Crysis 3 stuttering w/ 290X

[Buckley]

So ive been playing through the crysis series and now in crysis 3 during cut scenes and during regular game play, every few seconds the game stutters terribly. im looking at the GPU usage at its at 100%, which i expected. but then i looked at CPU usage and it was at max 20% even during game play. the cards not not either. could it be a driver issue? im on 14.6.

 

i have an 8350 at 4.7ghz atm

 

and the game is maxed out

[deviant88]

Can be a thousand things honestly its hard to tell,take a look at cpu usage for each core is there any core maxing out 100% while others are unused or low usage? 

 

Try lower settings one a time too,you should be able to run C3 no problem maxed on 290x but there might be a setting or two eating resource really badly, try lower/turn off setting one at a time and test.

[Buckley]

Can be a thousand things honestly its hard to tell,take a look at cpu usage for each core is there any core maxing out 100% while others are unused or low usage?

Try lower settings one a time too,you should be able to run C3 no problem maxed on 290x but there might be a setting or two eating resource really badly, try lower/turn off setting one at a time and test.

CPU usage is all over the place

[MeesterJackson]

CPU usage is all over the place

That's weird. C3 is heavily dependent on GPU, the only time when CPU matters is when you have anything lower than an i5/8350. 

[Ryan Ewen]

Same issue happens on my machine as well.

 

Core i5 4690k

XFX R9 290

8GB DDR3 1600mhz

No OCing

14.9.1 Beta drivers

 

I thought it was VRMs overheating but they don't get as hot as I see others with VRM issues. I also don't run into the issue in Titanfall which gets the VRMs to the same temps.

 

I'm on low/med settings (UHD res, though).

[shawno]

Two things to try..

Turn off origin overlay in game properties in origin by right clicking the game icon in origin.

Or

Exit rivatuner if you have msi afterburner

[Redpalmtree]

I could max out Crysis 3 on my 8350/7970ghz on 1080p, with my 8350 on 4ghz, without stuttering, so it shouldn't be your CPU. 

 

My friend with a 3770k and a 770 had this problem though, made it unplayable. But we never found out what the problem was

[Humbug]

use GPU-z to check if your GPU is throttling.