Weird CPU usage ingame

[Antibull]

Hello guys,

 

Yet another topic about my GPU( GTX 660) since I can't seem to find the problem.

 

When I play GTA V it crashes at random moments and tells my that my drivers stopped working. I tried multiple things nothing worked.

 

Today I decided to test GTA with another GPU the Radeon HD 6450. The game didn't crash for an hour and I saw that my CPU usage was very low , between 50-67% sometimes 73 but never higher. I then decided to use my GTX 660 agian with the same setings as the HD 6450 And when I launched the game my CPU was using in the 90% and never went down. And I know that it was in the 80 to 100% before with higer settings but it seems to be the same on lowest settings and lowest resolution. 

 

Does anyone know what cause my CPU to be at 100% all the time ingame? Is my GPU really dead or can it be the drivers? Would reinstalling Windows help ? 

 

Specs:

CPU: i3 -4160

RAM: 8 GB kingston fury (1dimm)

SSD: 120GB kingston fury (game on this ssd) 120Gb kingston 3k (OS on this one)

GPU: MSI gtx 660 gaming

PSU: EVGA 850wat powernova

[salecar3]

what gta game and what is you cpu

[desertcomputer]

He probably mentioning GTA 5

[Antibull]

what gta game and what is you cpu

 

 

He probably mentioning GTA 5

 

yeah GTA V and a i3-4160. Should have said it  

[minibois]

what gta game and what is you cpu

When I play GTA V

CPU: i3 -4160

[minibois]

yeah GTA V and a i3-4160. Should have said it

In something like Speedfan you could see how much every core is doing, maybe you can take a look there?

[Antibull]

In something like Speedfan you could see how much every core is doing, maybe you can take a look there?

 

Is msi afterburner good enough ? 

[Vavetti]

The CPU needs to work harder with the 660 because it's a more powerfull GPU, so the cpu has to keep it busy to supply more fps. 

[Antibull]

The CPU needs to work harder with the 660 because it's a more powerfull GPU, so the cpu has to keep it busy to supply more fps. 

 

So if I set a max FPS would fix the cpu usage ? 

[Vavetti]

So if I set a max FPS would fix the cpu usage ? 

Yeah it should, but I don't see a problem unless temps are high. 

[BoredErica]

EDIT:

Oops, didn't read correctly.

[Antibull]

Yeah it should, but I don't see a problem unless temps are high. 

 

Well GTA V crashes everytime saying my drivers stopped, and when that happens my cpu is around 100% or even just 100%, When I used the Hd 6450 and had 50-60% I had no crashes at all, so I think that my high CPU usage is the cause of this problem

[minibois]

Is msi afterburner good enough ? 

Can you see per CPU core performance with that?

[Guest Generallee]

Well GTA V crashes everytime saying my drivers stopped, and when that happens my cpu is around 100% or even just 100%, When I used the Hd 6450 and had 50-60% I had no crashes at all, so I think that my high CPU usage is the cause of this problem

 

Your cpu usage changes because it is more or less bottlenecked maybe

[Antibull]

Your cpu usage changes because it is more or less bottlenecked maybe

 

So If i get a new CPU would the crashes stop ? 

 

@Minibois yes it does , gonna run GTA right now with msi afterburner

[Antibull]

Can you see per CPU core performance with that?

 

the results, forgot to take a picture at the same time for my thread 3,4 I got one but was a little after I closed GTA V so just look at the start of the graph 

 

 

but i also see that my GPU usage never exceeds 50 does this mean that if I get an i5 I would even get better performance ?