My CPU is broken?

[dannzxdyt]

Today I played Fortnite and everything was running great, then I took a break for some hours to do other things. When I came back I started Fortnite as usual, and when I got in to the acutal game, it was freezing every 10 seconds at least. My cpu was at 100% almost all the time. But a few hours before the game ran perfectly. If you could, please help!

 

[anotherdrew]

This could be a lot of different things. Was the CPU at 100% because of the game or because some background process. I assume you rebooted the computer, did that help? This could also be a temperature issue, especially if this was a laptop that you put down on a bed (so that the vent holes got covered). Is the CPU broken ... while possible, that is pretty low on my list of possibilities. Give us more information about the computer, the cpu, video, memory, etc. What have you done in an attempt to fix it?

 

[dannzxdyt]

This could be a lot of different things. Was the CPU at 100% because of the game or because some background process. I assume you rebooted the computer, did that help? This could also be a temperature issue, especially if this was a laptop that you put down on a bed (so that the vent holes got covered). Is the CPU broken ... while possible, that is pretty low on my list of possibilities. Give us more information about the computer, the cpu, video, memory, etc. What have you done in an attempt to fix it?

It's not a laptop.. I just shut down the computer to eat food, and when i came back the game was just freezing, and it was not possible to play. Yes, I rebooted the PC obviously, but didn't help. The CPU was at 100% because of the game AND background things. (The game 70ish and other things the rest.. I think you know math.) Nothing could had happend physically to the computer, I was away max. 20 min.

Specs:
CPU - i3 7100
MOBO - MSI B250I PRO (Mini ITX)
RAM - 8GB Corsair, 2133 Mhz
GPU - Asus GTX 1050ti
SSD - Kingston 128GB
HDD - WD Blue 1TB

 

[Greeko85]

Theres a chance you had some background processes running such as windows update or antivirus scans or even windows deciding to defrag your disks without telling you. When that happens just shutdown the game and investigate whats taking up resources specifically.

 

[dannzxdyt]

Theres a chance you had some background processes running such as windows update or antivirus scans or even windows deciding to defrag your disks without telling you. When that happens just shutdown the game and investigate whats taking up resources specifically.

The only programs that were running was Discord and Steam except all the things windows needs to run.

 

[anotherdrew]

With a dual core processor like yours, it does not take a lot of activity to swamp the CPU and that could easily lead to the game freezing. That said, this extra activity should be transitory and thus the freezing should stop at some point. If the freezing continues after some time or rebooting (which it seems to) then something else is going on. Bring up your resource monitor and let the computer come to idle ( should take 30 seconds - 2 min). CPU activity should drop to 5% or less. If not, you should start looking at potential software issues.

Next, start up some other games (online and offline). Do they also freeze. If not, then this is possibility something specific to Fortnite. Check for file corruption and reset settings.

Next, start a game with the resource monitor and task manager running. Alt-Tab (or you can try running in windowed mode) to see what is happening. Is anything else happening? High memory usage. Lots of disk usage. CPU jumping from one speed to another. Etc

If none of this helps, then it is worth looking at potential hardware issues with overheating of the CPU or GPU being the primary concern. Do you have any monitoring software from MSI or ASUS to see temps?

 

[dannzxdyt]

With a dual core processor like yours, it does not take a lot of activity to swamp the CPU and that could easily lead to the game freezing. That said, this extra activity should be transitory and thus the freezing should stop at some point. If the freezing continues after some time or rebooting (which it seems to) then something else is going on. Bring up your resource monitor and let the computer come to idle ( should take 30 seconds - 2 min). CPU activity should drop to 5% or less. If not, you should start looking at potential software issues.

Next, start up some other games (online and offline). Do they also freeze. If not, then this is possibility something specific to Fortnite. Check for file corruption and reset settings.

Next, start a game with the resource monitor and task manager running. Alt-Tab (or you can try running in windowed mode) to see what is happening. Is anything else happening? High memory usage. Lots of disk usage. CPU jumping from one speed to another. Etc

If none of this helps, then it is worth looking at potential hardware issues with overheating of the CPU or GPU being the primary concern. Do you have any monitoring software from MSI or ASUS to see temps?

I have tried GTA 5 all graphics settings maxed out, without freezing or any lag. And I think it's something with the game thats wrong. I'm probably going to reinstall the game and we will see. Thanks for helping me by the way!

 

[extreme_noob]

Theres a chance you had some background processes running such as windows update or antivirus scans or even windows deciding to defrag your disks without telling you. When that happens just shutdown the game and investigate whats taking up resources specifically.

The only programs that were running was Discord and Steam except all the things windows needs to run.

Even if some programs don't have windows open, they may still; be running. Open task manager and click show more details then scroll down to background processes. That is what I mean.

 

[dannzxdyt]

Theres a chance you had some background processes running such as windows update or antivirus scans or even windows deciding to defrag your disks without telling you. When that happens just shutdown the game and investigate whats taking up resources specifically.

The only programs that were running was Discord and Steam except all the things windows needs to run.

Even if some programs don't have windows open, they may still; be running. Open task manager and click show more details then scroll down to background processes. That is what I mean.

Thats what I meant..

 

[dannzxdyt]

The game now runs like it should do for some reason. Btw I ran GTA 5 at max graphics settings with over 60 fps all the time. Thanks for all the help anyways!!