Gnollrunner said:
I'm partial to intel CPUs but only because I worked for intel for 25 years. I gather these days AMD is superior from what I've read, but I'd like to hear opinions. I'm looking for CPUs in the range of i9 or Ryzen 9. Reliability is very important to me because I change computers rar…

Just a wild guess, but a game written in DirectX8 will probably not make much use of multithreading, or does it? If not, I assume you have a PC with 8 threads? If so, the ~12% CPU-usage would mean your game is CPU-locked on one thread, meaning the GPU might be just idling for >⅔rds of the time w…