High CPU Usage And Temperature Fix

An easy to follow and quick work-around for people suffering from
100% CPU utilization and high temperatures while playing Helldivers 2.

Ingame Settings

Make sure that ingame Vsync and Framerate limiter are turned off

Windows Settings

In windows go into your Nvidia control panel (or AMD equivalent)

-> Manage 3D settings
-> Program Settings
-> Add Helldivers2 executable.
-> Set max framerate to your monitors native frequency or lower for better results.

My CPU was absolutely cooking and constantly at 100% usage.
This gave it some much needed breathing room.
It still often hits 100% but it's not constant now.

Notes

Apparently the game has the CPU absolutely chugging out
an absurd amount of frames constantly.
The ingame framerate limiter doesn't work, so by hard limiting this in windows,
you should get better performance and cooler CPU temps.
(results may vary depending on specific hardware setup)

I hope the devs are working on optimizing the game, because this kind of CPU utilization is not normal ( The anti-cheat software isn't helping either!) . I Never experienced something like this with any other game, except for some really bad PS PC ports.

Hopefully this will help some of you suffering from the same problems that I did.

Thank you for reading.

THIS GUIDE HAS FORMALLY BEEN APPROVED BY THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH

[Vash]

https://youtu.be/Ncgv7ruZ6HU
Me when I try this and CPU usage goes down 25%~

How do you even accomplish this? Like the in game frame limiter is still allowing you to waste CPU utilisation to your uncapped framerate or something?

You know before this I read some people saying turning on SUPERSAMPLING helped them reduce CPU usage which now makes sense on why that works if you consider the above lmao

[4a 65 61 6e]

Soup Time, to do this on Linux, install Goverlay to limit frame rate. Also, look into CoreCtrl to manage GPU fan speeds.

[Datesik]

It does make a huge difference! Thank you for sharing !!

[Happitack]

@Soup Time
I think you can use the Nvidia Settings Manager to control the FPS.

If you haven't already installed it do a:
"Sudo apt install nvidia-settings" in your terminal.

Then launch the program with "nvidia-settings"
From here you should be able to set/create an application profile for the game and set a FPS limit

[TAW | Luke GrayFox]

I'm sorry, but I don't know the process for Linux. I would assume it's pretty much the same if you have the Nvidia control panel :)

[Sir Tibia The 1th]

how do you this on linux?

[(˘･з･˘) oink]

Thanks for sharing!