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2 years ago

Consistent Random CPU Usage Spikes

Hello, my partner and I have been running into consistent game stuttering for a number of weeks now, at least a month. I've tried a number of solutions to resolve things:

- Replacing my modem

- Repairing the game

- Full uninstall then reinstall again

- Reinstalling the latest Visual C++ runtime

- Following the CPU config as suggested here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/Constant-100-CPU-utilization-since-Season-3-update/m-p/12073742/highlight/true#M36612 

None of the solutions seem to work. Today I finally decided to look up how to use the performance graph, and was able to see a comically large CPU usage spike while playing. Not only the CPU spiked but also the SIM spiked. I'm not sure what happened just under two months ago but it's unplayable for me right now as these spikes happen at least once a minute, typically more, causing my game to lag and inputs to be unresponsive.

Attached are a cropped screenshot showing the spike (again, it's literally off the scale, even going to the top of my screen), though you can find a clip showing what was occurring at the time of the spike here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10w6zrt6ESBJpHZ4bBffFTFBRXJ5AIwzM/view?usp=sharing 

I've looked at Resource Monitor and Task Manager during this time, neither of which show anything terribly useful as it's such a quick spike.

Any assistance would be appreciated. I will also include my dxdiag (full export) and msinfo (just a screenshot, idk if it has IPs or anything in there lol) if those are helpful.

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