Battlefiled 4 Crazy CPU Spikes

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apcs13

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I think it's a safe to say that even now BF4 is still big-riddled and fairly poorly optimized, but I also feel that there should be a solution to a certain issue I am having with this game. I used to think there was an issue with my GPU not being strong enough, or not having enough VRAM, but after a bunch of rigorous testing and analysis, I concluded that I shouldn't have any issues in either area, and was dumbfounded until I looked at the in-game chart for GPU and CPU usage and saw my CPU usage drastically spiking very frequently.

You can very easily tell by looking at the green (GPU) and yellow (CPU) usage lines that the CPU is spiking all over the place, and it makes the game near unplayable when it happens. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? I have used a few different display drivers with fresh clean installs each time, reinstalled BF4 twice, and done a few other "solutions" like manually installing DirectX from the BF4 _Installer directory, none of it to any avail! My specs are on my profile and in my signature, and a link to a specific example (ignore bad gameplay) is below. Thank you!

Link to video: http://youtu.be/BNf1NM3ma8o

 
Solution
Correct me if I'm wrong but the FX-6350 is in fact a 6 core 6 thread processor, note that hyper threading is an Intel feature to processors. From what I know AMD has not used 'hyper threading' for some time now. I will say that your CPU is definitely powerful enough to run BF4 at max settings I wouldn't be surprised if the issue lies elsewhere, though I'm not certain as to what it is. I have had such issues where the game will lag and then CPU usage will ramp up in order to catch up but this has only been when accidentally joining a server with high ping and attempting to play through it.

FX-6350:
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-FX-Series%20FX-6350.html
I said screw it and finally overclocked my i5, going to see how much it can do on stock voltage, stress testing on 4.2ghz right now, maybe this will help the horrible fps dips I have on bf4, I get into the 20s on the china rising map Guilin Peaks (jungle map)
 
Well, since the new update and new drivers released, the game seems to be more stable, in fact, CPU spikes are almost a thing of the past. However, some maps still appear to be horrendously optimized, for example, I get great framerates on Rogue Transmission at all times, but when playing on Siege of Shanghai it's not uncommon for me to drop to the mid-40's, which is not only bothersome but very strange and frustrating. DICE, PLEASE continue optimizing this game!

Honestly I am unsure about buying the next BF game at all because of what has happened with BF4. I love the Battlefield franchise, but if my brand new $900 + machine can't run the game stably and requires an OS update just to be smooth, there's some tricky business going on here.
 
the beta driver actually messed it up even more for me...had to rollback to the one that was working before 13.11 beta 9.5, and then THAT wouldn't work, so I went to 13.12 the "official" catalyst suite apparently and have yet to try it again, me and many others on battlelog would freeze and crash as soon as we'd get in a game
 


Oh damn, thats horrible