Below are some examples during the benchmark of how the CPU is handling the benchmark on ULTRA SETTINGS. Keep in mind there are no modifications to the CPU core count and gamerprofile.xml config file, as well as any settings changed in my NVIDIA Control Panel.

I am currently testing out these settings on an RTX 3080 10GB and R5 5600X CPU.



This really isn't ideal, you don't want to really be around 40% or more CPU usage while playing games (A sweeter spot for CPU usage is no more than 20%-25%). Looking at the FPS benchmark, the framerate could also be a lot more stable than it is right now.

In this section, I will be showing you what changes you will need to make to the NVIDIA Control panel to make the game a lot more stable.

First things first, let's change the NVIDIA settings. Open the control panel and go to the 'Manage 3D Settings' category. Click on Program Settings and add Far Cry 5 to the list of applications (if it isn't already there). You can find where the .exe is by right clicking FC5 in your Steam library and clicking Browse Local Files. After it's added change your settings to look like this:

The second thing we are going to change is the gamerprofile.xml config file. This file houses all of your settings for the game to reference, what we are going to do is change a few options. The file is located in your Documents>My Games>Far Cry 5>gamerprofile.xml. Open this file with notepad (notepad++ is a better option to use, if you have it. If you do not, it is free to download on their website: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/).

There are a few options we are going to turn off here and a few options we are going to change. Do not worry, this will not make your game look absolutely awful, chances are you will hardly notice the differences while playing unless you are specifically looking for them. Search for these (by using CTRL+F) and make sure they look just like this:
DisableLoadingMip0="1"
GPUMaxBufferedFrames="3"
(^These settings are on a different line)

EnvironmentQuality="high"
PostFxQuality="false"
TextureQuality="ultrahigh"
VolumetricFogQuality="false"
WaterQuality="high"
VegetationQuality="high"
TerrainQuality="high"
GeometryQuality="high"
AmbientQuality="false"
ShadowQuality="medium"

The big settings that will effect your FPS and CPU usage are going to be:
ShadowQuality
PostFxQuality
VolumetricFogQuality
GeometryQuality
AmbientQuality

Set this to 'Read Only' when you are done making changes to it.

This is the final change you are going to have to do to the game. Unfortunately this is also something you will have to do with the game every time you boot it up, but everything you have done in the NVIDIA Control Panel and gamerprofile.xml will stay permanently.

While the game is running, open up Task Manager and go to the Details tab. Right click Far Cry 5 and select the option Set Priority, change it to HIGH.

Do the exact same thing but this time click Set Affinity, and uncheck every ODD CPU NUMBER, DO NOT UNCHECK THE EVEN ONES. The odd CPU numbers are virtual cores, the even ones are the physical ones in the CPU. We want to use all the physical ones instead of the virtual ones.

Here are the final results, after all of the changes made:


Here are the results from before, this is before all the changes were made:


The FPS has increased as the load is being transferred to the GPU a bit easier. CPU usage has dropped since the GPU is doing it's job. I also noticed the game seems to run a bit more stable and stutters a lot less as well after all the changes.

With all of that being said, this is the very end of the guide. Thank you for taking the time to read this, if this helped you out leave a comment and give it a good rating so more people can see this. Take it easy, and have a fun time playing Far Cry 5.