Anyone else having high cpu usage?

[メルクーネオ]

Im in i7 4790 getting temps of 91 deegres only with this game, is know my cpu is a toaster i know i know but they say minimun i5 so cant be that bad

[Texas_Jake]

My i9-9900k rarely goes above 30/40% usage, what kind of numbers are you seeing?

[veelckoo]

no

[Recjawjind]

At around min reqs, I'm definitely hard-bottlenecked by CPU.
GPU load is totally fine, it maxes out my CPU though.

[Cyant [HOBO]]

CPU util 5% - CPU Temp 70.5C - GPU 99% - GPU temp 58C hotspot 89C - I am so GPU bound running a 5950x with a 5700XT in 5120x1440 mostly max settings

[deadsanta]

Yes, and there have been dozens of these threads. My CPU temp spikes to 95C in Act2 in some places, only in this one game, but just you wait: Some fan will be around shortly to tell you that any overheating problem is defacto on your system, nothing to do with BG3.

Something is really unoptimized in this game, and there are too many culprits to narrow it down, seems like. I just played 10 hours in Act 1 without a crash, but I try and reload one cutscene in Act 2 in a different game... Crash after a CPU load spike that redlines my fan.

[Hawke]

You could try to throttle the CPU to control the temperature, and see if the game crashes or has a significant drop in performance.

[Frostfeather]

I know people who have a much easier time using Fullscreen vs borderless window. Might be worth a try.

[Recjawjind]

Originally posted by Hawke:

You could try to throttle the CPU to control the temperature, and see if the game crashes or has a significant drop in performance.

I mean it'll thermal throttle by itself already. Manually throttling is gonna hurt performance a lot.

[jonnin]

No, I was even able to run 4 instances at once on my PC to roll out my custom party and it barely hiccuped. I9/20 cores with 64gb ram, so a reasonably modern box, only 2 years old. Granted we were all just in the starter area together, so not a stress test, but so far the only lag I get is after 2-3 days of running it without closing it, the game needs to be closed and restarted or I do get a little misbehavior in big fights. (I tend to just leave games open all the time, and alt tab between them, for weeks on end).

[guard65]

Originally posted by g0dless_heathen:

My i9-9900k rarely goes above 30/40% usage?

My I9 also never goes over 30/40% and never goes over 40C. Then again I have 8 cores verses many users who have 4 cores. Not sure the cause for you'll but air cooled always runs hot and always throttles your CPU down to keep itself cool.

The only thing I would turn down is Clouds to low. Who cares about clouds anyway.

[Chaosolous]

My i5 11400f is usually around 60% usage.

Pathfinding on this game is CPU heavy, it's why the city slogs. CPU bottlenecked.

[Secret Squirrel]

Goodness, another one of these threads. What does the question even mean? Because "CPU usage/utilization" is usually measured in %. It is a metric that represents how much of the CPU's work capability it being used.

CPU temperature is not a "usage" metric, it tells the temperature of the CPU (hopefully the cores) .

Neither of these metrics on their own mean much, and one certainly cannot determine if a system is running as it should using but one metric.

However, with that one metric, 91C for temperature, one can conclude the CPU is reaching its limit (and likely is being throttled, and there is another metric for that).

That alone indicates a problem -- the cooling system is unable to keep the CPU out of high temperature ranges.

How severe the problem is, that is hard to say without understanding the CPU utilization metric. Because if a CPU only reaches high temps if it is pegged at 100%, that is less of a problem that if the temps went high when the CPU is pushed to 50%.

Since the problem stated is in the context of being when this game is played, then I'd say CPU isn't likely pegged at 100% for extended periods. More realistically, CPU probably hovers around 50% or less.

Therefore, CPU temp of 91C is a major concern.

How to solve it? Well, take it out of the context of this game, and stress and stability test the system using a combination of tools -- hwinfo for seeing the metrics, while you push CPU high with either a CPU benchmark (nice one built into CPU-Z), or something similar. I like to use Prime 95 to stress the CPU and memory -- and prime 95 will use and stress pretty much all the CPU that you throw at it, e.g run the CPU to 100% and keep it there.

You do this while monitoring CPU core temp in hwinfo. Ideally, in a proper system, CPU will never climb to high limits (or cross limits) even if the CPU is driven to 100% for hours.

I would expect OP to find their system has a problem here, that CPU temp climbs and climbs until it hits the limit and then throttling is the only thing keeping the CPU from being burned up.

TL;DR it isn't the game, its a system build problem.

I can't even begin to say what needs to be done to "fix" the underlying cooling problem. It may be insufficient to begin with, or it might just be clogged with dust/hairs, and need a cleaning.

But most likely it needs a cooling system upgrade.