Cpu spiking

[GHOST]

Is it OK for ur cpu to be hitting 80% all the time ganing or is it to high at that ? What does your spike at ?

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

CPU is?
Game in question?

It is normal to have high usage when playing demanding games.

[Thiesen]

CPU's a meant to be working at 100% 24/7 if you give them proper cooling that is...

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by Thiesen:

CPU's a meant to be working at 100% 24/7 if you give them proper cooling that is...

Who told you that, or where did you get that idea?

[GHOST]

i was told if a cpu is at 100% all the game u are in trouble your processor will get fried

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by GHOST:

i was told if a cpu is at 100% all the game u are in trouble your processor will get fried

Not how that works, when CPU hit 100% that meant hit max work load it can handle, and can encounter problems like performance dropping, stuttering, freezing, or app crashing.

CPU fried if you're overclocking them out of spec sending too much power, or cooler not doing it job, and safety setting was disable to allow it to fried itself if overheating beyond safety measures. Normally when CPU overheats it will throttle itself which cause reading to look like hitting 100%.

Now what is your CPU, and game having problem with?

[GHOST]

Originally posted by Dr.Shadowds 🐉:

CPU is?
Game in question?

It is normal to have high usage when playing demanding games.

Grayzone

My spec is Ryzen 5 4500 6 core processor

4060 graphics card

[GHOST]

I bought grayzone Turned all my settings to low for graphics I thought the lower the graphics it would help with the cpu usage being so high on that game it did no seem to matter

Any other game I play at medium setting

Like
Huntshowdown
Gtav
Tarkov
Insurgency sandstorm
Delta force

My cpu usage does be sitting around 60% ish up or down a bit I am kind f new to computer.

Don't realy know anything about them when I see it at 100% I thought ok this might not be good so I turned off that game.

Do u play gayzone what does your spike it.

Thanks for your reply I appreciate it

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by Thiesen:

CPU's a meant to be working at 100% 24/7 if you give them proper cooling that is...

That's honestly super bad information.

Only if the load can push it to 100% and sustain that would it be at that all the time which means the CPU is not strong enough for the loads requested of it. Anything less than that usually implies there's nothing more to process, which is why you don't get 100% cpu by watching a youtube video unless you have an ancient CPU, or why just idling Discord doesn't do 100%. Stronger CPUs tend to be used less for overall demand, and you'd want to avoid 100% due to thermals. Only certain specific activity should be able to sustain 100% until completion, and that's for gaming usually preloading everything.

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by Pierre_The_Scumbag:

Some from column A some from column B, CPU's are built to work up to the maximum load, if you can hit that maximum load with good temps, its not a problem, but its a fine balance with games, as overhead maybe needed in the CPU for maybe something that could have a real time required load before pushing operated outputs to where its needed.

But if you were just doing intensive operations and you have gazillions to do, you do want to be hitting max load constantly.

You only want a constant max-CPU load for specific applications that can use the entire CPU until the task is complete. Games (gameplay not preload), are not one of them, that typically means the CPU can't keep up with the load. Much like if you're in discord, playing an indie game and the performance is all over the place because the CPU can't keep up, you wouldn't want that task at a constant 100%, especially if the thermals are looking bad.

You should at all times, even for gaming, have unused headroom as a good practice. Only specific tasks should be 100% until complete. Optimized preloading is definitely one of those tasks.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

OP do this open Steam client > top left you see help click on it > click on System information, and new box pop up > in that box click where see ton of text in it click in it, now press Ctrl key + A key on keyboard this will highlight all the text in that box, then press Ctrl key + C key this will copy all that text > now in this discussion making new post press in reply box area to type press Ctrl key + V key this will paste all your copy text, then post comment. This will tell us your system information for hardware specs.

[PaulKrawitz]

Depends on your CPU and the game.

If you run a modern game on an old CPU, then yes.

If you run a modern game on a modern CPU, then no.

[Sr Humungus]

Windows user? its normal, windows by default makes your cpu running all the time to be ready when you run a program, games are programs too.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Perhaps you should run some benchmark programs on your pc to test out it's load.

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Sr Humungus:

Windows user? its normal, windows by default makes your cpu running all the time to be ready when you run a program, games are programs too.

Yes, that is normal. Windows has alot of things it runs in the background too. Games are usually GPU intensive, but also use CPU to run some things too.