High CPU utilization

[3llyas]

Hi, i seem to have found an issue where my cpu utilization while playing valorant is really high where it sits at 60+% while even idling in main menu.

 

Many of the benchmarks i see online all sit comfortably at 30% or so im not sure why. I have tried reinstalling as well and not working.

[Hinjima]

1 minute ago, 3llyas said:

Hi, i seem to have found an issue where my cpu utilization while playing valorant is really high where it sits at 60+% while even idling in main menu.

 

 

Many of the benchmarks i see online all sit comfortably at 30% or so im not sure why. I have tried reinstalling as well and not working.

Question is.. Are you using the same components as the ones in the benchmark videos?

[Dreckssackblase]

probably because your FPS arent limited in the menu and you are doing 740 FPS ?

[3llyas]

1 minute ago, Dreckssackblase said:

probably because your FPS arent limited in the menu and you are doing 740 FPS ?

maybe in the menu yea but in game i set a limit to 250 but still uses quite a chunk

[3llyas]

3 minutes ago, Hinjima said:

Question is.. Are you using the same components as the ones in the benchmark videos?

yepp

i5 12400
16GB RAm 3600 even for mine
3070

[podkall]

Esports game,

 

unlocked fps in menu,

 

no issues.

 

High utilization isn't a problem unless you're stuttering or when it shouldn't be high, this isn't the situation.

 

Just now, 3llyas said:

maybe in the menu yea but in game i set a limit to 250 but still uses quite a chunk

CPU is utilized because it's "working" there's no issue.

[3llyas]

2 minutes ago, podkall said:

isn't a problem unless you're stuttering

yea but that is what i'm experiencing due to the high utilization, the limit fps in game is 250 yet the cpu utilization hits up to 65-70%

[3llyas]

all of the benchmark with similar components i have seen can reach 200+ fps with cpu only at ~30%

 

[Dreckssackblase]

Are you running the same settings / resolution as those benchmarks ?

[podkall]

2 minutes ago, 3llyas said:

yea but that is what i'm experiencing due to the high utilization, the limit fps in game is 250 yet the cpu utilization hits up to 65-70%

How many Discords, Firefoxes, Chromes, Anti-Viruses, Cloud Storages, other software is running in the background?

[SpookyCitrus]

39 minutes ago, 3llyas said:

all of the benchmark with similar components i have seen can reach 200+ fps with cpu only at ~30%

 

Every system regardless of components being the same is going to run differently. Directly comparing yours to a benchmark on YouTube is a fools errand. You're never going to get exactly what they do. Hardware isn't the only thing that determines how a game will run on a certain system. Software, Drivers, Bios settings, Resolution, Game settings, Game version, Driver versions, etc. The list goes on. I'd recommend removing any unnecessary programs from startup and make sure you close programs that aren't critical to you computer functioning or playing the game before you start playing. You want essentially only the game running, and maybe discord if you play with friends. Nothing else. Make sure drivers are up to date and give it a shot like that. 

[podkall]

1 hour ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Every system regardless of components being the same is going to run differently. Directly comparing yours to a benchmark on YouTube is a fools errand.

Benchmarks run while everything else is closed, no Discord, no music, nothing, and on YT the recording is illustrative and while it was benched the recording software was also not running.

 

Same with small things like running game off of HDD vs SSD, I have HDD, it's not slow, it loads games fine, but it's still way different experience than games that are installed on my NVME drive.

[3llyas]

11 hours ago, podkall said:

How many Discords, Firefoxes, Chromes, Anti-Viruses, Cloud Storages, other software is running in the background?

Non were running, only thing running is Valorant and when not open CPU sits at 10-15% utilization and once the game runs it ramps up to 65-70%.
 

10 hours ago, SpookyCitrus said:

Every system regardless of components being the same is going to run differently. Directly comparing yours to a benchmark on YouTube is a fools errand.

Yes, of course. But generally for all the similar performing hardware with mine it should be sitting at around that area comfortably hence why I'm unsure why it is eating a lot of the CPU util in which, I can't even run discord without the game stuttering. And like what I said above it is fine outside of the game heck even playing CS2 does not have that high of utilization which is a CPU bound game too. 

[podkall]

4 hours ago, 3llyas said:

Non were running, only thing running is Valorant and when not open CPU sits at 10-15% utilization and once the game runs it ramps up to 65-70%.
 

Yes, of course. But generally for all the similar performing hardware with mine it should be sitting at around that area comfortably hence why I'm unsure why it is eating a lot of the CPU util in which, I can't even run discord without the game stuttering. And like what I said above it is fine outside of the game heck even playing CS2 does not have that high of utilization which is a CPU bound game too. 

could be a Valorant related problem, does the game draw 60% when it's running from the CPU if you look at task manager apps?

[3llyas]

8 minutes ago, podkall said:

could be a Valorant related problem, does the game draw 60% when it's running from the CPU if you look at task manager apps?

will check again once back home! and appreciate all the responses

[SpookyCitrus]

13 hours ago, 3llyas said:

Yes, of course. But generally for all the similar performing hardware with mine it should be sitting at around that area comfortably hence why I'm unsure why it is eating a lot of the CPU util in which, I can't even run discord without the game stuttering. And like what I said above it is fine outside of the game heck even playing CS2 does not have that high of utilization which is a CPU bound game too. 

In my full response you even quoted, I explained how there a many more things to be taken into account, driver versions, bios version, game version, game settings, and resolution and a few more things all play factors in performance as well. If you're watching a video from a couple months to a few years ago, the drivers and game version could differ drastically from what you have and be causing the problem. All I was saying is there is a lot more to take into account than just your similar hardware. This is something that is asked on this forum daily. You're not the only person to come on here worried about not getting the same performance metrics as YouTube benchmarks and you won't be the last. Pretty much every single one I have helped, we figured out it was the game or some software or driver that caused the differing performance, a few were actual hardware problems or the benchmarker was overclocking their hardware skewing results. There are many factors at play here and it takes some time to troubleshoot and figure out. If other games are running as they should it's likely just the current game version of Valorant has performance/optimization issues.