100% CPU usage in BF1

i have a 4790k-cpu and a 970-gpu and am also having this problem, i've been through multiple forums and youtube videos and it seems to be a very common problem, it has also caused my pc to blue screen while playing, any help or update to this would be great.

I'm currently testing out a new workaround for people and you seem like the person that can test it for me. My theory is that the game crashes due to hardware getting used at 100% and that might cause some bug to crash the game. Crashes often caused by nvwgf2umx.dll (or the game itself) which is an Nvidia driver file.

STEP 1

The workaround is quite simple, we need to lower the maximum FPS the came will render- I want you to create an empty text file called user.cfg in C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\ (or where you might have your game saved) and in that file and add this text if you have a 144Hz monitor:

gametime.maxvariablefps 145

or this text if you got a 60Hz monitor

gametime.maxvariablefps 61

If you have another monitor take it's hertz frequency change the number above so it's Hz+1

STEP 2

If STEP 1 does not work try changing the values in the user.cfg file to lower values. Keep lowering them until the problem hopefully doesn't happen. I'm aware this will lower the quality of your experience as you will get lower FPS so see this as a temporary solution until Nvidia / AMD / DICE comes out with a fix, if this helps your game not crash it will help them fix the issue faster and you will be able to play in the meantime.

Tried this just to try and get rid of the CPU spiking during the loading videos on domination maps. Result was an instant crash after the video ended and the map loaded in. Game ran fine before so I'll remove the cfg file again.

I'm having this issue on an i5-6600 with 8gb ram and gtx 1070. I can turn up say the rendering resolution that impacts the GPU and have no change in performance even at 200% as the CPU is maxing out at 100% constantly.

same

i7 4770k! 90/100%

1080 gtx 50/60%

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official forum is about to explode. Any answer EA for this inexplicable heavy load on CPU?

Hello,

I gived an answer for this probleme of CPU overload in this topic check it, for me it working after update windows and set user.cfg  with cpu unlock cores

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/100-CPU-Load/td-p/5964304/jump-to/first-unread-message

problema resolvido nao passa de 85 % da cpu com esse comando

bloco de notas 

user 

renderdevice.renderaheadlimit 2
getrender.thread.maxprocessorcount 4
perfoverlay.drawfps 1
gametime.maxvariablefps 65