EXTREMELY High Cpu Usage when playing GTA5

[Salair456]

Hi, I just recently got GTA5 for my PC and I'm coming across a really weird problem. Whenever I start up GTA5 to play, for some odd reason, I get EXTREMELY high Cpu usage. Like my CPU usage jumps immediately to 100% when I start GTA 5. Like I would put GTA5 in windowed and when i click out the screen, my cpu usage goes back to normal at like around 15 to 25%, when i click back into the GTA window my cpu usage skyrockets. I've tried all of my other games and this issue is not happening. I'm getting 60 fps with BF4 on high. Basically all of my other games don't have this problem. I've even done a virus scan and malware scan using malwarebytes. Nothing abnormal, my system is completely clean. My RAM usage is normal as well. I've even repaired the game on steam to see if all files are validated, all files accounted for.

Whenever I start the game, it's extremely laggy. The mouse pointer is laggy, navigating the menu is laggy, and the gameplay is laggy. No matter what graphical settings i use, the lag still persists. Maybe I'm missing something obvious that I'm too dense to see but either way, help is appreciated. Thanks advance and I hope your day goes great!

Here is an image of what my task manager looks like:
https://postimg.org/image/o2fhx59i3/



My Specs:
Ram: GSkill Ripjaws 4x4 (16gb)
CPU: Intel Core i5 3350p
Motherboard: MSI Zh77a-G43
GPU: Sapphire R9 280 Dual X
SSD: OCZ Trion 480 GB SSD

 

[schwatzz]

How much VRAM does the graphics settings show?

 

[amtseung]

1.) It's GTAV, it's pretty hard on the CPU, quite a bit harder than BF4. Metaphorically, you're comparing the water content of an orange to how much fiber is in an apple.

2.) Running steam in the background with a CPU like that is asking for bad performance. If possible, kill steam, otherwise, run it in offline mode unless playing with friends. Steam background downloading/updating while you're playing is the number one way to make every steam game unplayable. (edit: or it's conflicting with windows. Check in device manager to see if you don't have like 20 network devices, 19 of which are unavailable.)

3.) WTF is this "Service Host: Local Service (No Network) (4)"? Try killing it and see what happens. You may have issues with your network device.

 

[Salair456]

How much VRAM does the graphics settings show?

The VRAM in the graphics settings is at about 1400MB. Little less than half of what my gpu can use

edit: Also, my gpu usage is at around 10% on the main menu

 

[Salair456]

1.) It's GTAV, it's pretty hard on the CPU, quite a bit harder than BF4. Metaphorically, you're comparing the water content of an orange to how much fiber is in an apple.

2.) Running steam in the background with a CPU like that is asking for bad performance. If possible, kill steam, otherwise, run it in offline mode unless playing with friends. Steam background downloading/updating while you're playing is the number one way to make every steam game unplayable. (edit: or it's conflicting with windows. Check in device manager to see if you don't have like 20 network devices, 19 of which are unavailable.)

3.) WTF is this "Service Host: Local Service (No Network) (4)"? Try killing it and see what happens. You may have issues with your network device.

Okay, killing steam doesn't work. Stopping the process Service Host crashes my computer. All my network devices are fine, i dont see anything like you described.

 

[amtseung]

Okay, last ditch effort.

Try unparking your CPU cores. It's a p sku and an ivy bridge, so you probably have some parked cores (the p doesn't stand for parked). This usually doesn't do much for Intel CPU's, but it's worth a shot.

Have you tried fiddling with the in game settings? Try setting it to the lowest preset possible, and see if the framerate doesn't go up. As I said before, GTAV is incredibly hard on the CPU, as it tries to handle all the pedestrian AI, physics, objects loading, destructible objects, locational information, more physics, blood splatters, more physics, you get the idea. Try lowering your shadow quality, render distance, and pedestrian scaling, and see if the stuttering and frame drops lessen or go away.

 

[Salair456]

Okay, last ditch effort.

Try unparking your CPU cores. It's a p sku and an ivy bridge, so you probably have some parked cores (the p doesn't stand for parked). This usually doesn't do much for Intel CPU's, but it's worth a shot.

Have you tried fiddling with the in game settings? Try setting it to the lowest preset possible, and see if the framerate doesn't go up. As I said before, GTAV is incredibly hard on the CPU, as it tries to handle all the pedestrian AI, physics, objects loading, destructible objects, locational information, more physics, blood splatters, more physics, you get the idea. Try lowering your shadow quality, render distance, and pedestrian scaling, and see if the stuttering and frame drops lessen or go away.

Hmm, unfortunately I don't know how to unpark my cpu cores in windows 10. But i did use the task manager to look at my cpu resource monitor said that they were and I didnt see anything saying that they were parked.

Going in GTA and changing all the setting to the absolutely lowest settings and presets does NOTHING, like nothing at all.

 

[amtseung]

How to unpark CPU cores on another forum. No, it's not a virus.

After that, I'd trim the ssd. Try verifying your game files to check for corrupted files. If that doesn't fix it, try reinstalling the game (really last ditch here). If that doesn't fix it, assuming the rest of your computer is working properly, then your CPU is just too weak to run GTAV.

There are a couple of other outlier possibilities (SATA speeds set incorrectly in bios, conflicting CPU timers, to name a few), but those are pretty rare.

 

[discy]

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