CPU usage is high effortlessly

[patrickin]

I recently upgraded from a 1050 TI/R3 2200G to a 3070/i5 12400F. Ever since I upgraded, I never felt like it was a new PC. Things stuttered, took a long time to load and even crashed at sometimes. I thought maybe that was normal because I use an old Sata SSD, but now I really don't think it is. Only a few load of games actually worked ever since I upgraded, which were God of War, that run in 4k with DLSS Quality beautifully... and RDR2 which also was in 4k with DLSS Quality. Never had any problem with these games at all.

 

But playing Fornite, my framerate is literal hell. I can hit 150fps and not long enough it will drop massively to low 100s, even 70s and 30s constantly. The same thing goes for Spider-Man Remastered, my GPU usage never really escapes my CPU usage unless I use higher resolutions. Shouldn't I get great FPS playing at 1080p with this GPU and CPU? I've tried every setting and nothing seems to work - even in 1080p my game is always this 60 to 40 in an instance experience. So much stutter, textures not loading properly and loading right in front of me, horrible frametimes....

 

Almost every game is like this on my PC. And now, with the launch of Hogwarts Legacy my PC is giving a 40 fps experience with 50% GPU usage and 30% CPU usage. It can go up to 60% GPU but that's it.  It doesn't go higher. Never. I know the game is horribly optimized for PC but my cousin has a 2060 and a i7 10700f and is running the game beautifully. I don't know what to do anymore.

 

GeForce RTX 3070 GALAX

Intel Core i5 12400F

RAM Memory Kingston Fury Beast 2x16 (3200mhz x 2400mhz both XMP'd to 3200mhz)

Motherboard B660 TUF Gaming Intel LGA 1700

Fonte Corsair CV650W

SSD SATA 128GB Sandisk 

HD 1TB Seagate

 

OBS; I had a problem that I used two older RAM sticks at once, 1x8 2111mhz and 1x16 3600mhz. That made my CPU always go to 70% and my GPU to 20%.

Could the RAM be the problem here once again? 

[PDifolco]

10 minutes ago, patrickin said:

I recently upgraded from a 1050 TI/R3 2200G to a 3070/i5 12400F. Ever since I upgraded, I never felt like it was a new PC. Things stuttered, took a long time to load and even crashed at sometimes. I thought maybe that was normal because I use an old Sata SSD, but now I really don't think it is. Only a few load of games actually worked ever since I upgraded, which were God of War, that run in 4k with DLSS Quality beautifully... and RDR2 which also was in 4k with DLSS Quality. Never had any problem with these games at all.

 

But playing Fornite, my framerate is literal hell. I can hit 150fps and not long enough it will drop massively to low 100s, even 70s and 30s constantly. The same thing goes for Spider-Man Remastered, my GPU usage never really escapes my CPU usage unless I use higher resolutions. Shouldn't I get great FPS playing at 1080p with this GPU and CPU? I've tried every setting and nothing seems to work - even in 1080p my game is always this 60 to 40 in an instance experience. So much stutter, textures not loading properly and loading right in front of me, horrible frametimes....

 

Almost every game is like this on my PC. And now, with the launch of Hogwarts Legacy my PC is giving a 40 fps experience with 50% GPU usage and 30% CPU usage. It can go up to 60% GPU but that's it.  It doesn't go higher. Never. I know the game is horribly optimized for PC but my cousin has a 2060 and a i7 10700f and is running the game beautifully. I don't know what to do anymore.

 

GeForce RTX 3070 GALAX

Intel Core i5 12400F

RAM Memory Kingston Fury Beast 2x16 (3200mhz x 2400mhz both XMP'd to 3200mhz)

Motherboard B660 TUF Gaming Intel LGA 1700

Fonte Corsair CV650W

SSD SATA 128GB Sandisk 

HD 1TB Seagate

 

OBS; I had a problem that I used two older RAM sticks at once, 1x8 2111mhz and 1x16 3600mhz. That made my CPU always go to 70% and my GPU to 20%.

Could the RAM be the problem here once again? 

Your RAM is limited by the old 2133 stick so yes it can really limit your performance in memory intensive games

If I were you I'll do this

Get another 16GB RAM stick 3600 same model ($50)

Might as well get a boot NVme drive (1TB Gen3 $60ish)

BIOS update

Windows reinstall

GPU drivers reinstall

[jaslion]

Did you reinstall windows or reuse the old drive with windows from your ryzen pc?

 

 

[DarkD]

33 minutes ago, patrickin said:

I recently upgraded from a 1050 TI/R3 2200G to a 3070/i5 12400F. Ever since I upgraded, I never felt like it was a new PC. Things stuttered, took a long time to load and even crashed at sometimes. I thought maybe that was normal because I use an old Sata SSD, but now I really don't think it is. Only a few load of games actually worked ever since I upgraded, which were God of War, that run in 4k with DLSS Quality beautifully... and RDR2 which also was in 4k with DLSS Quality. Never had any problem with these games at all.

 

But playing Fornite, my framerate is literal hell. I can hit 150fps and not long enough it will drop massively to low 100s, even 70s and 30s constantly. The same thing goes for Spider-Man Remastered, my GPU usage never really escapes my CPU usage unless I use higher resolutions. Shouldn't I get great FPS playing at 1080p with this GPU and CPU? I've tried every setting and nothing seems to work - even in 1080p my game is always this 60 to 40 in an instance experience. So much stutter, textures not loading properly and loading right in front of me, horrible frametimes....

 

Almost every game is like this on my PC. And now, with the launch of Hogwarts Legacy my PC is giving a 40 fps experience with 50% GPU usage and 30% CPU usage. It can go up to 60% GPU but that's it.  It doesn't go higher. Never. I know the game is horribly optimized for PC but my cousin has a 2060 and a i7 10700f and is running the game beautifully. I don't know what to do anymore.

 

GeForce RTX 3070 GALAX

Intel Core i5 12400F

RAM Memory Kingston Fury Beast 2x16 (3200mhz x 2400mhz both XMP'd to 3200mhz)

Motherboard B660 TUF Gaming Intel LGA 1700

Fonte Corsair CV650W

SSD SATA 128GB Sandisk 

HD 1TB Seagate

 

OBS; I had a problem that I used two older RAM sticks at once, 1x8 2111mhz and 1x16 3600mhz. That made my CPU always go to 70% and my GPU to 20%.

Could the RAM be the problem here once again? 

U should try what the other guys told you first but it can also be some corrupted files or malware on your storage so do a throughout checkup with any anti virus software 

[Ch F]

Im assuming that you have most of these games on your hard drive, which might be a serious bottleneck due to the fact that they are very slow with lots of delay and most modern games use a lot of texture streaming directly from your hard drive. Maybe you could try installing the games that you have the problem with on your ssd and see if the performance improves.

[patrickin]

42 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Your RAM is limited by the old 2133 stick so yes it can really limit your performance in memory intensive games

If I were you I'll do this

Get another 16GB RAM stick 3600 same model ($50)

Might as well get a boot NVme drive (1TB Gen3 $60ish)

BIOS update

Windows reinstall

GPU drivers reinstall

 

So, my memory is one stick 3200mhz and one stick is 2400mhz. Both of them are using XMP 1 to 3200mhz. Could this still be the problem? Because they're the same but the only different thing is the speed, which is put as 3200mhz thanks to XMP.

 

 

I bought a new 3200mhz RAM and I'm going to test it to see if the problems go away as soon as I get it. 

Also, I wanted to use the two NVMe ports in my MoBo for gaming. Would it be bad if I bought another SATA just for Windows? Really don't want to occupy my NVMe slots with Windows.

 

37 minutes ago, jaslion said:

Did you reinstall windows or reuse the old drive with windows from your ryzen pc?

23 minutes ago, DarkD said:

U should try what the other guys told you first but it can also be some corrupted files or malware on your storage so do a throughout checkup with any anti virus software 

I also thought this could be a problem so I re-installed Windows and every driver three times. Still persisted. 

 

22 minutes ago, Ch F said:

Im assuming that you have most of these games on your hard drive, which might be a serious bottleneck due to the fact that they are very slow with lots of delay and most modern games use a lot of texture streaming directly from your hard drive. Maybe you could try installing the games that you have the problem with on your ssd and see if the performance improves.

Is it really that much of a bottleneck? Because Red Dead Redemption is fine, so is God of War. My cousin uses a 3TB HDD and has no problems whatsoever. I'm gonna buy a NVMe SSD and try it out just to be sure. 

[PDifolco]

17 minutes ago, patrickin said:

 

So, my memory is one stick 3200mhz and one stick is 2400mhz. Both of them are using XMP 1 to 3200mhz. Could this still be the problem? Because they're the same but the only different thing is the speed, which is put as 3200mhz thanks to XMP.

 

 

I bought a new 3200mhz RAM and I'm going to test it to see if the problems go away as soon as I get it. 

Also, I wanted to use the two NVMe ports in my MoBo for gaming. Would it be bad if I bought another SATA just for Windows? Really don't want to occupy my NVMe slots with Windows.

 

I also thought this could be a problem so I re-installed Windows and every driver three times. Still persisted. 

 

Is it really that much of a bottleneck? Because Red Dead Redemption is fine, so is God of War. My cousin uses a 3TB HDD and has no problems whatsoever. I'm gonna buy a NVMe SSD and try it out just to be sure. 

Ok about RAM it's surprising that your old stick can get to 3200, but then you indeed have decently fast RAM

Don't get your point about *not* having Windows on a NVme, as it's the best place to put it into !!!

 

[jaslion]

46 minutes ago, patrickin said:

they're the same but the only different thing is the speed, which is put as 3200mhz thanks to XMP.

Try 2400 or 2133 and see what that gives. Or just turn of xmp could be that its just outta range for proper stability at 3200

 

What game(s) are issues?

 

 

[patrickin]

2 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Ok about RAM it's surprising that your old stick can get to 3200, but then you indeed have decently fast RAM

Don't get your point about *not* having Windows on a NVme, as it's the best place to put it into !!!

 

It's mainly because I want my games to have the best storage possible and not worry about constant apps taking my storage (I install a lot of stuff).

 

1 hour ago, jaslion said:

Try 2400 or 2133 and see what that gives. Or just turn of xmp could be that its just outta range for proper stability at 3200

 

What game(s) are issues?

 

 

So, I have four slots of DDR4 memory. The first and the third one don't work with both memories; I can get to the BIOS but after I try to start up windows it's either a blue screen of death or a orange light in the motherboard. The same goes for disabling XMP. However, the second and fourth slot works perfectly fine, with both memories at 3200mhz. When I try to change it to anything other than 3000 or 3200, there's not Windows boot, straight back at BIOS.

 

Maybe these RAM sticks are defective? Although, my test on UserBenchmark says they're working perfectly fine. 

 

The games that are awful on my computer are Fortnite, Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered and Hogwarts Legacy. I haven't tried anymore FPS but I think they'll probably suck a lot, since they're targeting high FPS counts and my computer can't maintain them.

 

[Ch F]

33 minutes ago, patrickin said:

The games that are awful on my computer are Fortnite, Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered and Hogwarts Legacy. I haven't tried anymore FPS but I think they'll probably suck a lot, since they're targeting high FPS counts and my computer can't maintain them.

3 hours ago, patrickin said:

Is it really that much of a bottleneck? Because Red Dead Redemption is fine, so is God of War. My cousin uses a 3TB HDD and has no problems whatsoever. I'm gonna buy a NVMe SSD and try it out just to be sure. 

If that is the case, then that would make sense, as both red dead and god of war are optimized to run on last gen consoles which have particularly slow storage. Your cousin may not have the issue because hard drives differ massively in speed due to density, RPM and cache. If you buy the NMVe, update me on how it runs from that

[jaslion]

8 hours ago, patrickin said:

It's mainly because I want my games to have the best storage possible and not worry about constant apps taking my storage (I install a lot of stuff).

 

So, I have four slots of DDR4 memory. The first and the third one don't work with both memories; I can get to the BIOS but after I try to start up windows it's either a blue screen of death or a orange light in the motherboard. The same goes for disabling XMP. However, the second and fourth slot works perfectly fine, with both memories at 3200mhz. When I try to change it to anything other than 3000 or 3200, there's not Windows boot, straight back at BIOS.

 

Maybe these RAM sticks are defective? Although, my test on UserBenchmark says they're working perfectly fine. 

 

The games that are awful on my computer are Fortnite, Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered and Hogwarts Legacy. I haven't tried anymore FPS but I think they'll probably suck a lot, since they're targeting high FPS counts and my computer can't maintain them.

 

You can try running memtest 86

 

These are absolutly not stable memoty sticks so yeah would not be surprised if those are the issue

 

As for storage. We:ve had direct storage for 4 years now and it still hasnt done anything