100% CPU load on new SSD M.2 disk!

[BeardPhobia]

Hello all,

I was playing Generation Zero all day yesterday without problems. Everything was running smooth as butter, but then I got a new SSD M.2 delivered and I installed it right away. It's a Samsung 970 EVO 250gb and I use it for my Windows installation.

Generation Zero, along with all my other games are located on another 1TB SSD disk.

I did a new clean Windows install on my M.2 disk(card) and started over. But after installing all my games again, and starting Generation Zero, my CPU load goes to 100% directly when entering the Gen Z world. And it stays there.... Task manager shows the game at 97%, but at the same time I can play smoothly. But recording through SLOBS give me FPS drops due to high CPU load.

So, after installing Generation Zero on a 1tb SSD disk, and a new Windows installation on a M.2 card it's almost unplayable. The thing is, IF I plug my old HDD back in, I can run Generation Zero perfectly again with only a 50-60% CPU load.

Are there any known issues with M.2 cards or SSD's in general?

For comparrisson I can run Fortnite, Apex Legends and Battlefield V without any problems. No CPU spikes or high load. It's only Generation Zero that causes this at this time!

Specs:
Intel Core i5-8400 Processor. Socket-LGA1151, 6-Core, 6-Thread, 2.8/4.0GHz, 65W, Coffee Lake
ASUS TUF B360M-Plus Gaming, S-1151 Moderkort, mATX, B360, DDR4, 1xPCIe-x16,
ASUS GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Dual OC Grafikkort, PCI-Express 3.0, 6GB GDDR5, 1569/1785MHz, Pascal
Crucial DDR4 2400MHz 16GB 2x8GB 2400MHz (PC4-19200) DDR4 CL17 SR x8, 288pin, Single Ranked
Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 250gb SSD card
Crucial MX500 1tb 2.5 inch SSD

[Reignhardt]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Helios:

If you use 2 ssds at same time all 16 lanes of your cpu are used resulting in 100% usage i think so try a install on your new ssd.

No offence, but thats not how this works...

[♂TheBlasterMaster™✞]

I have read posts that could indicate this is an Intel CPU issue, not AMD CPU.

[Gooseman]

i9-9900k cpu usage still 100%
capped at 60fps, 1080p (TV)

[PapaJS 👾🎮]

Game crashes nonstop and runs at 100% CPU/GPU for me aswell. Pretty much why I stopped playing, game's not worth killing a PC for.

OS: Windows 10 64-Bit
MB: ASUS Strix B250F Gaming, Socket-1151
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake Processor 4.2GHz
GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX 1080Ti ROG Strix Gaming
PSU: Corsair CX 750M, 750W
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB
SSD: Samsung 960 EVO 250GB
RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4

[big_jcarn]

Playing around with settings and running fraps to see the framerate, seems without v-sync enabled the framerate climbs crazy high, seeing 200+.
When I set the PC's framerate to 60 in nvidia/resolution control panel and enable v-sync in-game the CPU stays under 100% and stops the climbing temps. But still getting random crashes.

Also the adaptive framerate doesn't do anything as far as lowering or capping the framerate according to the fraps counter.

[Gooseman]

Początkowo opublikowane przez big_jcarn:

Playing around with settings and running fraps to see the framerate, seems without v-sync enabled the framerate climbs crazy high, seeing 200+.
When I set the PC's framerate to 60 in nvidia/resolution control panel and enable v-sync in-game the CPU stays under 100% and stops the climbing temps. But still getting random crashes.

Also the adaptive framerate doesn't do anything as far as lowering or capping the framerate according to the fraps counter.

Going to try cap the engine with nvidia inspector and see how that goes

[znurrad]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Gooseman:

i9-9900k cpu usage still 100%
capped at 60fps, 1080p (TV)

My i9 9900k is mildly OCed to 4.9 on all cores.. When using forced Vsync in Nvidia panel, Gsync on and with fps capped to 60 using RTSS I'm getting 25-40% CPU use with very managable temps in mid 60s

[lt_delay]

except from the Intel CPU, what hardware do you guys have in common?
Do you all have a NVME SSD as a system drive oder games drive installed?

when I hear "I installed a NVME ssd and now have issues", I think about Intel RST is not installed or outdated and causes trouble like with the Windows 10 Upgrade, that didn't install as long as the faulty driver was installed or outdated.

Maybe try updating Intel RST or uninstall it and use the Windows driver instead.


edit: something completely different because I use another platform (AM4/Ryzen3000) and it's a different issue at all, but it's related to storage devices...
I had an issue where the AHCI Powermanagement (for SSDs) caused 100%load on my Windows drive cause it wanted to communicate with a non-existing nvme raid device.
After disabling the Powermanagement (set to active), everything was fine.

If you can't solve your issue, it's maybe worth a try...
https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/177819-ahci-link-power-management-enable-hipm-dipm.html

[Mspaint]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Avalanche_Graham:

Hi! Sorry to hear of your trouble. Interestingly enough I too have almost the same model SSD at home (PRO rather than EVO though) and played with no issues, along with streaming on SLOBS. We'll do some investigating and see what we can find though, this doesn't sound right.

I got the same issue as the writer, even with both disc i have! so when im trying to stream it .. not possible! even my mate that just bought a i9 with GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ROG MATRIX has the same issue! Streaming will work for like 10 min the Black screen and reboot of the whole system.. so its something wierd about the game! that is why im not touching it before they fix performance and cpu issue

[BeardPhobia]

Interesting to see all solutions you've come up with, and unfortunately that some are still having trouble. I solved it by capping FPS and V-sync.

But, another issue made me quit the game, and that was a crash and corrupted save files. With no solution to the save files, I have little to no will to start over.