High CPU Usage Low GPU Usage Low Framerate

[Dingleberg]

For starters, I want to know if you guys think that my power supply may be at fault.

Battlefield 1 for example, no matter if I'm running at low settings or ultra (1080p) I get the same framerate. The framerate is not locked, because it shoots up when I look straight up. My cpu usage is generally 80% + in BF1 but my gpu tends to be around 30%-40% usage with a framerate just below 60fps.

I feel like my power supply may be at fault here. It's about 3.5 years old now as well. It's an XFX Pro 550w 80+ Bronze. It only has one 6+2 and one 6 pin, but my gtx 1070 needs two 6+2 pin to power, so I have an adapter that makes two 4 pin molex into one 8 pin.

SPECS:
i5-4670k stock clocks
Gigabyte GA-Z87MX-D3H
GTX 1070 / Radeon HD 7970
16gb 2x8 Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz
XFX Pro 550w

 

[Dingleberg]

Can confirm that the power supply is not the problem. Still getting the same cpu and gpu usage.

 

[rcald2000]

Before assuming that your PSU is at fault, please check your CPU temps while gaming with HWMonitor: http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/hwmonitor_1.30.exe

What is your CPU temp while it's under load during gameplay? Please let us know.

 

[Dingleberg]

Before assuming that your PSU is at fault, please check your CPU temps while gaming with HWMonitor: http://www.cpuid.com/downloads/hwmonitor/hwmonitor_1.30.exe

What is your CPU temp while it's under load during gameplay? Please let us know.

Without getting too much into the way my system is laid out, I have an NH-D14 cooler with no fans so it's just the fin block. After running around in bf1 at almost locked 100% cpu usage, my temps do not pass 63c on any core.

Also I'm not worried about the psu. I really needed a new one anyways.

 

[rcald2000]

Understood. You listed in your specs "GTX 1070 / Radeon HD 7970". I recommend that you remove the HD 7970 from your system. I seriously wonder if the GTX 1070 is installed in the x16 slot labeled PCIEX4 in the manual. Even though that slot has x16 dimensions, it only has x4 of bandwidth.

In addition, I recommend that you remove all drivers with DDU and then redownload a fresh copy from the Nvidia website. Weird performance issues can happen when you have both and AMD and Nvidia card installed in the same system.

 

[Dingleberg]

Understood. You listed in your specs "GTX 1070 / Radeon HD 7970". I recommend that you remove the HD 7970 from your system. I seriously wonder if the GTX 1070 is installed in the x16 slot labeled PCIEX4 in the manual. Even though that slot has x16 dimensions, it only has x4 of bandwidth.

In addition, I recommend that you remove all drivers with DDU and then redownload a fresh copy from the Nvidia website. Weird performance issues can happen when you have both and AMD and Nvidia card installed in the same system.

Oh sorry. The 7970 is not in my system. I copied the specs from another recent post I made. The 1070 is in the first x16 slot on my motherboard.

So it seems that the issue is somewhere with my cpu. When I look around online, people with the same config as me don't have this high usage in their games. It's reasonably around 60% or so for most people.

 

[rcald2000]

Well clearly your CPU is the bottleneck, since BF1 is a very CPU dependent game. But I was still surprised that you weren't achieving another 20-30 FPS, but it might be because of how many people are on your map. The cheap work-around is to overclock your CPU, but please monitor your temps and consider getting a better CPU cooler, if your current one isn't.

 

[Dingleberg]

Well clearly your CPU is the bottleneck, since BF1 is a very CPU dependent game. But I was still surprised that you weren't achieving another 20-30 FPS, but it might be because of how many people are on your map. The cheap work-around is to overclock your CPU, but please monitor your temps and consider getting a better CPU cooler, if your current one isn't.

I'm not sure that the amount of people in the game is the problem, but I do agree that my cpu is the bottleneck. I'm getting the same cpu usage in an empty server.

 

[dontlistentome]

How is your CPU usage when you're just on your desktop and not running a game? Maybe you have something going on in the background that you didn't realize.

 

[Dingleberg]

How is your CPU usage when you're just on your desktop and not running a game? Maybe you have something going on in the background that you didn't realize.

Currently my open applications are Firefox, HWMonitor, Steam, and TS3. If I'm not moving my mouse my cpu usage is about 6%, but if I move my mouse around it goes to 22% and stays there.