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So I'm trying to find out why AA won't use up more than 7-10% or so of my Intel quad-core CPU, and why it will barely even use the same of my GPU (EVGA GTX 650 TI 2GB). I can run everything on the highest possible settings via the game and via the Nvidia control panel (antialiasing maxed, anisotropic filtering maxed, highest quality, etc); and with these settings, I get 90% until I encounter enemies or a bunch of textures, although CPU and GPU usage remains the same (barely anything) during these FPS fluctuations/inconsistencies. When I put all the settings on the lowest it can go (both via the game and NV control panel), it's the exact same performance, not a tad bit better or worse. That's BIZARRE and makes absolutely no sense at all.

Something has to be wrong. Help? Thoughts?

From what I know, AA (or rather the UE) is designed to run on one processor, so dual, quad (or however many) cores will not help you performance-wise.

I'm pretty sure your rig is a complete overkill performance wise for this game and engine.

As for the bad performance in game even though you have pleanty of resources left over, all I can think of is that the game engine is slow and it might be that the game is modifying enough stuff for it to not play 100% smooth on any rig you give it. I simply don't know.
What I do know, is that I've played AA on a number of computers (both laptops and PCs) and I've never seen a computer that never struggles with it. My FPS could be max all the time, but still it will freeze for half a second every couple of minutes.

All in all, I would blame the engine and the game, but I think the performance was increased in later versioons where directx 9 was usable. Not sure if this was the cause or something else, but I've seen a lot of people say later versions were smoother on high performance machines.

I used to have a good GPU and AA wouldn't use 100% of a single core or the GPU. It's just poor/old programming. You gotta remember that it runs on an old engine, an old version of DirectX and there's inefficiencies in how the code is written. I don't know where the limit is but having a super computer won't help.

Yeah, I totally understand all that, but what Nick just said is the thing that's baffling. If you think my rig is overkill for the game, his is godlike for the game -- ABSOLUTE overkill. And it gives him about double the CPU usage, and he's at a constant 90 FPS, no matter what. Something's gotta be up with that. I'm gonna figure that shit out one day. lol

Isn't that my epic 8600GT?

Even in 2.8.5 DX9 wasn't supported by default, and some people like ACI, AON had cvars against it. Its possible to get more performance out of the game and engine, but I don't think you can do it without the source or a way to recompile it.

684 gb RAMNetflix GPU GTX FPS 15% 3gHrtz default Phenom8600 right?

Probably a good idea to set ArmyOps.exe to above normal priority too.

Okay so don't bully me! I've got a Mac!!!

Mac Pro with two Intel Xeon X5570 processors (2,93Ghz quadcore) obviously overkill for this game...
24GB of ECC RAM
and a AMD 7950 3GB gpu thing...

the game runs at 90 fps always... don't know about the cpu usage etc etc anyway if it uses only one core it means it runs on 3.33GHz I think.