[2021] I thought 7D2D was GPU base

I’m curious why you thought it was GPU based. It’s consistently been CPU based for years; probably since inception. Were you informed by a source that says otherwise?

Originally posted by Kafir: Ok i run a probably a potato of a computer i built 5-6 years ago. I run a GTX 970 and a AMD FX-8350 8 Core. It does the job some times. I run the game on low settings my GPU doesnt top more than 50C when running the game and my CPU doesnt take much load. My ram isnt taking much of a hit (running 32gigs ram in my set up) but im still getting random lag drops in frames even when in buildings or opening items.

My question is is this normal due to the game not having optimizing yet or is this something i need to look further into my PC? Ive in the past few days dug into my PC back and forth to find the issue with no luck.. I know my PC isnt the best of the best but money isnt growing on trees when you have other life priorities to take care of first.

Your CPU is the issue. It supports multithreading better than the previous gen that hardly supported it at all, but it has extremely poor single-core performance. You probably would benefit from locking the client into only using 4 cores, however it will struggle to meet the processing demands of the client.