Question Games maxing out at 100 Percent CPU and im not sure what the problem is

[Tristanjedw1507]

Hello,
Im currently running a windows 10 PC with a GTX 1080 8GB GPU and a 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7600K CPU @ 3.80GHz, 3792 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)' processor, ASUS ROG STRIX Z270E, 64-bit.
Im having the problem where every 30 or so seconds to a minute, games such as Red Dead Redemption 2 freeze for like 5 seconds, and with battlefield V every few seconds for half a second. No matter what graphics i put it on nothing much changes, and its not an FPS problem as it runs perfectly fine on full ultra all games. Also my RAM is 16GB of DDR4. I don't know if the problem is that the CPU is not good enough for the GPU or a RAM issue. The recommended hardware for Red Dead 2 is Intel Core i7-4770K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X and GTX 1060 6GB and 8GB of DDR4, which im pretty sure is all worse than what i have in all categories.

Any replies for a fix are appreciated, thankyou!

 

[boju]

BF5 is very cpu intensive and can see high cpu usages even on hex core cpus. Lowering frame rates may help cpu by not having to pre-render as many and allocate more resource to other aspects of the game and hopefully not stutter as much. Msi Afterburner can limit fps.

Regarding Read Dead, it's a hot topic atm and it's a huge debacle.

https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...ly-becoming-irrelevant.3542483/#post-21397438

 

[Karadjgne]

RDD2 tells you right off the bat that it's thread heavy, and not so reliant on ipc/clock speeds. I7-4770k and R5-1500x are both older, slower, lower end 4 core/8 thread cpus. Where the importance is on the threads. Even throwing a somewhat faster i5-7600k into the mix, you are still 4 threads short, and thats going to create backlog.

 

[sizzling]

Unfortunately quad core/thread cpu’s are not aging well, it’s just not enough anymore for modern higher end games.

 

[drivinfast247]

The fix is to upgrade to a better CPU.

 

[Karadjgne]

Not necessarily a better cpu, just a better equipped cpu. Switching to i7-7700k would be the only option on that platform

 

[Smege]

Not necessarily a better cpu, just a better equipped cpu. Switching to i7-7700k would be the only option on that platform

7700k is a dead end, i'm running it @5ghz and still getting consistent stutters, while the fps itself is ok