Massive CPU spikes when loading.

[Elrond Hubbard]

Whenever I launch the game or load a new map, my CPU spikes to almost 100% and temp reaches 85+. Fan spins like crazy trying to keep it cool. Only lasts for a few seconds, but I'm worried it's going to reduce the lifespan of my CPU or fan. Does this happen to anyone else? Is there a setting I can change to prevent it?

[AsianGirlLover]

What are your specs

[Elrond Hubbard]

Originally posted by AsianGirlLover:

What are your specs

i7-4790k
GTX 1070
16GB RAM

[AsianGirlLover]

Weird.

Mine are almost exactly the same as you, and I don’t have this issue

[zetSuBou-Billy]

If your cpu's temp hits 85+ after a couple seconds, that's not normal, it's a hardware issue.
Your heatsink is either loose, or dusty, or needs some thermal paste.

[Rings]

Actually this is completely normal and has been a thing for a long time. The game compiles shaders each time you boot, especially when you have a lot of mods. My CPU maxes at 100% as well on each boot.

[Elrond Hubbard]

Originally posted by zetSuBou-Billy:

If your cpu's temp hits 85+ after a couple seconds, that's not normal, it's a hardware issue.
Your heatsink is either loose, or dusty, or needs some thermal paste.

My heatsink is properly secured and clean. I replace the thermal paste every 6 months. I play tons of games with far more demanding specs and never have temperature issues like this.

It's definitely a software issue. Have you monitored your CPU usage/temperature while playing? It's extremely brief, so you might not even know the spike is happening unless you have a graph running.

[Omoikane]

Do you have any other apps open? Like Mozilla or chrome? Many times these two eat power when running with games running. Sometimes it is your AV or a recording/streaming program.
My suggestion is to, if you have any other programs running shut them down and start the game.
That and Rings is right, certain or a lot of mods can spike cpu cycling, but your temp might be another program.

[f00b]

Mostly seems like bad cooling to me.

[Suros:/#]

Haswell/Devil's Canyon is one of Intel's worst offenders when it comes to their thermal paste under the heat spreader. That's why I've de-lidded and replaced the paste on every single one I've bought. As long as the temps aren't prolonged, you won't notice degradation of any significance. But yeah, maxing out the CPU just means it's working as effectively as possible.

[El-Neko]

Originally posted by Rings:

Actually this is completely normal and has been a thing for a long time. The game compiles shaders each time you boot, especially when you have a lot of mods. My CPU maxes at 100% as well on each boot.

Pretty much the answer right here... Theres other UE3 games I play that does this as well. Just give it a few seconds to load in the assists and game runs fine.

[Ferguson Darling]

Have the same issues on two different systems. The first is my desktop with i7 6850k Corsair H100i V2 AIO liquid cooler, 16gb DDR4 3200Mhz and GTX 1070 Ti. The second is my laptop, a Dell G3 15 with i5 8300H, 16gb DDR4 2666Mhz and GTX 1050 Ti. In both systems the game pushes the CPU temp above 90c and on the desktop it crashes when it hits 92c, while the laptop will hit 100c and not crash, but the performance is garbage. Oddly enough I tested on a 3rd system with an i7 7700k EVGA CLC 120 AIO liquid cooler 16gb DDR4 3200Mhz and tried multiple GPUs including a GTX 1080 and RTX 2080, and this system did not experience the spike in CPU temps or any performance issues, which has me stumped, as all three systems have unrelated hardware and software.

[Jowain]

Originally posted by zetSuBou-Billy:

If your cpu's temp hits 85+ after a couple seconds, that's not normal, it's a hardware issue.
Your heatsink is either loose, or dusty, or needs some thermal paste.

I use a NVIDIA GPU that can run several games as they should, yet this game opening several instances of this shader program and taxing the CPU to 100% everytime it loads a level is to be considered normal?

My PC is brand new, this is a Software issue on the developers part; I much rather have longer loadtimes or whatever the excuse of using the shader program is than having to replace an already NEW CPU for another CPU after the previous was fried due to the constant use of it to the extreme from this game.

Who the heck though this was a good idea?

[TemmieNeko]

Originally posted by Jowain:

Originally posted by zetSuBou-Billy:

If your cpu's temp hits 85+ after a couple seconds, that's not normal, it's a hardware issue.
Your heatsink is either loose, or dusty, or needs some thermal paste.

I use a NVIDIA GPU that can run several games as they should, yet this game opening several instances of this shader program and taxing the CPU to 100% everytime it loads a level is to be considered normal?

My PC is brand new, this is a Software issue on the developers part; I much rather have longer loadtimes or whatever the excuse of using the shader program is than having to replace an already NEW CPU for another CPU after the previous was fried due to the constant use of it to the extreme from this game.

Who the heck though this was a good idea?

the load times with mods before was unbearable, they didn't see it would cause any issues, clearly.
relax lol.

[Elrond Hubbard]

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

Originally posted by Jowain:

I use a NVIDIA GPU that can run several games as they should, yet this game opening several instances of this shader program and taxing the CPU to 100% everytime it loads a level is to be considered normal?

My PC is brand new, this is a Software issue on the developers part; I much rather have longer loadtimes or whatever the excuse of using the shader program is than having to replace an already NEW CPU for another CPU after the previous was fried due to the constant use of it to the extreme from this game.

Who the heck though this was a good idea?

the load times with mods before was unbearable, they didn't see it would cause any issues, clearly.
relax lol.

I didn't make this thread about modded installations of the game. This is what happens to my vanilla installation. It spikes CPU usage to 100% almost instantly and holds it there until the level has loaded. It will also do this for a few seconds any time you alt-tab in/out of the game. It is the only game in my 200+ gaame library that does this. It is not normal by any standard those kinds of extreme temperature fluctuations are indeed pretty bad for your chip.

[Suros:/#]

Originally posted by Jowain:

Originally posted by zetSuBou-Billy:

If your cpu's temp hits 85+ after a couple seconds, that's not normal, it's a hardware issue.
Your heatsink is either loose, or dusty, or needs some thermal paste.

I use a NVIDIA GPU that can run several games as they should, yet this game opening several instances of this shader program and taxing the CPU to 100% everytime it loads a level is to be considered normal?

My PC is brand new, this is a Software issue on the developers part; I much rather have longer loadtimes or whatever the excuse of using the shader program is than having to replace an already NEW CPU for another CPU after the previous was fried due to the constant use of it to the extreme from this game.

Who the heck though this was a good idea?

You clearly lack an understanding of computers if you think this is a problem. Every time your CPU performs ANY task, it maxes it out for at least an instant. Your monitors may not register this as they're not sampling the chip billions of times per second, but every program on your system will take as much processing power as it can get to perform tasks as fast as possible. If your system can't sustain maximum loads for a mere 30 seconds, that's a manufacturer issue with the thermal specs of the system. You can't fault a game dev for doing completely expected stuff.