I’m having CPU usage problems

[JaronTheKraken]

I added a list of my parts down below, I think I did pretty well with the price on some of the parts. The cpu was brand new, the graphics card was well taken care of and only used for around 2 months prior to my build. I’m having trouble playing terraria, and shellshock. I’m pretty sure this pc should be able to handle these games at least, but it keeps “bottlenecking” the usage to almost 100% every time.

 

I’m downloading rainbow six currently from epic games, it’s the only thing running and it’s kicked 100% again. 

Does anyone know what the issue may be? It’s a fresh build and it’s my first build. 

PC Build ($393.50).pdf

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, JaronTheKraken said:

 

Just open your task manager and see what's using all of your CPU.

Dunno what that performance monitoring software is, but you should probably just turn that off too as it may be affecting performance.

[JaronTheKraken]

4 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Just open your task manager and see what's using all of your CPU.

Dunno what that performance monitoring software is, but you should probably just turn that off too as it may be affecting performance.

Okay, thanks. It’s still eating a big portion of it up.

I have avast running as well, but I suppose I need it for an antivirus 

[Fasauceome]

Damn gotta download your parts list? I suggest replacing that with a good old pcpartpicker list.

 

As for the download using up all CPU resources, not surprising. The 8350 has a lot of shared resources between the cores so once the download is over with you will see the usage go down, but I believe there's a download speed limiter in the epic games launcher that will make it so that the CPU is handling a lot less data all at once.

[JaronTheKraken]

1 minute ago, Fasauceome said:

Damn gotta download your parts list? I suggest replacing that with a good old pcpartpicker list.

 

As for the download using up all CPU resources, not surprising. The 8350 has a lot of shared resources between the cores so once the download is over with you will see the usage go down, but I believe there's a download speed limiter in the epic games launcher that will make it so that the CPU is handling a lot less data all at once.

PCPartPicker Part List

Type	Item	Price
CPU	AMD FX-8350 4 GHz 8-Core Processor	$175.89 @ OutletPC
Motherboard	Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
Memory	Patriot G2 Series Division 2 Edition 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Storage	Inland 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive	$32.99 @ Amazon
Storage	Seagate Barracuda 500 GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card	Asus Radeon RX 570 4 GB ROG STRIX Video Card	$298.00 @ Amazon
Case	DIYPC Zondda ATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply	SeaSonic FOCUS Plus Gold 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit	$139.89 @ OutletPC
	Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts
	Total (before mail-in rebates)	$656.77
	Mail-in rebates	-$10.00
	Total	$646.77
	Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-09-05 01:26 EDT-0400

 

[Streetguru]

3 minutes ago, JaronTheKraken said:

 

Just uninstall avast lol, all it's doing is spying on you, anit-virus software is basically useless.

I've never installed the epic launcher so I don't know if that's normal, dunno why it would need to do that though anyways.

[JaronTheKraken]

2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Just uninstall avast lol, all it's doing is spying on you, anit-virus software is basically useless.

I've never installed the epic launcher so I don't know if that's normal, dunno why it would need to do that though anyways.

Okay, that performance monitor you were questioning comes with advanced system care. 

 

I’ll uninstall avast.

[JaronTheKraken]

Thanks for the help guys

[Streetguru]

7 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

Damn gotta download your parts list? I suggest replacing that with a good old pcpartpicker list.

 

As for the download using up all CPU resources, not surprising. The 8350 has a lot of shared resources between the cores so once the download is over with you will see the usage go down, but I believe there's a download speed limiter in the epic games launcher that will make it so that the CPU is handling a lot less data all at once.

 

1 minute ago, JaronTheKraken said:

Okay, that performance monitor you were questioning comes with advanced system care. 

 

I’ll uninstall avast.

Even if it's an FX chip, it's not like steam ever used 100% of your CPU while downloading a game.

It seems to just be a thing with the epic launcher

https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/feedback-for-epic/1487376-epic-launcher-high-cpu-usage

[Fasauceome]

1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

Even if it's an FX chip, it's not like steam ever used 100% of your CPU while downloading a game.

Steam's download manager doesn't allow the CPU to get used up all the way, but if it could the download speeds could be improved. Generally it's good practice to have a download limiter on by default, the battle.net launcher does as well, but epic does not seem to do so and hogs CPU usage.

[Streetguru]

Just now, Fasauceome said:

Steam's download manager doesn't allow the CPU to get used up all the way, but if it could the download speeds could be improved. Generally it's good practice to have a download limiter on by default, the battle.net launcher does as well, but epic does not seem to do so and hogs CPU usage.

Even if I saturate my 100mbps connection my CPU never even gets close to being used much during a download.

[JaronTheKraken]

It’s not just this launcher, it’s in terraria, and shellshock as well. Not sure if they’re heavy cpu games. But they’re not playable currently with it bumping to 100% on both. 

[Streetguru]

1 minute ago, JaronTheKraken said:

It’s not just this launcher, it’s in terraria, and shellshock as well. Not sure if they’re heavy cpu games. But they’re not playable currently with it bumping to 100% on both. 

Probably just try a clean install of windows sometime to start with

[seagate_surfer]

A clean install or also trying to repar the OS with the following commands may help:

1. CHKDSK

2. sfc /scannow