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Vendon Jul 2, 2024 @ 1:54am
90% CPU usage
Hello, am I just the only one having 70-90% CPU usage? Maybe I am having some weird settings or is this a bug ? I am running I7 6700K game is running everything at lowest settings.
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Gias Jul 12, 2024 @ 5:56am 
Set everything to minimum at 1280x760 res fps capped to 30 and it still drives cpu over 60%. It literally doesnt matter how low you set visuals. Game always abuses CPU. And its even crazier when you compare it to warframe where 120fps (no framegen cheating) causes less load than this game at 2000 graphic settings.

Some people blame UE5 but my other UE5 games dont cause this either.
Syad Jul 12, 2024 @ 6:14am 
2014: people complain their multicore cpus aren't being utilized
2024: people complain their multicore cpus are being utilized
Frieren Jul 12, 2024 @ 6:17am 
1070 Nvidia, all setting on High, using 60 CPU and 77 Memory.
Gias Jul 12, 2024 @ 6:21am 
Originally posted by Syad:
2014: people complain their multicore cpus aren't being utilized
2024: people complain their multicore cpus are being utilized

Using all cores should lead to lower use% / core not 90% on every core.... The whole point was to make it efficient not waste more power for nothing.
Syad Jul 12, 2024 @ 6:43am 
Originally posted by Gias:
Using all cores should lead to lower use% / core not 90% on every core.... The whole point was to make it efficient not waste more power for nothing.
Why do you assume there is only enough work for one core in the game? This doesn't make sense. We have multicored cpus to do more work, for example shader compiling. Software utilizing hardware to 100% is a good thing and means you didn't waste your money buying it.
Kiriai Jul 12, 2024 @ 6:44am 
....LOL. Do all of you with this issue, have Intel CPU? I have a Ryzen 9 and my average cpu usage in game is 40%. It never peaks and havent seen it close to 50. Sure my cpu is powerful but...the cpu utilization is basicly the same in most games i play.

Some may need to be asked this...but do you have unnecessary software running at the same time? Are you sure your CPU is powerful enough to fully utilize the GPU? Depending on your activity online, are you sure you have no malware or other crap like that, which steals system resources? Are you sure the graphical settings are right for your computers specifications?

I have all graphics settings on high, with DLSS for quality. With a 2560x1080 resolution.

My GPU is a 3070TI. It occasionally peak to 100% which makes my game stutter for a second or two. It usually stay between 75-95% usage with a framerate between 70 and 90.

In addition i have a bunch of software runing at the same time, including my browser with a dusin tabs open.
Vendon Jul 12, 2024 @ 6:48am 
Been playing for so many years and max CPU usage in a game I mostly had, was around 7 GB and and just some small %. I am shocked that people are talking about 40% usage as being normal. More than 20% for one game is definitly not normal and never was.
Jhadious Jul 12, 2024 @ 6:58am 
Originally posted by Syko:
It’s weird because I played the betas and the game played flawlessly. Now on release I’m getting “out of video memory” while compiling shaders, CPU spikes to 100, and the game keeps crashing. (3090 24GB VRAM with 64GB DDR5 ram, i9-13900k on a Z790mobo).

yeah ran amazing in beta for me as well, now it just runs like garbage, when doing the waves ops i can get locked up when everything spawns, even dropped my settings to low and it'll still lock up for a couple seconds when the "mass" waves come in. i dunno what they changed but my pc hates it.
Gias Jul 12, 2024 @ 7:14am 
Originally posted by Syad:
Why do you assume there is only enough work for one core in the game? This doesn't make sense.

Because other games dont need to run at 90% and this game is an outlier on the bad end.

I'm buying the newest hardware not to heat my room wasting processing power but to keep fans silent running at low load. Instead we get devs using it as an opportunity to write ♥♥♥♥♥♥ code running badly. If you think about it our computers got much faster but even simple office software runs just as bad as decades ago. Why? Garbage code. In gaming instead of getting better performance from new tech like framegen you merely have worse optimized games hiding behind framegen&dlss ending in zero benefits at your end. You could write an entire doctor thesis on the crimes against performance committed by modern developers. Consumers need to praise the good ones and berate the bad ones because otherwise there is zero motivation to address this.
kenchiza Jul 12, 2024 @ 8:10am 
5600xamd 48%
omegazeda Jul 12, 2024 @ 8:16am 
100% cpu usage will make it stutter! 70 to 90 or 60 to 90(depending on CPU) is normal for a modern game on modern cpu. Here's example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW4HjWF_wYU start at 2:03
I personally think that the max should 90% to leave some breathing room for everything else.
Last edited by omegazeda; Jul 12, 2024 @ 8:21am
LizBlizz Jul 12, 2024 @ 8:21am 
Originally posted by Kiriai:
....LOL. Do all of you with this issue, have Intel CPU? I have a Ryzen 9 and my average cpu usage in game is 40%. It never peaks and havent seen it close to 50. Sure my cpu is powerful but...the cpu utilization is basicly the same in most games i play.

Some may need to be asked this...but do you have unnecessary software running at the same time? Are you sure your CPU is powerful enough to fully utilize the GPU? Depending on your activity online, are you sure you have no malware or other crap like that, which steals system resources? Are you sure the graphical settings are right for your computers specifications?

I have all graphics settings on high, with DLSS for quality. With a 2560x1080 resolution.

My GPU is a 3070TI. It occasionally peak to 100% which makes my game stutter for a second or two. It usually stay between 75-95% usage with a framerate between 70 and 90.

In addition i have a bunch of software runing at the same time, including my browser with a dusin tabs open.
What a worthless reply, if you want to jack off don't do it on a random Steam Discussions thread.
Jhadious Jul 12, 2024 @ 8:33am 
Originally posted by Kiriai:
....LOL. Do all of you with this issue, have Intel CPU? I have a Ryzen 9 and my average cpu usage in game is 40%. It never peaks and havent seen it close to 50. Sure my cpu is powerful but...the cpu utilization is basicly the same in most games i play.

Some may need to be asked this...but do you have unnecessary software running at the same time? Are you sure your CPU is powerful enough to fully utilize the GPU? Depending on your activity online, are you sure you have no malware or other crap like that, which steals system resources? Are you sure the graphical settings are right for your computers specifications?

I have all graphics settings on high, with DLSS for quality. With a 2560x1080 resolution.

My GPU is a 3070TI. It occasionally peak to 100% which makes my game stutter for a second or two. It usually stay between 75-95% usage with a framerate between 70 and 90.

In addition i have a bunch of software runing at the same time, including my browser with a dusin tabs open.


LOL no, i have a Ryzen 7, and the same gpu as you. and i dunno what dusin is.
Syad Jul 12, 2024 @ 9:05am 
Originally posted by Gias:
Because other games dont need to run at 90% and this game is an outlier on the bad end.
Modern games use more resources than older games. This is called progress, not a conspiracy.


Originally posted by Gias:
I'm buying the newest hardware not to heat my room wasting processing power but to keep fans silent running at low load.
CPU utilization has nothing to do with heat. If you want to limit heat, limit input power. CPUs already do it by themselves, Intel's default limit is 125W. And laptops sit around 50W. Set it to 30W and you will get by with passive cooling. There, problem solved.

What you are attempting to do is to buy 32 cars for 32 people and then only allow to use one of them, just so the "cars utilization" number looks low 🤦😕 and then complain about inefficiency of modern society.
Last edited by Syad; Jul 12, 2024 @ 9:08am
Kiriai Jul 12, 2024 @ 1:05pm 
Originally posted by LizBlizz:
Originally posted by Kiriai:
....LOL. Do all of you with this issue, have Intel CPU? I have a Ryzen 9 and my average cpu usage in game is 40%. It never peaks and havent seen it close to 50. Sure my cpu is powerful but...the cpu utilization is basicly the same in most games i play.

Some may need to be asked this...but do you have unnecessary software running at the same time? Are you sure your CPU is powerful enough to fully utilize the GPU? Depending on your activity online, are you sure you have no malware or other crap like that, which steals system resources? Are you sure the graphical settings are right for your computers specifications?

I have all graphics settings on high, with DLSS for quality. With a 2560x1080 resolution.

My GPU is a 3070TI. It occasionally peak to 100% which makes my game stutter for a second or two. It usually stay between 75-95% usage with a framerate between 70 and 90.

In addition i have a bunch of software runing at the same time, including my browser with a dusin tabs open.
What a worthless reply, if you want to jack off don't do it on a random Steam Discussions thread.

The reply is worthless for you.

For everyone else.
The three most common reason why CPU are heavily used or spike in a game, is if the CPU is to old or starting to, other software running at the same time and or malware/viruses/etc, or you are playing a simulation game that primarily uses the CPU for simulating the game. Like Cities Skyline. Which can max out the most powerful CPUs.

Also if your CPU is to weak/old for your graphics card, the CPU will become a bottleneck and will affect your system performance. And at last. Some games are made to run well on single core and other games on multicore. I assume this game is made to run well on multicore.

Sure the game have bugs and not exactly super optimized. But I don't se CPU issues. I see GPU issues. I see badly optimized graphics. In the title screen (as of writing) for example the game runs steadily at 25% CPU and a crazy 99% GPU for no reason.

while playing, my CPU is average 40% with a 5% pluss/minus deviation. While my graphics card is randomly spiking to 100% and freezes the image for 1-3 seconds. This is similar to my CPU and GPU usage in Cyberpunk 2077. where the difference is that half my graphics settings are ultra.

And here is another thing.
VENDONS CPU for example is a i7-6700K. This CPU is from Q3'2015. Thats over 9 years ago. Its a grandpa. This CPU is so old that there are newer Intel i5 CPUs that are more powerfuil. The i7-14700K, which is the 2023 version is twice as powerful as the i7-6700K.

And then the terms minimum and recommended requirements. As long as the CPU can run a software+operating system and it functions, it is within the recommended spec. Dont know what the avg is on VENDONS cpu. But 70-90% CPU usage is indeed within recomended, and therefore nothing abnormal. Even if the settings are on the lowest.
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Date Posted: Jul 2, 2024 @ 1:54am
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