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Anonymous
10 years ago

My CPU usage is at 100% and is having massive FPS drops because of that.

I have tried everything I can think of to try and get my CPU usage down. I have disabled the sharing that Nvidia offers through Geforce Experience. I tried to disable the in-game Origin overlay but that won't seem to turn off no matter what I do. I have gone through the task manager to see what else could be using my CPU but nothing is using it other than BF1, I even set it as a priority task. It seems to play fine in the single-player, but whenever I try to play the game in multiplayer it always has issues. I get an inconsistent frame-rate that barely goes over 60 fps. There is no thermal throttling, my system has more than enough air flow. I can't think of anything that would be causing this.

I also just saw that the minimum requirement for PC CPU is a 6600k, I thought the 6600k was a much more powerful CPU than that..

My Rig:
i5 6600k @ 3.5 GHz
EVGA SC GTX 1070 running at 2010 MHz
8GB Crucial DDR4 2100 MHz

battlefield 1

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  • WaitDontSh00t's avatar
    WaitDontSh00t
    Rising Vanguard
    10 years ago

    I don't have 100% usage, but I do have higher than normal usage it seems.

    -My Rig

    -GPU: EVGA GTX 980Ti Hybrid SLI

    -CPU: i7-6700k @ 4.5Ghz

    -RAM: 16GB Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000Mhz

    Temps are fine. Playing on 3440x1440 with max settings.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago

    That's weird, I did not have this setup during the beta so I am not sure how it would have worked for me, but I do hope that something get's done about it.

  • Kayshinoda's avatar
    Kayshinoda
    10 years ago

    ShadowPlay or PlaysTV:

    • It seems ShadowPlay has been causing huge FPS drops (reducing frames by like 50) for whatever reason. Make sure you have it disabled until Nvidia releases a driver update. I haven't seen many problems from AMD users but this might also apply to Raptr/PlaysTV, so disable these. To see how to disable ShadowPlay see this video: https://goo.gl/Q52UqW


    Drivers:


    Other Tips:

    • Make sure there is no memory limits in your BF1 advanced settings, either match it to your VRAM or set it to unrestricted.
    • Toggle DX12 on or off, you might see huge gains either way depending on drivers and hardware.
    • In Windows 10, make sure Xbox GameDVR is disabled. https://goo.gl/EQVfKc
    • Unpark your cores (Windows 7 and 10) install ParkControl https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/ Make sure parking is disabled http://i.imgur.com/MfrLUrt.png and hit 'Apply', you may want to adjust Frequency Scaling also so it's always giving 100% also, change this http://i.imgur.com/BT0TXfP.png and hit 'Apply'. Please note this will use more power.
    • Disable Sueprfetch in Windows https://goo.gl/ICmqxQ Do this last, re-enable it if it has no effect.
    • If you have an i7 CPU, make sure Hyperthreading is enabled in your BIOS.
    • Unplug or disable your second/third monitor. People have reported a 20+ FPS drop just from having a second monitor plugged in.
    • The trial version of BF1 uses a differently named executable to the main game (bf1trial.exe), which Nvidia/AMD drivers may not be picking up on. So you may see no change until the main game is released. (taken from Guru3D)


    Failing that you're going to have to wait for official driver updates from AMD and Nvidia for the full release.

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