Question CPU pinned at 100% usage in games

[alexcameron26]

i just upgraded my GPU to a 3060ti and i now get 100% CPU usage in most of my games

Am i bottlenecking?

cpu is a i5-4690K with 4x4GB of Gskill Trident Z DDR3-2400s and a ASUS Maximus HERO VII motherboard

games its doing it in are Red Dead Redemption 2, Mass Effect Andromeda, and GTA V

 

[boju]

What were your fps before and with which graphics card? Cap your fps to similar level as before then incrementally increase fps cap until cpu usage is at a level you like. 100% usage, frames play a big part of that, isn't too bad unless you get stutters due to cpu being tapped out. Quads are pretty much finished these days, maybe if it had hyperthreading it could have lasted a little while longer.

 

[alexcameron26]

i play with Vsync running so my games all cap out at 60FPS my old video card was a GTX 1070 founders edition
and with that card my cpu usage never went above 75%

 

[boju]

Guess it's not that then. Have a look in task manager for Nvidia Container. Latestish drivers had issues with it, eating cpu resources. Not sure if it's been fixed yet, i assume so, but check anyway and search about it too to learn more about this particular issue and perhaps try an older driver. That's assuming you reinstalled Geforce drivers in the first place.

 

[AnimeManConnor]

In regards to NVIDIA Container, I haven't seen it use a single dribble of my CPU since installing the last update I did which was about, 2-3 weeks ago I'd say.

 

[boju]

In regards to NVIDIA Container, I haven't seen it use a single dribble of my CPU since installing the last update I did which was about, 2-3 weeks ago I'd say.

Yeah, most likely not that. We'll see when op returns. They should investigate task manager anyhow, see what's going on.

 

[alexcameron26]

Yeah, most likely not that. We'll see when op returns. They should investigate task manager anyhow, see what's going on.

checked task manager while games in question are running Nvidia container is using 2-4% of CPU and the game itself is pinning the cpu at 100%

 

[boju]

and the game itself is pinning the cpu at 100%

What game? Are you sure it's those three games you mentioned or just one?

Did you enable Vsync again after reinstalling driver?

 

[drivinfast247]

i play with Vsync running so my games all cap out at 60FPS my old video card was a GTX 1070 founders edition
and with that card my cpu usage never went above 75%

Did the 1070 peg the refresh rate to 60fps?

 

[gamerk316]

Yeah, newer games are absolutely going to thrash a 4000 series i5. Heck, even older ones will cause problems.

 

[alexcameron26]

What game? Are you sure it's those three games you mentioned or just one?

Did you enable Vsync again after reinstalling driver?

GTAV, mass effect Andromeda, and red dead redemption 2 and yes I reenabled vsync after driver install

 

[drivinfast247]

No it did not, everything was normal with my 1070

What do you mean by "normal"?

 

[alexcameron26]

Did the 1070 peg the refresh rate to 60fps?

Yes except in RDR2 which it barely got above 40 and unless I turned the settings down to medium

 

[drivinfast247]

Yes except in RDR2 which it barely got above 40 and unless I turned the settings down to medium

Do you have "Fast Sync" enable in Nvidia control panel?

 

[boju]

Set NvidiaCP fps limiter to 59 with any of those games. See what happens.

 

[alexcameron26]

Do you have "Fast Sync" enable in Nvidia control panel?

vertical sync is set to use 3D application settings not set to fast

 

[alexcameron26]

Set NvidiaCP fps limiter to 59 with any of those games. See what happens.

tried your idea CPU is still getting pegged to 100% if i run the games at the highest settings possible to get stable FPS

 

[boju]

vertical sync is set to use 3D application settings not set to fast

Is vsync on in game though? Application settings means it's up to games own vsync if it's on or not. But you probably knew that.

Try use Nvidia's vsync to on whilst having 59fps cap.

 

[boju]

tried your idea CPU is still getting pegged to 100% if i run the games at the highest settings possible to get stable FPS

What about ray tracing? On or off?

 

[alexcameron26]

What about ray tracing? On or off?

Ray tracing is set to application use and neither GTA V or Mass Effect Andromeda use raytracing not sure if RDR2 does tho

 

[boju]

Na i don't think so either. Try vsync on in NvidiaCP with 59fps cap. If no good do you still have your old card?

I've never seen this before. There are ingame settings that are cpu bound, search what settings are cpu oriented and muck around with those settings.