i5 6600k 100% cpu usage

[chriseckart]

Specs: asus z170 pro gaming, 16g gddr4 corsair ram @ 2666mhz, Nvidia GTX Gigabyte 1070, Intel I5 6600k.

I am having an issue where my cpu usage in all of my games such as, Miscreated, The Culling, ETC... Are hitting 100% cpu usage on all 4 cores. I have done the windows regedit hack and nothing, Im running on win 10 os. For the first two weeks Everything worked properly. Just did fresh install of windows in case it was a software issue and it still maxes out the cpu usage. My games will run at 60fps+ then the cpu hits 100 and it drops to 1 fps and even freezes. I have scanned for malware with malwarebytes, Turned off all processes for startup that weren't needed and all that good stuff and its still happening. The problem just occurred and I built this pc 12 days ago and just now started having the issue with the CPU. the only game where I semi don't have an issue is rust where the gpu is at 100% and the Cpu stays around high 80s and 90s. Any troubleshooting solutions would be grand. I have seen a lot of people who have had this problem and I still haven't been able to solve this myself. Thanks for any help.
Also temps are completely fine. They stay idle 30c to 35c then in game they do not get over 55c on max settings

Chris.

 

[chenuki]

Are game processes the ones eating up full CPU? And what's your CPU usage like with V-Sync turned on?

I'd advise you to update the system BIOS. That board in particular has many system stability issues according to BIOS changelog.

Hope this helps.

 

[chriseckart]

Are game processes the ones eating up full CPU? And what's your CPU usage like with V-Sync turned on?

I'd advise you to update the system BIOS. That board in particular has many system stability issues according to BIOS changelog.

Hope this helps.

I just updated bios and it runs the same with v sync turned off and or on. Game processes do this and I can't get antimalware service executable to stop running.

 

[chenuki]

Are you overclocking the i5? If so, have you loaded optimized default BIOS settings or cleared CMOS after BIOS update? May be worth doing both to eliminate the cause from that side of things.

 

[chriseckart]

Are you overclocking the i5? If so, have you loaded optimized default BIOS settings or cleared CMOS after BIOS update? May be worth doing both to eliminate the cause from that side of things.

I did overclock but I went back down to default on everything then updated the bios and loaded optimized bios settings after the update.

 

[chenuki]

I recommend clearing the CMOS next by pulling coin battery or use button on board if it comes with one. We can flush potentially corrupted settings that loading defaults may not override this way.

 

[chriseckart]

I recommend clearing the CMOS next by pulling coin battery or use button on board if it comes with one. We can flush potentially corrupted settings that loading defaults may not override this way.

I will clear the CMOS and let you know what happens. Thank you by the way for the reply.

 

[chenuki]

You're very welcome. I hope it works out.

 

[chriseckart]

You're very welcome. I hope it works out.

Okay, so I did everything that I could. I updated the bios and restored windows. After updating the bios and restoring windows I took a program called "Antimalware service executable" and turned it completely off. It was using 20% of the cpu and higher and so on and so forth. After doing all of that I ran the culling for about and hour in windowed while monitoring temps and checking for spikes and it ran smoothly. I ran the more graphic and cpu intensive, miscreated and the cpu usage and temperature all stayed down and everything seemed to work very well. No shutter. No freezing. All was well. For anyone else having this problem, I suggest wiping windows clean and doing a fresh install, if it's still using high usage, check the processes inside of task manager and see what it is hogging the cpu and look it up. Because that process may very well be one that you do not need. Then disable all that you see not needed. Making sure that your bios is up to date and supports your chip. Videos on YouTube will show you how to update the bios. Then when all of that is said and done, it could go both ways. Try running in safe mode and see if the problem still persists and if it doesn't then it's software related and it may be an update, Windows defender, etc.. that's assuming that you have windows 10. Thank you for the quick replies. I hope this worked for everyone like it worked for me.

 

[chenuki]

Glad to hear you have this resolved.

If you need a malware protection with less performance hit than Windows Defender, I recommend Bitdefender, it can automatically switch to game profile to minimize CPU impact in games.