Poor Performance

[GIXXERjr]

I used to play AH a lot back in the day and just recently got back into it.  I know that my PC doesn't have the best hardware, but I feel as though AH is running very poorly for what I do have.

When I check MSI Afterburner it shows that ~25% of my GPU is being utilized.  Also when I check task manager, it appears that AH is only using 1 of my 6 physical CPU cores.  Is this typical for AH to only use 1 CPU core and hardly any GPU power?

I have the sliders set to maybe half way, and my FPS will on average be in the 40's.  Sometimes in a furball it will get down into the 30's.  I remember being able to play this game at 5760x1080 on a mid range graphics card 3 years ago.  Has the game requirements increased that much lately?

My Specs:
AMD FX 6100 6 core CPU @ 3.9ghz
AMD R9 270X 2GB @ 1150mhz core 1400mhz memory
8GB Gskill DDR3 1866mhz memory
AM3 M5A97 Asus motherboard
600W PSU
240GB SSD

[Skuzzy]

If the CPU does not have dedicated high resolution timers for each core, we can only use one core.  AMD has been a grab bag in this area.  Some have it, some don't.

At the resolution you are running, be sure to disable any anti-aliasing and also make sure the slider for the environment mapping is not at full.

The next update to Aces High has a new graphic engine and it will use 100% of your GPU.  The current engine does not.

[FLS]

Set the slider for environment map to "none" in graphics settings/advanced.