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Anonymous
8 years ago

i5 6600k 100% CPU usage

Specs: 

- i5 6600K @4.4GHz

- EVGA GTX 1070 (slightly overclocked with MSI afterburner)

- 16GB DDR4 RAM 2133MHz (XMP overclocked to 2666MHz)

- BF1 is on a 240GB SSD

- 1440P 144HZ Gsync monitor

I've played BF1 a decent amount since beta, but I have gotten more and more annoyed at a certain performance issue I'm having. I am seemingly not alone with this problem but I CANNOT find the fix for the problem. I eventually quit the game about 130h of playtime after release because of these insane issues, and now I have returned for the new DLC.

My i5 6600k CPU is struggling with this game A LOT, I sometimes have 98-100% CPU usage constantly usually in 64 man operations but sometimes even when there's not that many players. This gives me varying FPS that goes that dips down to as low as 40 but almost never goes over 80 fps. What graphics option I have in-game makes no difference in the CPU usage and thus I still stutter and frame drop beyond belief.

My GPU is usually about 80-90% usage, but in the past BOTH the CPU and GPU was at 99-100% usage so I don't know what the deal is. My friend who has an i5 gets no issues at all. In the beta BF1 ran exceptionally well with my CPU, no problems at all

I have tried a lot of fixes but nothing seems to work, at least in the long run...

- About a month ago I thought I found the fix, I tried closing battle.net (apparently can cause issues) and I also changed the nvidia PhysX setting to be on my GPU instead of CPU, and I believed it worked for a few days. But then the issue seemed to be back again for no reason.

- Just yesterday I believed I found the fix again, I have had my headphones "enhanced" with more bass etc, and when I turned off all sound effects on my headphones my game was fine with something like 80-99% GPU and 80-90% CPU, the game ran well for a whole operation and I was very happy.

- But today when I played the same operation again, my CPU was completely broken again. 100% constant CPU usage and GPU was about 80% with the same good ol' 40-75 fps. 

INSANELY frustrating that I haven't changed a thing, no additional programs or anything in the background compared to yesterday and yet it didn't work.

Later today, it was fine again in the same map and area. It was about 80% once more, why? I have no idea.

Other: 

- My CPU and GPU temperatures are fine

- V-sync is off, on doesn't help.

Things I have tried:

- Downclocking and defaulting my BIOS, it makes no difference

- Disabling superfetch service

- Having no background programs, I never do anymore, except maybe discord if I play with someone (doesn't seem to affect CPU)

- Limiting FPS, I thought it worked in the past but it doesn't always work out anymore. I have limited fps to 88 in user.cfg, having much more is more harsh on the CPU. (PS I WILL NOT limit fps to 60 even though it very much helps the CPU, I did not get a 144hz monitor to play at 60hz, I can't do it.

- PhysX to GPU

- Lowering graphics

- Unplugging second monitor

- DDU, clean reinstallation of graphical drivers

- Unparked CPUs

- Multiple commands in the user.cfg file in the BF1 folder, the only one that seems to do much is renderdevice.renderaheadlimit. If I have it on "1" it gets really bad in-game, I have it on 2, seems to work best.

- Turning off special effects on output sound.

- Setting maximum pre-rendered frames in nvidia control panel to different things, no effect.

- XBOX DVR off

- OneDrive off

- Not using MSI afterburner

- Hoping for an optimization update

- And probably some other things I forgot.

NEW: 

- Origin in-game off

- Timebroker service Off

- Command prompt sfc /scannow (found a few issues actually)

- CCleaner, registry fix etc

- Clean DDU install then I ONLY installed GPU drivers, not HD audio or anything else.

I have considered buying an i7 but that is A LOT of money only for fixing one single game. I'd rather wait and pray that an update fixes everything.

Edit: I just thought that some might just say "100% is normal" well maybe it is, but I WITHOUT ANY DOUBT have problems ONLY when my CPU goes up to that constant 100%. (edit: Sometimes that's the case...)

 

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  • ragnarok013's avatar
    ragnarok013
    Hero+
    8 years ago

    @RRREEEEEEEEEEE your CPU is the minimum required CPU to play BF1 so it will be under load depending on your settings since BF1 is an extremely processor intensive game. What settings are you running BF1 on, Ultra, High? Have you tried lowering the graphics to see if that alleviates the issue? What OS are you using?

    I had a similar issue with my Win7 i7-3770 16GB RAM, and GTX1060 (6GB), and limiting my FPS to 61 while running on Ultra at 1440 solved my CPU load issue. I know you don't want to do it but at least try it to see if it solves or helps the alleviate issue as part of the troubleshooting process.  You can always remove the limiter after the next patch to see if the issues is solved if it does solve your issue at this time.

    One potential issue is your use of MSI Afterburner. This program has caused issues with every Battlefield release since BF3.  I recommend to disable it and then play BF1 to see if your issue goes away.

    Also are you using the in game graphics options or the GeForce experience application to manage the in game graphics? I found that most of my BF1 related issues went away when I uninstalled GeForce experience and did a clean install of the latest driver set installing only the GPU driver and latest physix driver.

    Regarding discord (and it's step brother Slack), I've found that it uses a lot of memory when I game - and the more discords you are subscribed to the worse the issue becomes.  On the rare occasion that I get a stutter turning off discord makes the stutter go away.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Changing graphics does not help at all. The FPS and CPU usage stays about the same, but it might go a bit lower if I absolutely max out the game with AA. I have Windows 10.

    Limiting to 60 FPS does help and gets the usage under 90%. But staying at 60 fps is like staying at a frame drop, so I don't see that as a fix.

    I will try MSI afterburner off, it might take a bit to test since the game does run fine sometimes and I need to make sure it's not just one of those times.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Exiting MSI afterburner doesn't seem to do anything much, neither does discord. However the problems problems were basically gone today, but sometime in the near future it will surely be back again.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    It was just absolute sh*t for a while, had like 40 fps, today was unplayable for no reason. I wish Dice would release an update fixing these issues........

  • ragnarok013's avatar
    ragnarok013
    Hero+
    8 years ago
    @Hilly_Barrington wrote:

    Changing graphics does not help at all. The FPS and CPU usage stays about the same, but it might go a bit lower if I absolutely max out the game with AA. I have Windows 10.

    Limiting to 60 FPS does help and gets the usage under 90%. But staying at 60 fps is like staying at a frame drop, so I don't see that as a fix.

    I will try MSI afterburner off, it might take a bit to test since the game does run fine sometimes and I need to make sure it's not just one of those times.

    @RRREEEEEEEEEEE WIn10 'eh? Try disabling the Xbox DVR functionality. Also did you install the creator's update for Win10?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Xbox DVR is off, I forgot to mention it in things I've tried. Yes I do have the creators update, however I've had problems much earlier than creators update. Also I can't uninstall creators update since it has been more than 10 days

    Edit: I've tried a bunch of fixes related to creators update issues, going to see if I notice any diffrence

    Edit 2: It did no difference, I tried things such as decreasing windows appearence quality, disabling timebroker, disabling windows showing tips, attempting to fix potential memory leaks. No luck.

  • ragnarok013's avatar
    ragnarok013
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    8 years ago
    @Hilly_Barrington wrote:

    Xbox DVR is off, I forgot to mention it in things I've tried. Yes I do have the creators update, however I've had problems much earlier than creators update. Also I can't uninstall creators update since it has been more than 10 days

    Edit: I've tried a bunch of fixes related to creators update issues, going to see if I notice any diffrence

    Edit 2: It did no difference, I tried things such as decreasing windows appearence quality, disabling timebroker, disabling windows showing tips, attempting to fix potential memory leaks. No luck.

    One thing that I don't see in the list as having been tried is turning off Origin in game. When you do this make sure that you do it both in the Origin application global settings and under BF1 by right clicking the BF1 icon in Origin and selecting "view game details" then uncheck the origin in game box.

  • Carbonic's avatar
    Carbonic
    Hero+
    8 years ago

    I have the 6600k too. No issue like this here.

    You might want to try disable Gsync just to rule that out.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I tried turning off origin in-game and G-sync off as well. G-sync doesn't seem to do any difference but origin in-game miiight do a liiitle bit maybe possibly? The game is currently running smoothly but it did that today without appyling any of these new fixes too, so I dunno. I'll get back to this post if it goes to shi*t again

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