High cpu usage while gaming

[Ruboka]

PC:

ASRock Fatal1ty z97x killer

i5 4690k @ 3.5 ghz

MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G ( newest drivers installed)

Win 7 64 bit home premium( newest updates installed )

16 gb Crucial Ballistix Sport ddr3 ram 1600 mhz

Dual Monitor Setup:

1080p acer s243hl (via HDMI)

1440p Benq GW2765 (via DVI )

 

 

 

Hello there ,

 

i wonder if its normal that the cpu usage while gaming overwatch is quite high(80-100(!) % usage load). I play overwatch and all other games on the 1080p monitor because my setup is more confortable by doing it like that.

the usage is while running overwatch only near 80-85%  in-game and 50% in the start menu. normally i am also running discord and shadowplay (only for loacal record and even than only background record the last 5 minutes) and nothing else.

I also got during testing it under bioshock infinite( all settings maxed out, over 200fps)  the message from windows that the color scheme is making performance problems and should be changed(i use win 7 with aero design)(never happened in overwatch).

In MGS:5 Gronud Zeroes and the new ftp unreal tournament( all settings maxed out ) the cpu usage is in both games around 50%.

It seems to be only overwatch with the high cpu usage.

 

Has anyone an idea why or have the same isssues?

[Matias_Chambers]

Overwatch is pretty CPU intensive like most games nowadays. 

[Dabombinable]

2 minutes ago, Ruboka said:

PC:

ASRock Fatal1ty z97x killer

i5 4690k @ 3.5 ghz

MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G ( newest drivers installed)

Win 7 64 bit home premium( newest updates installed )

16 gb Crucial Ballistix Sport ddr3 ram 1600 mhz

Dual Monitor Setup:

1080p acer s243hl (via HDMI)

1440p Benq GW2765 (via DVI )

 

 

 

Hello there ,

 

i wonder if its normal that the cpu usage while gaming overwatch is quite high(80-100(!) % usage load). I play overwatch and all other games on the 1080p monitor because my setup is more confortable by doing it like that.

the usage is while running overwatch only near 80-85%  in-game and 50% in the start menu. normally i am also running discord and shadowplay (only for loacal record and even than only background record the last 5 minutes) and nothing else.

I also got during testing it under bioshock infinite( all settings maxed out, over 200fps)  the message from windows that the color scheme is making performance problems and should be changed(i use win 7 with aero design)(never happened in overwatch).

In MGS:5 Gronud Zeroes and the new ftp unreal tournament( all settings maxed out ) the cpu usage is in both games around 50%.

It seems to be only overwatch with the high cpu usage.

 

Has anyone an idea why or have the same isssues?

Unfortunately, with more recent games i5 seem to be struggling-even running my i5 4440 at 3.4GHz (BCLK overclocked) and it struggled in games such as Fallout 4-especially when downtown and in the rain.

[Imglidinhere]

29 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Unfortunately, with more recent games i5 seem to be struggling-even running my i5 4440 at 3.4GHz (BCLK overclocked) and it struggled in games such as Fallout 4-especially when downtown and in the rain.

Fallout 4 I THINK only uses a pair of cores though, so raw clockspeed matters a lot more for games like that when compared to actually increasing your core count. However yeah, overclocking is definitely recommended.

 

You have a K-branded CPU dude. Push that thing to at least 4.5GHz and you should be good. 

[Dabombinable]

29 minutes ago, Imglidinhere said:

Fallout 4 I THINK only uses a pair of cores though, so raw clockspeed matters a lot more for games like that when compared to actually increasing your core count. However yeah, overclocking is definitely recommended.

 

You have a K-branded CPU dude. Push that thing to at least 4.5GHz and you should be good. 

The i5 4440 was one of the reasons to get my 4790K (which can do 4.8GHz at 1.3V-probably lower but I haven't tweaked it properly). And FO4 uses all 8 threads on my 4790K-even Skyrim does as well.

[Imglidinhere]

10 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

The i5 4440 was one of the reasons to get my 4790K (which can do 4.8GHz at 1.3V-probably lower but I haven't tweaked it properly). And FO4 uses all 8 threads on my 4790K-even Skyrim does as well.

Skyrim only uses a pair of threads and that's a confirmed notion. Everyone I've seen talking about it states that their i7s are "only at 25% usage on all cores".

 

That and I have only ever seen 50% usage on my i5 when playing.

[FPS-Russia]

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[Dabombinable]

7 hours ago, Imglidinhere said:

Skyrim only uses a pair of threads and that's a confirmed notion. Everyone I've seen talking about it states that their i7s are "only at 25% usage on all cores".

 

That and I have only ever seen 50% usage on my i5 when playing.

Skyrim uses more than 2 threads. I should know, I ran it on my E8500 for shits and giggles at 4.4GHz with my GTX 970, and had a massive performance boost by simply switching to a Xeon X5450, which was left at its stock clock of 3GHz. Combined with the fact that I have my i5 4440 right behind me in the H87 motherboard that I bought for it, and ran the same games with it and my GTX 970 that I do with my 4790K-an i7 makes a noticeable difference-and a large one at that in recent games.

[LogicalDrm]

Sounds pretty normal. Is this causing fps drops or something that disturbs your gaming? The Windows performance warning is known bug in Win7. You can make it happen less frequently by increasing active pagefile size, but its just not possible to disable it. It isn't related to CPU usage, but pagefile usage. It comes when pagefile is all used for few secs when game loads new maps etc.