100% cpu usage during cutscenes

[dessnr]

The game itself is running as smooth as silk but as soon as it hits a cut scene, it just dies. I'm talking less than 1 frame a second sometimes. You cannot watch the cut scenes at all. The CPU maxes out big time. You hear what they are saying in a stutter like fashion, but then the cut scene has to catch up after it has frozen for 10 or more seconds.

Does anybody have any ideas? It would be much appreciated because I enjoy cut scenes in a game. It's kind of like a reward after each level you complete.

[dessnr]

I'm going to keep bumping this until I get an honest answer to an honest question. And I am talking to the Devs here. Or, like so many other Devs, do they think themselves above us customer plebeians?

[RobZapp88]

what graphics card are you running and what's your CPU and cooler set up?

[dessnr]

GTX 1650 Super. It runs everything else beautifully. Red Dead Redemption 2 etc... It even runs this game beautifully, but it's the CPU maxing out during cut scenes only. So badly the whole game freezes and then comes back after you've missed most of the cut scene.

My CPU is the i5-6500 3.20 GHZ per core. Quad core. My cooling systems are fans throughout the case, on the CPU and the 1650 has two fans. It all seems to be staying cool enough even when the CPU maxes out. It's just running on empty when it comes to CPU time during cut scenes. Very annoying.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

[RobZapp88]

Originally posted by dessnr:

GTX 1650 Super. It runs everything else beautifully. Red Dead Redemption 2 etc... It even runs this game beautifully, but it's the CPU maxing out during cut scenes only. So badly the whole game freezes and then comes back after you've missed most of the cut scene.

My CPU is the i5-6500 3.20 GHZ per core. Quad core. My cooling systems are fans throughout the case, on the CPU and the 1650 has two fans. It all seems to be staying cool enough even when the CPU maxes out. It's just running on empty when it comes to CPU time during cut scenes. Very annoying.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Interesting....I've never heard of the i5-6500 just going to full load on one game and making it freeze completely. I would try lowering the graphics on the game and monitoring your temps. Any other software running while playing the game?

On mine, i have the 1660 ti super-clocked and the full load goes to the graphics card.

[dessnr]

Originally posted by RobZapp88:

Originally posted by dessnr:

GTX 1650 Super. It runs everything else beautifully. Red Dead Redemption 2 etc... It even runs this game beautifully, but it's the CPU maxing out during cut scenes only. So badly the whole game freezes and then comes back after you've missed most of the cut scene.

My CPU is the i5-6500 3.20 GHZ per core. Quad core. My cooling systems are fans throughout the case, on the CPU and the 1650 has two fans. It all seems to be staying cool enough even when the CPU maxes out. It's just running on empty when it comes to CPU time during cut scenes. Very annoying.

Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Interesting....I've never heard of the i5-6500 just going to full load on one game and making it freeze completely. I would try lowering the graphics on the game and monitoring your temps. Any other software running while playing the game?

On mine, i have the 1660 ti super-clocked and the full load goes to the graphics card.

Yeah I did try that. I lowered the graphics as much as possible just to test, same result. It's not the frame rate that is suffering, it's the CPU. Not the GPU. The CPU just maxes out on every cut scene.

[PEEBOY]

The game loads the next level on cut scenes? I dont remember, havent played sp in a while

[JUMPYWIZARD]

I have the same problem wtih SP cut scenes but MP runs like a dream

[RobZapp88]

Originally posted by dessnr:

Originally posted by RobZapp88:

Interesting....I've never heard of the i5-6500 just going to full load on one game and making it freeze completely. I would try lowering the graphics on the game and monitoring your temps. Any other software running while playing the game?

On mine, i have the 1660 ti super-clocked and the full load goes to the graphics card.

Yeah I did try that. I lowered the graphics as much as possible just to test, same result. It's not the frame rate that is suffering, it's the CPU. Not the GPU. The CPU just maxes out on every cut scene.

I would look into upgrading your CPU then. Intel is getting cheaper...if you can find any of the processors anywhere at a good price

[dessnr]

Originally posted by RobZapp88:

Originally posted by dessnr:

Yeah I did try that. I lowered the graphics as much as possible just to test, same result. It's not the frame rate that is suffering, it's the CPU. Not the GPU. The CPU just maxes out on every cut scene.

I would look into upgrading your CPU then. Intel is getting cheaper...if you can find any of the processors anywhere at a good price

I did think about it, but people are saying that the i5-6500 is a nice and fast CPU. It has 4, 3.2ghz cores which ain't too shabby. And since no other game is suffering, including Red Dead II, I ain't about to upgrade it for just one game unless that game is Cyberpunk 2077.

[RobZapp88]

Originally posted by dessnr:

Originally posted by RobZapp88:

I would look into upgrading your CPU then. Intel is getting cheaper...if you can find any of the processors anywhere at a good price

I did think about it, but people are saying that the i5-6500 is a nice and fast CPU. It has 4, 3.2ghz cores which ain't too shabby. And since no other game is suffering, including Red Dead II, I ain't about to upgrade it for just one game unless that game is Cyberpunk 2077.

ok, then play away. If it's only the cut scenes then play the game for what it is. You can always Youtube the cut scenes, lol

[dessnr]

Originally posted by RobZapp88:

Originally posted by dessnr:

I did think about it, but people are saying that the i5-6500 is a nice and fast CPU. It has 4, 3.2ghz cores which ain't too shabby. And since no other game is suffering, including Red Dead II, I ain't about to upgrade it for just one game unless that game is Cyberpunk 2077.

ok, then play away. If it's only the cut scenes then play the game for what it is. You can always Youtube the cut scenes, lol

Very true! Cheers for the help mate.

[RobZapp88]

Skol!

[LEON HEEEEEELP!@!!!111]

Man, I don't know how much this is gonna help or if it's gonna help at all, but I'm posting this outta desperation

I run an i7 7700 with aftermarket cooler and paste and an RX 580 and my GPU reaches 89º while my CPU gets to 85º ish, and it only happens in this game too for some reason. I've tried messing with the settings and I've set a very aggressive fan curve with Afterburner and Command Center and nothing will keep the temps down. ALL my fans run at 100% speed and I dunno wtf to do anymore.

[dessnr]

Originally posted by CA$INO MAFIA 666:

Man, I don't know how much this is gonna help or if it's gonna help at all, but I'm posting this outta desperation

I run an i7 7700 with aftermarket cooler and paste and an RX 580 and my GPU reaches 89º while my CPU gets to 85º ish, and it only happens in this game too for some reason. I've tried messing with the settings and I've set a very aggressive fan curve with Afterburner and Command Center and nothing will keep the temps down. ALL my fans run at 100% speed and I dunno wtf to do anymore.

Yeah I know what you're saying. On the most part the game itself runs OK for me. When I say "on the most part", I mean that it occasionally gets the jitters up or just freezes and I sit there and twiddle my thumbs for up to 10 secs before the game comes back. And it's not hard disk related because there is literally no hd activity during this time. The cut scenes are the worst though. I could cook an egg on my CPU when the cut scenes are running and yet, they run like crap. You'd think since the cut scenes steal so much CPU time that they'd be running as smooth as silk.

EA needs to get onto the devs about that crap because you'd think after all this time, something would have been done about it. In the meantime, I feel your pain.

[mythic]

same here