I set up a CPU bottleneck on purpose, i7-9700K with an RTX 4060. CPU was pegged at 99%, GPU was chilling at around 70-80%. Black ops 6 used for testing.
Then I tried two “fixes”
Raise the resolution
Just raise graphics settings from low to balanced.
Both worked. One actually makes sense. The other is dumb, but it still fixed the bottleneck.
Not a deep dive, just an experiment to show that sometimes “fixing” a bottleneck doesn’t mean what people think it does.
Video here https://youtu.be/6XklkmGgnCo