Campaign gpu under usage

[nikita_nomad]

So I just started the Black Sea resolve campaign for f5 and I was really enjoyoing it until I started noticing that I have quite low fps  specifically when playing it. And so I went on to task manager and saw that whenever campaign is running I get really low gpu utilisation, around 10-15% and so it results in a slideshow in game. I can't figure out why, because dcs in general and any other campaign/mission on f5 or any other air frame runs at 60-90%. Weirdly enough as well, if I'm in a mission and on pause(not active one) I suddendly get higher gpu load, as soon as I unpause it drops again to under 20%... I'm out of ideas on this. Any help would be appreciated. Could it be because of cpu bottleneck? It's usage sits at around 50% as well. And it is an old cpu also. Thanks. p.s. gpu is rtx 3060ti, cpu i7 4770.

[speed-of-heat]

Your processor only has 4 cores, so 50% is pretty good utilisation.  But it is old and most likely bottle necking your 3060ti.

I would recommend turning off hyper threading if you can, on older machines this can be quite effective.

But before you do that , are you sure you are running on the 3060 and not the iGPU on the CPU? How much ram do you have ?

[nikita_nomad]

Yeah it's definitely 3060 running, I have 32 gb ddr3. How do I turn off hyper threading?

[speed-of-heat]

usually in the BIOS, exactly how depends on the MB manufacturer, you might also want to do the basic hygiene steps making sure stuff isnt running in the background etc... 

[nikita_nomad]

I found it and just tried it now. No difference at all. GPU usage on pause is around 60% which makes dcs run ok ish, but as soon as I unpause it it drops to 10-15%..Very strange as I tried other missions with lots of units in them and started another campaign which was fine as well. All the time it's above 50% utilisation.