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Thank you both for the input.. I guess it's just a dumb theory of mine. Thinking of upgrading soon

I was just wondering how Valorant can cause 95-99 percent CPU usage while it's the only thing running on my system when I'm playing it. I do stream on this pc and I am suspicious that the high CPU usage spikes is causing my stream to have occasional fps drops when I'm playing Valorant. Keep in mind that this never happens when I stream other games. Even Valhalla runs smooth on my 720p 30fps stream. My system specs are: i3 8100 GTX 1060 6gb 16gb ram dual channel 3200mhz WD Green SATA SSD 240g I find this very odd as all my other games are on my HDD and the games I play there are AC: Valhalla, Genshin Impact, RotR, SotTR. These games never caused high CPU usage/spikes. They normally sit at 60-85% which doesn't cause my stream to lag. I will appreciate any thoughts about this.. Thank you so much!