to get constant 60+ FPS in a game that, frankly, doesn't look all that great.

[Proph]

... Also coding is easier then cooking a hamburger. All it takes is the ability to pay attention to small details. The only reason MMO's have as many bugs as they do is because of the amount of hands that touch the code. Too many hands and you get bugs cause people don't remember or know all the code. ...

I lol'ed

literally

[Retsopmi]

Given the guy's attitude, I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't a coding issue or a hardware issue... but rather that the OP picked up a monitor, ran Rift, alt-tabbed, turned on the monitor and saw 35% GPU load.

Yep you are sooooo right. Oh wait. Given your responses I wouldn't be surprised if you walk into traffic due to a lack of common sense.

It's not necessarily that simple, though, because it might be that the game is simply doing more significant non-GPU computation.

If determining what to render is a lot easier for one program, and harder for another, that doesn't mean the second program is less "efficient", it just means it's doing more...

Really? No really? That is what you came up with? So you are telling me that Rift is soooo complex that the game is just choosing to do more non GPU computations? Really?

Where do these people come from. This is basic knowledge. It doesn't take rocket science to understand that a game should be coded to utilize hardware correctly. If the game isn't trying to utilize hardware then that is a coding issue. It's not a CPU bottleneck, or GPU error. It is terrible coding.

Funny enough with the 1.9 patch, and also the reason I hadn't been back to these forums, it was fixed. Game was hitting upper 70% on the GPU and was running like a dream on Ultra+ (+ being every slider over). Then they do another quick update and back to the **** house. This time it's worse. 25% max GPU load in a event. CPU, all cores, never going past 15%. This really needs to be looked at.

I lol'ed

literally

Not sure if you lol'ed cause you have no knowledge, or because you actually understand and also find it funny. In case of the former. Go read up on the new UE4 engine. Even they have realized the amount of noobs that touch code is causing issues. They even figured out ways to allow programmers to create toggles for others to use so that others can make minor alterations without having to screw with the whole code and creating the **** storm of crappy titles over the last generation.