Recently when playing games with my friends(so i also have discord running) i have been experiencing lag spikes and task manager says my CPU (i5 4460) is maxed out. Battlefield 1 and 5 are the main culprits (they are unplayable when discord or other applications are open), however other games that i have played recently e.g. sea of thieves and the forest have a couple of bad lag spikes occasionally and CPU usage is around 85%. my friend built his PC at the same time as me and has a marginally better i5 CPU from the same generation and hasn't experienced many lag spikes. Is my CPU just old and past its best or should i try to fix it and if so how? I have a GTX 1070 so i don't imagine that to be the bottleneck
Thanks for the replies, i'm just getting a laptop soon for uni so i just wondered if there was a quick fix to make these last few months of playing games with my mates a bit of aetter experience