90% CPU Usage

[Jelly Croissant]

Cutscenes are fine but the minute gameplay hits my usage spikes to 90% and sometimes 100%.

Usually it's around 50% or so.

Is this something I can fix or is anyone else having this problem.

My CPU is an i7-7700k. GPU is 2080ti

[Moga CMDR]

CPU for reference?

[Viper]

so what.. Its a CPU. Its within operating specs. Its being used. Normal operation. Its not a problem in any way...Nothing to fix.

[Hardware]

Yeah same, low GPU usage. This game is so optimized that the load goes over the CPU. Anyone have the same problem, low GPU usage and CPU at 100% ?

RTX2080 / i7 9700K / Win10 build 2004 (installed yesterday) / DLSS On / Ultra preset. The only solution that I found is to limit the framerate to 60fps.

30fps => CPU 40%
60fps => CPU 60%
120fps => CPU 100% constant
144fps => CPU 100% constant
240fps => CPU 100% constant

GPU load is the same regardless of framerate, 30 or 240fps same GPU load.

[Viper]

lol..Its not a probem. Only people who know nothing about PCs think it is. Games use varying amounts of CPU and GPU. The less powerful of one you have the more it is utilized.

[EuerDickerFreund]

8700K with 32GB Ram and "Asus Rog Strix 1080 TI OC" = 140fps average and about 60% cpu usage on Win10 Version 1909 and optimized Nvidia-Driver.

[Hardware]

Originally posted by Viper:

lol..Its not a probem. Only people who know nothing about PCs think it is. Games use varying amounts of CPU and GPU. The less powerful of one you have the more it is utilized.

It is.

GPU is made to be used at 95-100%, not the CPU. 100% CPU for hours is not healthy.

[Viper]

Originally posted by EuerDickerFreund:

8700K with 32GB Ram and "Asus Rog Strix 1080 TI OC" = 140fps average and about 60% cpu usage on Win10 Version 1909 and optimized Nvidia-Driver.

more powerful CPU with 6 cores and 12 threads...exactly what he would be getting if he had that more powerful CPU. He doesn't so. It is at the point of bottlenecking., I am betting he has a 4 core CPU

[Viper]

Originally posted by Hardware:

Originally posted by Viper:

lol..Its not a probem. Only people who know nothing about PCs think it is. Games use varying amounts of CPU and GPU. The less powerful of one you have the more it is utilized.

It is.

GPU is made to be used at 95-100%, not the CPU.

GPU operates at whatever the game needs. ..or whatever it can because of bottlenecking somewhere else. Its not made to be operating at any utilization and can operate anywhere form 1% to 100%. Games vary.

[Viper]

Originally posted by Hardware:

Originally posted by Viper:

lol..Its not a probem. Only people who know nothing about PCs think it is. Games use varying amounts of CPU and GPU. The less powerful of one you have the more it is utilized.

It is.

GPU is made to be used at 95-100%, not the CPU. 100% CPU for hours is not healthy.

And 100% damages the CPU in no way whatsoever. There are no moving parts to wear out. As long as you have adequate cooling it makes absolutely no difference. Only temps over time can in a minor way degrade the CPU and wear it out over time( ( 90C+ ) . And very very high temps will completelly destroy it. Use does nothing to it. Its just electrons moving back and forth in silicon which is basically rock or sand. And electic force frees electrons from the molecules in the silcon which are then pushed by that force. Its like water flowing in a way.

[Jelly Croissant]

I have an i7-7700k CPU sorry about that

[Viper]

Originally posted by Jelly Croissant:

I have an i7-7700k CPU sorry about that

yes 4 cores. If you had an I7 8700 ( 6 cores ) you would see a lot less utilization.

[wagecuck]

Well your problem is using intel. Unfortunately, you got tricked by a very anti-consumerist company that sells 6 year old subpar technology at extreme prices. You need CPUs that have good multithreaded performance like Ryzen.

[Jelly Croissant]

Originally posted by Viper:

Originally posted by Jelly Croissant:

I have an i7-7700k CPU sorry about that

yes 4 cores. If you had an I7 8700 ( 6 cores ) you would see a lot less utilization.

Idk seems weird this is the only game that does that.

[Xariot]

Originally posted by Hardware:

100% CPU for hours is not healthy.

Uhh... no. 100% CPU is perfectly fine for the "health" of the CPU. If your cooling is insufficient to handle that kind of workload then you will run too hot and thermal throttle. So that's also pretty bad for performance.

However, even if sufficient cooling 100% CPU will generally cause bad gaming performance due to bottleneck.

[alexwise]

Originally posted by Hardware:

GPU is made to be used at 95-100%, not the CPU. 100% CPU for hours is not healthy.

Cringe