BF4 maxing out cpu (100% cpu) lagging game
Intel i7 3740 2.70ghz with Nvidia 660m gpu. During games i will go through massive lag spikes so i checked my processes and BF4 was hogging all my cpu making it impossible to play due to the immense amount of lag. CPU was maxed out at 85-100% usage. Ive tried lowering my settings from high to low and even dropped the resolution but I still hit lag spikes just as often and it still is using 85-100% of my cpu and almost all my RAM. I've tried unparking cpus and setting max minimum to 0% and to 100% and I still get this issue. I used to be able to play on high settings with no lag 60fps, and ultra but it would drop to around 45fps, now on low I'm lucky if I get 30fps. Ive tried researching the issue and mostly have only seen this with AMD gpus and haven't found a solution for it yet. Has anyone found a solution to this issue that I haven't stumbled on?
things I've tried:
1. lowering visual settings to the lowest of the low
2. Unpark CPUs
3. set max minimum cpu usage to 0% and also tried setting it at 100%
4. set cpu priority of BF4 to high -still lagged
5. set cpu priority of BF4 to low- still lagged
6. set cpu priority of origin and chrome to low and closed any unnecessary processes
7. turned it off and back on again.
I know my specs arnt the best but they meet the minimum and recommended system requirements to run BF4 and have handled it on high video settings without breaking a sweat before. please help! thank you.
Dust in a PC could do this I would buy a can of air and blow the dust out of your PC with the PC unplugged just to rule it out.
