Framerate Drops? High Cpu Loads? Cpu Overheating? This Might Fix It! (Cpu Core Unparking)

[Letter13]

Hey everyone,

 

It seems like a lot of people are starting to experience some performance issues with the game, and I thought I'd make a thread to address said performance issues as well as provide what seems to be a way to fix it (as well as improving your system's performance for games other than Warframe too).

 

The (possible) culprit, spoilered because it's a bit lengthy.

CPU Core Parking

 

In Windows 7 (and Windows 8) there's a built-in feature to the OS called CPU Parking; this feature is designed to balance the power load and decrease power consumption by your CPU by limiting core activity. For normal (non-gaming) use this has no effect on applications and performance, however for high-power computing as well as gaming (especially since more games are being designed for multicore machines) this is tantamount to shooting yourself in the foot; in some cases it's tantamount to shooting yourself in the foot and then dipping said foot in a vat of infectious bacteria. This is because physical (and logical cores if hyperthreaded) are parked and unavailable for use by multithreaded applications designed to run across multiple cores, and forcing a multithreaded application designed to run on multiple cores to only run on a single physical core causes a multitude of performance issues due to how threads are scheduled as well as how the CPU handles all of the extra processing (it can make your CPU overheat!).

 

Warframe's multithreaded rendering option is specifically designed to drastically increase performance on multi-core machines, however if it's enabled and Warframe only has access to 1 physical (and/or logical) core due to the others being parked, then you will likely suffer some pretty severe performance issues (one user's PC was blue screening because the PC force shut down due to one of their cores overheating). To fix this, your cores need to be unparked.

 

Unparking your cores is easy, and it can solve a multitude of performance issues you might be having, there's a nifty how-to guide Here, or you can follow the guide on this thread.

 

How to Unpark your CPU Cores

    1. Download the Unpark CPU Utility and unzip it somewhere (like your desktop)

    2. Run the .exe file as an administrator (right click > run as administrator)

    3. Click "Check Status" and wait for it to complete (image below)

 

    4. Click "Unpark All" after the check finishes if any status reads "Parked"

 

    5. You're done!

        5a. Make sure you have "Multithreaded Rendering" enabled in the launcher!

              5aa. Enable Threaded Optimization/Multithreading in Nvidia/AMD GPU control panels!

 

Give Warframe a try afterwards to see if this helped improve your performance or solve performance issues you may have been having.

 

Multithreaded rendering will yield a MUCH better performance boost if your cores are unparked.

 

If this worked (or didn't) work for you, please feel free to comment on this thread.

[-CCC-Secret]

Still no luck, I tried defragmenting and nothing happened still the same slow loading.

 

Images taken just now

 

Still took 5-10 mins to load a map. Please help me...

 

EDIT:

Took 12 mins in total

Edited July 10, 2015 by secret9005

[EpicPerson54]

All my cores were parked :o

[--RV--Dante]

lets see if it works :D

[UltimateNinjaWarrior]

How noticeable is the rise in the electricity bill?

[Abenoki]

How noticeable is the rise in the electricity bill?

 

Unless youre constantly running under heavy load, a server, or just something most normal people wont run you wont notice. The CPU cores still idle and reduce power they just don't park/shut off.

[_Medo_]

Does this increase the heat ? I got a laptop with a useless fan that can barely cool the cpu and gpu so they are both 90-95 C always when playing the game. I know it's not a good temp but any higher than this and I will probably get blue screens and stuttering and other things like that. if this does increase fps without increasing the load or heat on the cpu then I will try this for sure.

[aavvdkdk]

Does this increase the heat ? I got a laptop with a useless fan that can barely cool the cpu and gpu so they are both 90-95 C always when playing the game. I know it's not a good temp but any higher than this and I will probably get blue screens and stuttering and other things like that. if this does increase fps without increasing the load or heat on the cpu then I will try this for sure.

I'd like to know this as well, my laptop has been getting quite hot lately (well, it's summer so...) so if it increases problems might arise. 

[dendroaspis84]

I have i7 3770k paired with GTX 780 ti & 16gb RAM & to be honest I don't have performance problems even on maxed out settings, but should I still use this CPU parking thing?

[JohnViande]

Thanks for the tip. I didn't notice any improvement though but that was worth the try :p

[DarkRuler2500]

Might I have any negative side effects by unparking those ?

[MillbrookWest]

Bumping this thread from the archives.

 

A recent Windows Update seems to have adjusted the values for core parking in the registry, re-enabling it in the process, people may want to re-look into this if it was something that helped them.

 

EDIT:

Windows 10 Update. Seems to coincide with a little visual update to windows 10 also.

Edited December 16, 2015 by MillbrookWest

[WindBlade]

On XP here. is something like this liable to be affecting me, and is ther anything I can do about it?

[Wh00pdid00pdid00]

after doing this, my fps dropped from around 90 to 5 o.o i don't know what i am doing wrong

[Stormdragon]

Posting here for latter investigation. Hopefully works and saves my notebook from melting.

[Xarc0s]

Hi everyone,

 

Unparked cpu doesen't work for me.. Someone have an other solution for these fps drops ?

[_Medo_]

Posting here for latter investigation. Hopefully works and saves my notebook from melting.

did you try it ? did it increase your laptop's heat ?

[Mr.Deadlus]

Well , never really had FPS issues with the game prior to building a new PC , currently run the game at either 1080p or 1440p at 150FPS avg or 90FPS avg . 

 

That isnt so important , but what i did notice is that Warframe stresses the CPU more than some AAA titles ( BF4 , Crysis 3 even ) and after like an hour or two i have to remove my sidepanel in order for the CPU to stay in comfortable boundaries . 

 

As of specs : i5-4690k @ 4.3Ghz . R9 390 GPU , 8 gigs RAM and the H440 from NZXT.

[-Jammo-]

Hopefully un parking the cores should reduce the heat @_Medo_

[_Medo_]

Hopefully un parking the cores should reduce the heat @_Medo_

reduce it ? I thought it would increase it .. well I might try it later tommorow thanks

[Stormdragon]

did you try it ? did it increase your laptop's heat ?

Tried a few days ago and heat was effectively reduced and performance ended up increased. Still playing pm low quality (which looks great anyways) to avoid excessive distractions and reduce notebook overheating.

I recommend this solution, at least to me, worked as supposed to do.

(Thanks Letter13)

[Escralja]

I'm pretty late, but does this still work?

[_Medo_]

I forgot to reply after trying this

it works .. it does reduce heat and improves performance a lot

almost 20 FPS increase in the ship and light missions and maybe 10-15 FPS increase in the places with lots of mobs and particles

[Xbalanque84]

This helped, but now for some reason the Steam Overlay isn't coming up

[Dracorya]

Tried this...Warframe for some reason is still gobbling up almost 50% of my CPU. Been a consistent issue for me with the CPU running really hot.

[SourTaco]

I'd like to add that (at least for me) this helps with normal computing as well, i reinstalled windows 7 and it was acting a bit weird( being slow to respond, freezing etc) and this helped.