Marvel Rivals — CPU bottleneck or GPU bottleneck? How to actually tell

Quick one for the people who have put more hours into this than me. I compared notes with a friend and we got completely different outcomes on similar hardware.

Still open to better approaches if anyone has one.

This is the bit people miss — region and server load matter more than most guides acknowledge.

Quick correction to the above: nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

I went through this last month. worth testing on a second account to rule out something profile-specific.

From experience, this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Only partly related, but give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

Quick correction to the above: the safe move is the reversible one — you can always undo it if it makes things worse.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

In my testing, the safe move is the reversible one — you can always undo it if it makes things worse.

Depends on your setup, but broadly this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.

In my testing, temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.

Not the answer you want, but that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

Not the answer you want, but give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

Same boat here. you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.