[BUG] 100% CPU usage? Really?! Why?

[Chris]

Why does the game have nearly 100% CPU usage?? Intel Core i9-10980XE.

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[NoAimy]

for me its not the CPU, i#m playin with less frames and high GPU-Usage, before the Update the game was smooth running.

[sabot]

I did not play the game before the update, so I can´t say if it has been like this before. My game frequently crashes after 5-10 minutes of gameplay. At first I thought it was GPU related as well, because my 2080 Super Amp (which is good enough to play MS Flight Sim on Ultra settings) is at 90-95% usage all the time.

But yesterday I actually found out the actual reason why it´s crashing. The game "randomly" spikes to 100% CPU usage for longer periods of time. This ramps up the CPU Temp and the computer shuts down when it gets too hot. I downloaded a program called core temp to monitor my CPU temperatures during those spikes. During the shorter spikes CPU temp would go up to 80°-90° C before starting to cool down again. But the longer spikes actually drove my CPU temp to 100° which caused my system to shut down to prevent damage.

Not only is it unplayable because of the frequent crashes, but it could actually damage your computer´s CPU. Hope this gets fixed soon, otherwise this game is not worth the risk to my computer.

[Legacyfire]

Originally posted by sabot:

I did not play the game before the update, so I can´t say if it has been like this before.

It was.

I'm kinda pissed steam wont let me refund because I was "over the 2 hour mark." I really don't see how that time limit applies when the game is so poorly coded that it causes physical damage to the system.

[sabot]

Same. I also tried to refund but was denied. Going to shelve it for now while hoping it gets optimized at some point in the future, although reading all the posts here doesn't give me a lot of hope for that. But until then it's definitely not worth risking to kill my CPU over it. Going to play a less demanding game now, like MS Flight Sim or something.

[Chris]

Thanks for your posts. At least I'm not the only one affected by this.

[Alex772070]

then your cpu is broken, because when i play this on highest setting, mine is at maximum 20-30 percent. (Ryzen 7 5800x)

[sabot]

Originally posted by Alex772070:

then your cpu is broken, because when i play this on highest setting, mine is at maximum 20-30 percent. (Ryzen 7 5800x)

Seems very unlikely that the CPU (i9 9900k) is only broken for this one game, but works fine in all the others... Probably just very poor optimization for Intel CPUs if your AMD doesn´t seem to have the same problems as we do. Also 90+% GPU usage for this game on a 2080 Super Amp Extreme is waaaay too much, even at the highest settings. They just did a very poor job on optimization, and seemingly they don´t even bother to test their patches before releasing. Otherwise the "loading games with depleted energy" bug would never have been released like that.

Some people say that it´s ok because it´s still in pre-release, but that´s not true. I bought this game as a fully released game for around 20$ and it´s unplayable as of now. Not going to buy anything from this developer anymore.

Edit: Just realised that the OP has a 3090 running at 71% with 60 FPS. That`s a joke. Maybe they are mining bitcoin with our GPU´s?

[Chris]

@Alex772070
The behavior only occurs in this game, so my CPU is fine.

@sabot
That's exactly what I've been asking myself about mining.

[Chris]

Originally posted by NoAimy:

for me its not the CPU, i#m playin with less frames and high GPU-Usage, before the Update the game was smooth running.

True is also too much. 71% on my 3090 is way too much.
What GPU do you have?

[NoAimy]

i've checked my Taskmanager too:
CPU usage is from 30 up to 60% (AMD Ryzen 9 5900X)
GPU usage is from 90 to 95% (RTX 3080)

[HerrOtter]

Originally posted by Chris:

@Alex772070
The behavior only occurs in this game, so my CPU is fine.

@sabot
That's exactly what I've been asking myself about mining.

If you google "Internet Cafe Simulator 2 mining in background" you will get only results for MINING BITCOIN IN GAME. What a genius move by the developers.
I thought it was my CPU that would result in the high CPU usage, it is a i5 6600, lol.

I think something shady is going on with this game....

[Alistair]

Glad I’m not the only one having this issue, has anyone found a fix for this? or the cause of the high resource demand?

[Chris]

Unfortunately no, at least I haven't found a solution on the internet yet.
I uninstalled the game because nobody cares. Neither the developer nor Steam Support.

[Anakin Sandwalker]

Cheesecake dev says to turn on Vsync but That makes it worse lol even though I need Vysnc on bc of stuttering.
Also have intel processor. Im able to play most games at 1440P 60fps

[Alistair]

So I've done some testing, for the GPU usage I got it to be at 25%-35% on a RTX 2080 ti, by setting graphics to low, Vsync off, shadows off and capping the FPS at 30, there is an issue where when relaunching the game, you need to open the settings after loading in for the FPS cap to work again. As for the CPU usage it seems to really just be very poor AI optimisation, when I pause during the spikes of ~70% usage, it drops to ~20% again, for anyone wondering the CPU is I7 11700K with no oc.