[SOLVED] Drops in FPS everytime cpu usage bumps up

[Sadacado]

So I'm playing this indie pixel art game called Stardew Valley and I've noticed constant drops in FPS (every minute or so) I've turned Afterburner's OSD on and tried to check the numbers and the only thing I can notice is that everytime my CPU utilization goes from 15-20 (what it stays at whenever I play the game) to 35+ then down again I see a 5 fps drop for a frame.
Here is the userbenchmark (i do have a 1650 super not sure why the benchmark didn't recognize it this time. drivers updated and all) https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/49319277
Sorry if this is the wrong place to post this thread I've never used this site before and I'll try to answer queries tomorrow morning.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

also keep an eye on Task Manager as the game is running and see what other processes are spiking when this usage increase occurs.

can very well be that a background process is using too much CPU resource for that time and affecting the game.

 

[Sadacado]

I think it's just sometimes chrome in the background or something that spikes up for a second. Is that normal though, the CPU isn't even reaching 50% so it's weird the game drops.

Thanks for the reply!

 

[Unolocogringo]

Yoy have 31% background CPU usage in your test. Plus the missing video card.
So over one full core doing something, besides the benchmark.
If you are mining/virus or videos running in the background this could be the cause for video card not being used in the benchmark.

 

[Sadacado]

Perhaps it was a bad idea to run userbench with chrome open, done another one rn https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/49335208

 

[Unolocogringo]

Ok that is better but 9 percent is still a little high.
Your SSD only has 10% free.
Very bad for them and could be part of your problem.
SSDs need about 20 % free space for best performance or for you 50 GB.
GB
Anything over that and performance tanks.

Your Hard drive may need de-fragmented.