100% CPU Usage

[Iggy Wolf]

So the game is causing the CPU to run at 100%, and my PC was heating up like crazy, that I was practically feeling the heat coming out of my case, warming up my leg. NONE of my other games have ever stressed the PC this much. ALL 4 cores were at 50 Celcius. My PC specs are as follows:

CPU: Intel i5 Skylake 6400 2.7 GHz
GPU Asus Strix Geforce GTX 970 OC VRAM 4 GB.
RAM: 16 GB
Windows 10 Home
The game shows that even with my settings maxed out, it only uses 2.7 of the 4 of VRAM. I have anti-aliasing completely turned off and resolution at only 1080P (1920x1080). I'd like to think that even if I don't necessarily meet the recommended requirments, I still meet the minimum and the requirements in between.

No, my GPU drivers are not updated to the newest ones but I don't see how that would affect CPU usage, especially since people mentioned it was a problem during the beta, and the game was able to run fine until I got to the farm and after destroying the artillery, is when the CPU maxed out. If it matters, my driver version is currently 376.09. I haven't updated since that driver for some reason broke Geforce Experience.

I know I can still get the newest ones of Nvidia's site though. I didn't update them in the interest of all my other games working and that people said some of the newer drivers broke other games for them. Even with lower drivers, the game should NOT be pushing the CPU to the max and overheating my cpu cores. I exited the game before it had time to overheat my entire PC. Overall, very disappointed with the launch.

While I don't have problems like other people getting the game to actually run, in-game wise, I'm not about to brick my PC just to play this game. Activision and Sledgehammer Games need to get their♥♥♥♥♥♥together and patch it. NO GAME should ever be able to max out the CPU. The graphics aren't THAT impressive or demanding. This actually might explain how some people got BSOD and their games crashed. They didn't realize the PC was being overstressed and it basically exited in order to throttle the CPU before it caused any serious damage.

[Zardas]

Your PC is already a brick if it can't handle running at 100% for any length of time, especially if not overclocked. But yeah, it needs to be fixed.

[Comrade Kemosabe]

1) 50c is not even remotely close to being considered hot to modern components. Add another 30c to that and then you'd have something worth being concerned about.

2) Any pc that actually shuts down or BSOD due to heat is not being properly cooled to begin with.

Even stock/OEM air coolers are capable of handling sustained 100% loads. Assuming the ambient air temp isn't unusually hot of course.

[Iggy Wolf]

It's not that it can't handle running it, it's that it wouldn't be HEALTHY for it to do so, since the GPU's temps kept going up. Eventually, it would have throttled and overheated the card. Same thing for the CPU. NO GAME should actually be making the PC work that hard. The card has 3 fans. My case has 2 case fans and one big heatsink and fan in the CPU.

It's not a big case but there's plenty of room for ventilation, which is why most of my other games rarely overheat the PC. At worst, they'll put the CPU usage at 70-80% but no more. Even then, the GPU doesn't utilize more than 50%. At least, it NEVER got hot enough that I could feel it warming my leg and the cores running at 50 Celcius and climbing.

[Iggy Wolf]

Correction. The Log for the GPU monitor shows that it DID manage to reach 80 C, which makes sense, since the card was being maxed out at 100% usage, with the memory clock maxed out and fan running at 100% duty. It was basically struggling just to keep itself cool. The case was hot enough that it felt like touching a hot stove, and my PSU was getting too hot as well.

Some SERIOUS optimization needs to be done because my resource monitor was showing that it was committing 11 GB of 16 GB RAM, and someone pointed out that the game does have a memory leak.

[child of the girth]

my GPU is idling at 55c right now.

I have 3 intake fans and 3 exhaust fans, my GPU has 3 fans on the cooler. I don't think my GPU even bothers turning on a third fan until it's 65+.

[Iggy Wolf]

Mine idle's at 46c. In fact, the fan doesn't even spin unless it gets to 60c and above. At max load, the log shows that the fan was spinning at 2400 RPMs! I can understand the CPU usage being at 100% since other people have pointed out that the game is currently CPU hungry, but the graphics aren't that demanding and my card technically meets the recommended settings. Like I said, doesn't even use all the VRAM (doesn't even hit 3.5 which would slow it down). Although to be fair, I decided to look at the logs of all my other game times and it showed the same results.

Apparently, these numbers are the "Target" numbers of my GPU. What my GPU SHOULD be getting when being fully utilized. I was after all running Crysis 3 as well with the previous log yesterday, showing the same numbers. Difference is, the CPU was not being pushed to 100%, causing the cores to overheat as well. So much heat buildup from the CPU AND GPU is what started to worry me. The card on its own heats up, but always throttles down if necesssary. It never goes ABOVE the target rate.

Here's the log file settings: GPU Temperature,C GPU Usage,% VID Usage,% FB Usage,% GPU Fan duty,% GPU Fan Speed,RPM GPU Clock,MHz Memory Clock,MHz Memory Usage,MB Power Target status, % GPU Voltage,mV
Max/time 80.0 Celcius /02:28:49 99.0/02:06:33 4.0/04:04:29 57.0/02:23:04 79.0/02:37:15 2403.0/02:59:27 1329.0/02:06:33 7012.0/21:39:07 4069.0/02:09:43 101.0/02:22:16 1200.0/02:06:33

[Frenchy : www.leclandesfungamers]

I heve the same problem on one of my PC at home :

Core 100% load
Intel 4690 K at 4Ghz
16 Go Gskill
Win10 On SSD Samsung 256 Go
Video card Ati R9-290 -3Go OC

????????

[Tenko]

Another kid who buys a prebuilt pc. To cool your pc off, put it in the bathtub.

[Robb]

Originally posted by =FG=FRENCHY*:

I heve the same problem on one of my PC at home :

Core 100% load
Intel 4690 K at 4Ghz
16 Go Gskill
Win10 On SSD Samsung 256 Go
Video card Ati R9-290 -3Go OC

????????

I have a similar build and the processor is being maxed out;

i5 4690k - H80i water cooling (Clearly not a temp issue...)
16Gb Ram
GTX 980Ti
Game is on a SSD.

[Tagger]

Originally posted by Iggy Wolf:

Correction. The Log for the GPU monitor shows that it DID manage to reach 80 C, which makes sense, since the card was being maxed out at 100% usage, with the memory clock maxed out and fan running at 100% duty. It was basically struggling just to keep itself cool. The case was hot enough that it felt like touching a hot stove, and my PSU was getting too hot as well.

Some SERIOUS optimization needs to be done because my resource monitor was showing that it was committing 11 GB of 16 GB RAM, and someone pointed out that the game does have a memory leak.

80c on a GPU is 'nothing to worry about'. It is high, but nowhere near 'scary high'. More like a 'this unit is under heavy load'-high.

You really shouldn't worry that much.
They are tested to be 'safe' up to around 100c - not that they get anywhere near that, without a faulty unit.

That being said; your GPU will thermal throttle itself, before any harm can be done to it. So don't worry so much..

In terms of committed memory - there's absolutely nothing wrong in that number these days.

CPU Usage is pretty much always high, on new CoD games. But you either get it or you dont. Kinda hit and miss, as with all bugs..
They tend to look into it and 'fix it' within the first 1-2 months. It's pretty much the same engine issues they run into, with every new CoD game (it amazes me that they still don't just work around that, on every release..).

[kaori]

I think I can break 60c with my i7 4970k with bf4/gta4 at around 50% sometimes 99% with certain extra apps running. I sometimes do video encoding at 100% at 63c 24 hours a day, had this cpu for a long time already...Cpu and video cards are meant to handle high heat. You still have to factor in "room" environment heat/air, summer is deadly for me :(

50c isnt much I say, considering this type of game will ramp it up. You may want to run task manager and see what else is sneaking in. Anti virus can be crappy, I never use them, they just increase resource usage and latency ping, they can be on constantly just with games or web usage which lags apps. Only use anti virus if you don't understand how the internet works, set on offline mode only then set to online mode once web surf.

[Iggy Wolf]

Yeah, I didn't buy any of the newest previous CODs. Last one I bought was Black Ops 2. So I didn't know if this was apparently an issue with Advanced Warfare, BO3, and Infinite Warefare as well. Though I'm sure by now most bugs for those games have been ironed out. My GPU running at 80C is actually pretty normal for it. It does it for all my demanding games.

The CPU though rarely gets hotter than 44. With this game, it got up to 50c and may have climbed more because of 100% CPU usage. NOTHING else was running in the background. The task manager literally showed the game itself using 99% usage.

[Devash]

I got the same "problems". My CPU and GPU are at full capacity and going to the max. temperature I set (87C°). This occurs mainly at the Lobby screen / Main menu (Which is totally fcked up already) where the CPU/GPU shouldn't even be near the 100%.
GPU: GTX 1080
CPU: i7-7700k
RAM: 16GB @ 3200 MHz

Its just sloppy coding I guess.

[Iggy Wolf]

I actually read that the GPU being at 100% isn't bad, since that means your card is being fully utilized. It's the 100% CPU usage that's the problem. NO GAME should utilize the cores that much, since it overheats them and causes microstutter.

[noskill909]

Game engine is not optimised, i'm waiting for a patch because sometime is unplayable with this horrible fps drop. Run GTA V 60 fps with ultra setting with amd fx 8350 nvdita gtx 1060 6gb and 16gb ram and usage cpu is above normal. For cod ww2 the optimisation is realy not there. CPU 100% usage is not right, when i launch a second time the game task manager show me a 80% - 70%.

All Driver update and nvdia too = no change.
Trying to change priority in task manager = no change.
Trying to set all graphic option to low and disable shadow etc = no change.
Disable useless process in task manager = no change.
Search on forums and pc gaming wiki = nothing for now.

Verdict = game optimisation is bad and need to be fixed that all. ;)