CPU bottleneck or GPU bottleneck? How to actually tell

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1. SOSolarfox

   Solarfox

   @solarfox77 · 4 Apr 2026, 11:17

   #21

   The usual fix here is it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

2. MEMercurypulse

   Mercurypulse

   @mercurypulse42 · 5 Apr 2026, 11:06

   #22

   Not the answer you want, but it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

3. DBDeniz B.

   Deniz B.

   @deniz_b · 5 Apr 2026, 18:15

   #23

   From experience, the averages hide the problem; look at the one percent lows instead.

   Let us know which part worked.

4. SISilentstein

   Silentstein

   @silentstein · 6 Apr 2026, 01:30

   #24

   Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

5. CICinderlynx

   Cinderlynx

   @cinderlynx81 · 6 Apr 2026, 14:36

   #25

   Adding to the above: this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.