[SOLVED] GTX 970 + I5 4690K Performance Issues (Battlefield 1 & Black ops 4)

[clcool]

CPU at 100% usage, GPU between 40-60% no one else been reporting performance issue like this, forced to run the games in lowest of low settings just to make it barley playable surely this shoudlnt be the case even so that the hardware is a few years old. Others including some websites suggest that this setup should be able to run those games on high. I have tried different drivers still no fix also tried formatting also no fix

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[isaacarizaga8611]

Sorry but you only meet the recommended specifications for Black OPs 4. On blizzard website page for " Call of duty black 4 system Requirements " it says for "High/Competitive Specifications. CPU Intel i7-8700k or AMD Ryzen 1800X. Gpu : Geforce GTX 1080 or Radeon Rx Vega. " . I feel that this is the same for Battlefield 1.

 

[13thmonkey]

looks to me like your CPU is the bottleneck which is why you have to turn it all the way down to low as graphics settings will have virtually no effect.

Shut down everything non-essential in the system tray, see if that helps.
You might also want to run in DX12 if there is the option
You might also want to (counter intuitively) in the task manager, go to the exe in question, go to details, and set the affinity for all but one core. By doing this you are leaving 1 core available for other tasks, you might get a lower frame rate but it will be a lot more stable if it works. I found that the lower CPU loading from DX12 made it more bareable than DX11 on the division with a 3570k (4.3) and a GTX 970.

Then start to increase the GPU settings and see where performance starts to drop off.

On AAA games, 4 cores don't cut it, 8 slightly slower cores would be preferable, not FX slow obviously.

 

[clcool]

Ok, how do I run in dx12 ?

 

[13thmonkey]

It'll be in the gfx settings, top left in bf4

 

[bmockeg]

Time for a CPU upgrade

 

[clcool]

Ok I'll try DX12 on black ops 4 and update you guys, by the way my idle CPU load is 60% should this be concerning?

 

[bmockeg]

Yeah, use task manager and see what is using your CPU

 

[pete_101]

Overclocking the CPU would help too. You didn't mention the clock speed, so I'm assuming it's at stock (3.5GHz boosting to 3.9GHz on a couple of cores). You should easily be able to get 4.5GHz across all cores, but you'd need a better cooler than the stock one.

 

[pete_101]

Ok I'll try DX12 on black ops 4 and update you guys, by the way my idle CPU load is 60% should this be concerning?

Yes, this is a big concern, what's running?

Update, in case you don't know, the easiest way to see what's running is in task manager (alt, control, delete) and in the "processes" tab, look at the CPU usage.

 

[clcool]

Well I must say I have alot of shit on my PC and I have some avast anti virus that I cant uninstall which I've just realised possibly some virus? Ill post a screen shot of my usage tomorrow

 

[pete_101]

Avast is a good anti virus program, but you need to set it not to run while gaming....it's somewhere in it's settings.

 

[13thmonkey]

A cleaner PC (and I don't mean just cleaning the c: ) actually uninstalling stuff will help a lot, especially if it is sitting there consuming 1-2%, get rid of 10 of those and you've got 20% for CPU power available for the game.