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iilcsova1ufs

3 years ago

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High CPU Usage/Game not saving on PC (NFS Unbound)

My system specs:

- RTX 3060 OC

- I9-11900k

- 64GB of 3200mhz RAM

- Game Is Installed on a SSD

I have added exclusions to my anti-virus and set the games priority to high using task manager and its still using 76% of my CPU just at the start menu

I also experienced the game not saving after playing for 8 G*D D*MN hours, After I excluded the documents path to the save game it saves, But I'm worried someone else will experience this too, Or if its maybe a bug that causes it to stop saving (for ex. having EA & Steam save at the same time)

I was so pissed I almost got a refund, So any support or help would be greatly appreciated.

I've also noticed that while playing the EA App will disconnect from the connection causing this "No Save" Issue.

technical issues

yeasayer004
3 years ago
Hello,
I did two things to fix this, but I'm pretty sure it was the second one that did the trick for me.
First one: Go to your System Drive, right-click -> Properties -> Security. Make sure the Windows User Profile you're using has 'Full Control' enabled. Otherwise you can enable it under Advanced Tab bottom right.
Second one: Type 'Controlled folder access' into Windows Search Bar and disable it. I got a lot of Notifications in the bottom right corner of Windows saying NFS was not able to properly access the Documents folder. But I only saw it after I lost my save file like 5 times and was wondering what was going on.
Hope this might help, let me know & good luck.

10 Replies

Abowe117
3 years ago
I got my savegame lost aswell 🥳 it was weird because it lost the save after restarting the pc, not the game. I tested it for this particular reason at the beginning, but restarting the game / killing origin didint delete the save, but restarting the pc deleted my ~5h save ^^
iilcsova1ufs
3 years ago
Yep, after doing a restart it killed my save aswell...
yeasayer004
3 years ago
Hello,
I did two things to fix this, but I'm pretty sure it was the second one that did the trick for me.
First one: Go to your System Drive, right-click -> Properties -> Security. Make sure the Windows User Profile you're using has 'Full Control' enabled. Otherwise you can enable it under Advanced Tab bottom right.
Second one: Type 'Controlled folder access' into Windows Search Bar and disable it. I got a lot of Notifications in the bottom right corner of Windows saying NFS was not able to properly access the Documents folder. But I only saw it after I lost my save file like 5 times and was wondering what was going on.
Hope this might help, let me know & good luck.
iilcsova1ufs
3 years ago
This did the trick!
yeasayer004
3 years ago
Yay, glad I could be of help, have fun!
yeasayer004
3 years ago
Oh, I forgot to add. There might be a Fix for the High CPU Usage, it brought it down for me a bit at least.
Just search for "NFS Heat CPU Load FIX" +github (there also are some Redd1t threads about it)
This works for Unbound as well it seems.
iilcsova1ufs
3 years ago
Sweet, Ill give it a try, I really appreciate your help 🙂
iilcsova1ufs
3 years ago
Yep that CPU usage thing is helping alot, Went from 80% usage to %53
HuSky18Y
1 year ago
i have same problem too with 100% of CPU load, my CPU is i712700 and RTX 3090, the user.cfg file didn't changed anything ((
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1 year ago
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