CPU utilisation at 100%?!?!?

[SwagMaster]

So I'm sure this isn't anything new, but what gives? I don't have any other app running in the background and this game just eats up all of my cpu. I am running on a 3090 and an i9-10850k on 32gb of 3600 Ram and I feel like my PC will fry my room.

I've all forms of ray tracing off, so is there a setting that is just eating all of my resources? This game doesn't look good enough to completely destroy my resources like it is so I wonder what I am missing?

[Tali Zorah N7]

Just a bad port and awful optimization + Denuvo... I got a 4080 and can't play more than 30-40 fps, same performance on super low than super high with all ray tracing on. As usual they don't care about PC players, I don't even know if a patch can fix this...

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1080p?

[Foulcher]

Weird my CPU usage is very low with a i9 9900k and 4090
GPU around 96-99%

[SwagMaster]

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Weird my CPU usage is very low with a i9 9900k and 4090
GPU around 96-99%

Funnily enough my GPU is not really having issues and is chilling I can run it at 80 to 100 frames based on the benchmak tool at 1440p with all the bells and whistles on... but that cpu utilisation is just going to reduce my pc health too much.

[SwagMaster]

Originally posted by Tali Zorah N7:

Just a bad port and awful optimization + Denuvo... I got a 4080 and can't play more than 30-40 fps, same performance on super low than super high with all ray tracing on. As usual they don't care about PC players, I don't even know if a patch can fix this...

Yeah that kind of sucks. I am sure it's something stupid that is causing this issue. There is no way this was tested to any degree before it came out on PC cause all of their stations would have blown up.....

That said what I find odd is that I don't really have fps issues myself. I think for what I am running it on (1440p) it is more than fine but cpu just never leaving the 100% zone means that a hard crash that may or may not brick my device is inevitable and I can't really afford to swap cpu's like bread.

[FrontlinerDelta]

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Weird my CPU usage is very low with a i9 9900k and 4090
GPU around 96-99%

That is interesting. 9700k here but also a 4090, CPU maxed out 100% on all cores, 4090 sitting at 30% (at 4k no less...). Game manages to stay close to 60 in the open world zones but in the city it can tank down to as low as 25, though it averages probably 45.

Toggling ray tracing and most other settings seem to not affect this CPU bottleneck at all for me either (tried going 1440p, no change either). Very, very weird. This doesn't happen in games like Cyberpunk or Darktide. Cyberpunk I'm getting 100% GPU utilization, same in Darktide and getting 60FPS at 4k in CP and over 140 FPS in Darktide (due to DLSS 3).

I have NO idea why this game is maxing my CPU, nothing else ever has. Even the CPU heavy titles (Darktide, Total War for example).

[Astariol]

Originally posted by FrontlinerDelta:

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Weird my CPU usage is very low with a i9 9900k and 4090
GPU around 96-99%

That is interesting. 9700k here... blah blah
blah blah

There's your problem. You paired a $1800 GPU with a mid-tier CPU from like five years ago.

[Renka]

it is weird that a modern enough cpu who have 10 cores and 20threads got this kind of problem, it dosnt make any sense

on my 12900k (4 more threads but it is from the weak cores) i only get 70-74% at most when cpu bottlenect so there is 0 logic

[SwagMaster]

Originally posted by Astariol:

Originally posted by FrontlinerDelta:

That is interesting. 9700k here... blah blah
blah blah

There's your problem. You paired a $1800 GPU with a mid-tier CPU from like five years ago.

Doesn't explain the core issue of the cpu's getting maxed out. You can be obnoxious for whatever reason, but all kinds of cpu's across the board are just getting bombed by this game and it doesn't make sense. I'd argue it doesn't look better than Cyberpunk and has less raytracing in it so where is this ridiculous recourse suck?

[SwagMaster]

Originally posted by Renka:

it is weird that a modern enough cpu who have 10 cores and 20threads got this kind of problem, it dosnt make any sense

on my 12900k (4 more threads but it is from the weak cores) i only get 70-74% at most when cpu bottlenect so there is 0 logic

It appears to be somewhat of a common problem across all specs . If anything it'd be good to keep this post alive to log all the people having this problem and if a solutions is found outside a patch from mods or devs.

[Mentle]

i5-12600k also having this issue. Game turns my PC into a space heater.

[FrontlinerDelta]

Originally posted by Astariol:

Originally posted by FrontlinerDelta:

That is interesting. 9700k here... blah blah
blah blah

There's your problem. You paired a $1800 GPU with a mid-tier CPU from like five years ago.

Second person to tell me this and guess what? It's worked wonders in literally everything else because I was GPU bottlenecked in everything else...so a console port with mid tier visuals is somehow maxing out a CPU that has never been bottlenecked in any modern PC game. Ok.

I swear you people are incapable of reading...or are just dumb as ♥♥♥♥.

[es.Iiden]

Originally posted by FrontlinerDelta:

Originally posted by Foulcher:

Weird my CPU usage is very low with a i9 9900k and 4090
GPU around 96-99%

That is interesting. 9700k here but also a 4090, CPU maxed out 100% on all cores, 4090 sitting at 30% (at 4k no less...). Game manages to stay close to 60 in the open world zones but in the city it can tank down to as low as 25, though it averages probably 45.

Toggling ray tracing and most other settings seem to not affect this CPU bottleneck at all for me either (tried going 1440p, no change either). Very, very weird. This doesn't happen in games like Cyberpunk or Darktide. Cyberpunk I'm getting 100% GPU utilization, same in Darktide and getting 60FPS at 4k in CP and over 140 FPS in Darktide (due to DLSS 3).

I have NO idea why this game is maxing my CPU, nothing else ever has. Even the CPU heavy titles (Darktide, Total War for example).

Youre getting maxed out CPU? Highest usage ive seen in my rig is 6% on a 5900x and for whatever stupid reason my GPU, RTX 4090, is at 50-60 utilization in the open world. Its ROUGH.

[Kittierum]

i9-10900k
32gig ram
3090
100% cpu usage
30% gpu
system shut down twice once while in game and once when i clicked settings menu watched my temps never exceeded 70'c cpu or gpu. Only game to ever cause this.

[Taran Tatsuuchi]

Welp, I haven't gotten the game, but the demo has my 5800x3d at between 30~40% while playing it...