i5 4690k GTA V problem

[DragonSlayer69]

For some reason every core is running at 95-98% (3.5 stock) during gameplay and its taking a toll on my FPS (30 average). i'm playing the game maxed out (except AA) on 1440p but my 2 r9 280x's are only running at 40%. do i need to overclock my CPU or is it some sort of bug because this has never happened in any of my other games. 

[EarthboundHero]

Is there anything else running?

[Doge_Such_Wow]

check resource monitor to see if anything is running

[techguru]

sounds like you might have a virus or something running

[DragonSlayer69]

Is there anything else running?

oh hey you live in the same city as me, but no i'm only running msi afterburner to see cpu/gpu/mem usage  

[EarthboundHero]

oh hey you live in the same city as me, but no i'm only running msi afterburner to see cpu/gpu/mem usage  

Probably a virus then. Run MBAM.

[lovingGamer]

GTA needs more fixing...

[IateMApoo]

Could be a bitcoin miner using your CPU resources, i assume you dont torrent games.

[Badger906]

could be a rogue windows process.

you could narrow it down though, is there abnormally high cpu load at idle? if yes then it's something a miss, if no, it's a gta issue.

[VortexS]

Some settings are really CPU intensive. Set every setting to the lowest possible and then start turning them back up one by one. After you apply a setting check your CPU usage for big increases. That way you can find the CPU intensive settings and after testing every setting just turn those down a little.