100% cpu Usage effecting performance

[Savvii.]

A few days ago my pc started ruinning into issues when playing games. My cpu started to be used at 100% when playing rainbow six siege, but not in other games, which lead me to believe that this was an isolated incident. This would cause my sensitivty to act weird in game. Being much slower than normal. shortly after I started expeiencing the same CPU usage in games like battlefront II and csgo which proves that the issue is not with r6 itself. I spent 2 days trying to determine the issue myself. I originally thought that the issue was with my cpu, but after a support chat with intel, they said that there isnt anything wrong with my CPU. They suggested that it could be because my GPU is not configured propely. Everything was working fine prior to this issue but i will say that i've recently got home form school so I installed all the recent drivers/windows when i got back, approximately 3-4 days before i started seeing issues.

For reference

CPU: i5 4690k clocked at 3.9GHz

GPU: Radeon r9 390

PS: 750W gold 

[NotSoEpicMods]

Run the task manager with the always on top option checked or on a second monitor and have processes tab open with them sorted by cpu usage and see exactly what program is sucking up all your cpu resources while playing games.

[Jarsky]

If you have multiple game launchers running, it might be games trying to update while you're in game, especially if you let your computer sleep / turn it off often. 

You could open Task Manager, and from there open "Resource Monitor" and leave it running. When you get the issue, alt+tab out and check to see what is happening on there. 

[Savvii.]

21 minutes ago, Jarsky said:

If you have multiple game launchers running, it might be games trying to update while you're in game, especially if you let your computer sleep / turn it off often. 

You could open Task Manager, and from there open "Resource Monitor" and leave it running. When you get the issue, alt+tab out and check to see what is happening on there. 

Thank you, this did appear to work. While im still seeing higher than normal CPU usage, game performance seems to be normal again after using task manager to close which ever launcher i wasnt using. I tried on both steam and origin. This issue did start to occur soon after downloading origin which may mean there are some incompatibility issues between steam and origin. Thanks again

[Roswell]

100% usage isn't a bad thing in most circumstances, it means the game is highly threaded and taking full advantage of your chip.

[NineEyeRon]

It’s only bad if the game isn’t the one using most of the CPU, if something else is hogging time then your performance might suffer, unless your CPU is overwhelmed by the game itself.

[WkdPaul]

1 hour ago, Vitamanic said:

100% usage isn't a bad thing in most circumstances, it means the game is highly threaded and taking full advantage of your chip.

Please read what the OP posted, not just the title.

 

@Savvii. I think the issue with Origin is that it doesn't have a way to throttle game downloads and updates, so it'll use 100% of your bandwith and that in turns mean you disk access times and more CPU clocks. Closing any launchers you don't use is the best way to avoid such design flaws from said launchers

[Mick Naughty]

100 is always a bad thing. Unless you are playing mine sweeper or a bottom feeder.

 

Best to monitor the system. Ensure it’s on performance mode and clocks are where they should be.