bottleneck i5-4460

[Recount]

Hi, 

 

I have a gtx 970, i5-4460, 16gb ram, 250gb kingstone ssd. My question for you fine ladies and gents is. When playing GTA V my cpu bottle necks hard. CPU usage starts about 70-80% then creeps up to 100% the game will drop to 1-5 fps after a few seconds go back to normal, with the cpu usage drops back to 70-80% again.

 

Normally (pre drop) the game is running 75-80+ fps.

 

Anyone know how to fix this issue or is it just the cpu can't handle the game i.e I need to drop the graphics settings?

 

Any help would be gratefully received. 

[Castdeath97]

 Normally the i5 4460 won't bottleneck a 970. Check the temperatures of the GPU and CPU.

[Castdeath97]

But drops around 1-5 fps should concern you, it's normal. If you want 100% stable fps turn on V-sync

[Recount]

3 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

 Normally the i5 4460 won't bottleneck a 970. Check the temperatures of the GPU and CPU.

It's the only game that does it - wasn't sure if there was a work  around for it

2 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

But drops around 1-5 fps should concern you, it's normal. If you want 100% stable fps turn on V-sync

Maybe I should have worded that a little better  - I use the word "normal" in the context that when I play other games I don't get any drops, my CPU usage is 30% maxed. 

I will try the V-sync to see if it helps. Thank you 

[ybriK]

You should be looking at your GPU Usage, is it consistently pegged at 95%-99%? If it is then there are no bottlenecks. An i5-4460 will not bottleneck a GTX 970, in fact it can even handle a Titan X.

http://www.techspot.com/review/991-gta-5-pc-benchmarks/page6.html

[Vortez]

i5-4460 is clear bottleneck in GTA V and Crysis 3.

 

Test i5-4460 + GTX 970 in 9 games.

 

[GonzoPoet]

GTA V uses a lot of CPU power. I upgraded from an i5-4430 to an i7-4790k and noticed a huge improvement. 

[Castdeath97]

3 hours ago, Recount said:

It's the only game that does it - wasn't sure if there was a work  around for it

Maybe I should have worded that a little better  - I use the word "normal" in the context that when I play other games I don't get any drops, my CPU usage is 30% maxed. 

I will try the V-sync to see if it helps. Thank you 

GTA V is CPU intensive, so that's to be expected. But 1-5 frames is nothing to worry about.

[Castdeath97]

55 minutes ago, Vortez said:

i5-4460 is clear bottleneck in GTA V and Crysis 3.

 

Test i5-4460 + GTX 970 in 9 games.

 

Can you elaborate?

[Vortez]

43 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

Can you elaborate?

Look at GPU load when playing GTA V and Crysis 3.

[ybriK]

On 22/07/2016 at 9:27 PM, Vortez said:

i5-4460 is clear bottleneck in GTA V and Crysis 3.

 

Test i5-4460 + GTX 970 in 9 games.

 

Somewhat inaccurate considering the fact that you're using software to record which costs CPU/GPU processing power. It doesn't matter if the software has low CPU/GPU processing needs it still accounts for inaccuracies. Another PC to capture gameplay would definitely display accurate results just like how Digital Foundry does it. Maybe screenshots would give somewhat of an accurate result if another PC to capture gameplay is out of the question.

[GangstaRas]

you running gta 5 on an hdd? its pretty heavy with hdd usage too, maybe that's what caused it more than the CPU. ssd may benefit