Massive cpu usage

[Ebolanation]

Something is absolutely bonkers. Prior to the servers going down for hours the game played phenomenal. Running on high with NO issues. Now every load screen it prepares shaders and my cpu jumps to 100% usage. Someone screwed the pooch on this. No choice but to play on ps5 at this point. BTW i dropped everything to low and its still terrible. Once the shaders are done loading everything runs great until the next load screen. Before the teh nerds come at me saying "POST UR CPU" this isn't just me its happening to.

Gotta edit: While playing I have no fps drops and no odd temp issues. This is ONLY affecting shader comp. Yeah I cleared my nvdia cache.

*********I fixed my issue. I threw my nvdia shader cache size to unlimited. I doub't this will help all but it fixed my problem. Wild. If you scroll down you will see i have multiple systems that were tested..nvidia shader cache control panal set to unlimited and dlss balanced*****

[Tiearian]

It's working the exact same as it did for me before. Same framerate, and shaders are only done once upon starting the game up. CPU only under 22% load while in game running around.
Try Restarting(not shutting down, if you absolutely have to choose shutdown instead of restart, then Hold-Shift while you click the shutdown button, this will include what is done when you choose restart, but instead shut the computer down) your computer to clear Nvidia shader cache. Thats probably the issue. As you likely got kicked out of the game several times yesterday due to the server issues, a small corruption likely formed, or it didn't properly get cleared on exit.

PS: So many doom say'ers, that just don't understand UE5 is a next gen engine, that doesn't work that well on current hardware. When the next GPU's, and CPU generations come out, UE5 will run much better.

[ZunZunRun]

I only have shaders compilation when I start the game. What size is your shader cache ?

[IRISHANARCHY]

any official legit info on the game being essential malware or not i see lots of people saying it and it isn't

[Nekochan]

Originally posted by IRISHANARCHY:

any official legit info on the game being essential malware or not i see lots of people saying it and it isn't

Most people are not very technical and should be better off using consoles.

[Ebolanation]

Originally posted by Nekochan:

Originally posted by IRISHANARCHY:

any official legit info on the game being essential malware or not i see lots of people saying it and it isn't

Most people are not very technical and should be better off using consoles.

That is not true at all man. It is not rocket science to understand this stuff. There are plenty of people who all of a sudden have issues and others who do not. I happen to be one that it was running great and then all of a sudden the shader load screens are an issue. This is not a case of user error on my side. It is something that changed and now I have an issue.

fixed by setting my nvidia cache to unlimited
now back to running completely fine

[Ebolanation]

Originally posted by IRISHANARCHY:

any official legit info on the game being essential malware or not i see lots of people saying it and it isn't

Nah I have not seen anything truthful about that. Mainly people making assumptions that its a crypto miner, and I do not believe that at all.

[semeku]

Post your PC specs. Period.
It's "normal" for the game to use 100% of your CPU when starting the game to build shaders and it will do so again if you update your GPU drivers.

I'm running on older hardware i7-10700k and RTX3080TI and I'm not having issues with 100% CPU use. Just bad fps due to bad optimization.

[brunolm]

Originally posted by Ebola:

Something is absolutely bonkers. Prior to the servers going down for hours the game played phenomenal. Running on high with NO issues. Now every load screen it prepares shaders and my cpu jumps to 100% usage. Someone screwed the pooch on this. No choice but to play on ps5 at this point. BTW i dropped everything to low and its still terrible. Once the shaders are done loading everything runs great until the next load screen. Before the teh nerds come at me saying "POST UR CPU" this isn't just me its happening to.

> BTW i dropped everything to low and its still terrible.

actually put everything on ULTRA. I found it better that way. (so it uses more GPU than CPU)

Yeah, constant 100% CPU usage on a specific core. The game absolutely needs to be optimized.

Enable NVidia DSLL if you have it too

[Ebolanation]

Originally posted by Zun:

I only have shaders compilation when I start the game. What size is your shader cache ?

Would you possibly know what would cause there to be an issue when before there was not? I legitimately am curious. Same crap happened with Diablo 4 for me. By the numbers there should not have been an issue but there was and then poof it worked . It went from running like dog water to running fantastic. I do believe this is something on their end. Clearly, some are not going to see any problems. Thats just how the pc master race works lol. I am currently playing with increasing the size to see what setting works better.

[JohnMiller92]

modern game dev right here. 100% cpu usage and 20 fps

i think we peaked. might want to go back

[Ebolanation]

Originally posted by brunolm (神 Knx):

Originally posted by Ebola:

Something is absolutely bonkers. Prior to the servers going down for hours the game played phenomenal. Running on high with NO issues. Now every load screen it prepares shaders and my cpu jumps to 100% usage. Someone screwed the pooch on this. No choice but to play on ps5 at this point. BTW i dropped everything to low and its still terrible. Once the shaders are done loading everything runs great until the next load screen. Before the teh nerds come at me saying "POST UR CPU" this isn't just me its happening to.

> BTW i dropped everything to low and its still terrible.

actually put everything on ULTRA. I found it better that way. (so it uses more GPU than CPU)

Yeah, constant 100% CPU usage on a specific core. The game absolutely needs to be optimized.

Enable NVidia DSLL if you have it too

I did bro and it helped a tad. DLSS I mean.

[Ebolanation]

Originally posted by Tiearian:

It's working the exact same as it did for me before. Same framerate, and shaders are only done once upon starting the game up. CPU only under 22% load while in game running around.
Try Restarting(not shutting down, if you absolutely have to choose shutdown instead of restart, then Hold-Shift while you click the shutdown button, this will include what is done when you choose restart, but instead shut the computer down) your computer to clear Nvidia shader cache. Thats probably the issue. As you likely got kicked out of the game several times yesterday due to the server issues, a small corruption likely formed, or it didn't properly get cleared on exit.

PS: So many doom say'ers, that just don't understand UE5 is a next gen engine, that doesn't work that well on current hardware. When the next GPU's, and CPU generations come out, UE5 will run much better.

Ehh I just think something needs to be worked out. WHat? No clue..but UE5 runs fine on my rig. I am in no way a doom say'er at all. Also, I never got kicked yet at all. Like I said it is only on the load screens. Game runs great in between.
ps: yeah did the shader cache clearing ...trying increasing it atm..testing that

***fixed by setting nvidia cache to unlimited

[Ebolanation]

Originally posted by JohnMiller92:

modern game dev right here. 100% cpu usage and 20 fps

i think we peaked. might want to go back

you have 20 fps? ouch. I am just showing issues on the shader comp. While I am playing its butter.

[Ebolanation]

Originally posted by semeku:

Post your PC specs. Period.
It's "normal" for the game to use 100% of your CPU when starting the game to build shaders and it will do so again if you update your GPU drivers.

I'm running on older hardware i7-10700k and RTX3080TI and I'm not having issues with 100% CPU use. Just bad fps due to bad optimization.

See I am not having fps issues at all. It is just the shader screens taking longer then before. Can you explain why something would be fine before and not after? Specs do not matter in that situation. Period. If something changed on their end and affected a large portion of the community then its their goof.

I fixed it by increasing the shader cache to unlimited.

[brunolm]

They absolutely did something wrong that's causing a single logical processor hit 100%. It has nothing to do with PC specs.

If people want to make the "PC specs" argument, here's the official steam page recommended settings:

Processor: Intel i7-7700K / AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600XT

How is a PC better than the trash in the recommended not being able to run things smoothly and has to hit 100% CPU usage?