100 CPU usage while gaming?

[Ceroical]

Hi! New to the forums here so my apologies ahead of time if anything I do or say against the guidelines.

 

Anyways, onto my issue. Recently I got a GTX 1070 ROG and 5-3600x, as well as upgrading from 8GB to 16GB ram for my PC, they’ve been great but I’ve noticed problems with my set up which weren’t present before. For an example, my CPU easily hits 100 percent usage in games like Rainbow 6 and Dark Souls, but in both games, I have the graphic settings set to medium. My pc was already running with power performance applied and all my drivers have been updated, but the games still freeze, stutter and crash. With my old i5-4460 and 1050TI, I never had this issue and I played the same games with said parts and they never had that issue. I usually only ever have Discord and my game open, nothing else. 
 

Has anyone got any clue what could be the issue? Anything or any advice would help really, since this has me stumped and very frustrated. (As I’m typing this out, I’m currently resetting my PC to see if this does the trick.)

[kelvinhall05]

Did you clean install Windows, or just move the drives to your new PC?

[Ceroical]

Ironically enough, it keeps telling me, “there was a problem while trying to reset” and it’s preventing me from doing so. So that option is out of the window.  But nah, I simply replaced the olds parts, didn’t reset or have a new install of Windows.

[glenalz81]

1 minute ago, Ceroical said:

“there was a problem while trying to reset”

Still not a fresh install.

 

3 minutes ago, Ceroical said:

So that option is out of the window.  

 

Download the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft and run it. Save to a USB and use that to do a fresh install.

 

 

[Ceroical]

1 minute ago, glenalz81 said:

Still not a fresh install.

 

 

Download the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft and run it. Save to a USB and use that to do a fresh install.

 

 

Oh! Will do. 

[Beowulff83]

Have you tried cranking up the graphics settings to see how it acts?

 

[Ceroical]

I’ve had the graphics lowered and heightened by the same freezing and crashing happens regardless.

[Ceroical]

8 hours ago, glenalz81 said:

Still not a fresh install.

 

 

Download the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft and run it. Save to a USB and use that to do a fresh install.

 

 

So guess what else I can’t do? PC refuses to use the media tool to fix my current version of Windows. This is irritating.

[glenalz81]

8 hours ago, Ceroical said:

PC refuses to use the media tool to fix my current version of Windows

Do not try to fix the system.

 

Boot the system from the USB stick to install a fresh Windows 10.

 

 

[Dr2fix]

If High CPU(100%) usage is causing stuttering /Lag

Even though you have high end PC; try this Fix. Worked for me 9th i7 2060ti

https://youtu.be/I3Nujm8D8ys