I5 6600k bottlenecking ?

[ItsTheSlime]

So i downloaded Battelfield 1 yesterday but i was pretty dissapointed to see that i was getting from 90 fps to 20 fps. I realized that my cpu usage was always at 100% and my gpu usage was between 60 to 90%  My cpu is a i5 6600k and my gpu is a gtx 970. Is this normal? My cpu never gets hotter than 55 degrees and my gpu never above 69 degrees (once got to 98 on crysis 3 with the fans turned off ) i have the latest nvidia drivers and 16 go of ram. Am i doing something wrong? Would overclocking my cpu and gpu help at all? Please answer me i was really looking forward to play bf1.

[Guest]

No it is not normal. 6600k should not be bottlenecked by a 970

[ItsTheSlime]

1 minute ago, dexxterlab97 said:

No it is not normal. 6600k should not be bottlenecked by a 970

What should i do?

[Katsunaka]

Are you running some extra programs that are causing a background issue.

 

Just looked up the min specs for BF1 and it says that the 6600k in minimum spec? Really? A new i5 is minimum spec for a game?

 

 

The minimum spec:

OS: 64-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

Processor (AMD): AMD FX-6350

Processor (Intel): Core i5 6600K

Memory: 8GB RAM

Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB

Graphics card (Nvidia): Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB

DirectX: 11.0 Compatible video card or equivalent

Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection

Hard-drive space: 50GB

The recommended spec:

OS: 64-bit Windows 10 or later

Processor (AMD): AMD FX 8350 Wraith

Processor (Intel): Intel Core i7 4790 or equivalent

Memory: 16GB RAM

Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB

Graphics card (Nvidia): Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

DirectX: 11.1 Compatible video card or equivalent

Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection

Available Disk Space: 50GB

[ItsTheSlime]

1 minute ago, Katsunaka said:

Are you running some extra programs that are causing a background issue.

 

Just looked up the min specs for BF1 and it says that the 6600k in minimum spec? Really? A new i5 is minimum spec for a game?

 

 

The minimum spec:

OS: 64-bit Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

Processor (AMD): AMD FX-6350

Processor (Intel): Core i5 6600K

Memory: 8GB RAM

Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB

Graphics card (Nvidia): Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB

DirectX: 11.0 Compatible video card or equivalent

Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection

Hard-drive space: 50GB

The recommended spec:

OS: 64-bit Windows 10 or later

Processor (AMD): AMD FX 8350 Wraith

Processor (Intel): Intel Core i7 4790 or equivalent

Memory: 16GB RAM

Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon RX 480 4GB

Graphics card (Nvidia): Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

DirectX: 11.1 Compatible video card or equivalent

Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection

Available Disk Space: 50GB

The only thing else i have running is origin and msi afterburner

[Katsunaka]

What's the rest of your PC look like?

 

Ram, hard drives and such? 

 

Have you tried turning the game down some?

[ItsTheSlime]

Just now, Katsunaka said:

What's the rest of your PC look like?

 

Ram, hard drives and such? 

I have 16 GO ddr4 ram, 1tb HDD, 650 watt psu, and a asrock extreme 3 motherboard. Could it be an outdated cpu or motherboard driver or something?

[Katsunaka]

I don't know, it says the 6600k is min spec, which at first I thought was a typo or mistake, but it's really that.

 

I don't know what to say. I'd say try again tomorrow during the day here in the US(if your not US based) when more people are on. I don't play the game, so I don't know.

 

IS there an option to run the game in DX11 instead of 12?

 

 

[Cereal5]

Turn the settings down and see if the frame rates change. Also, get display driver uninstaller and do a fresh install of your drivers

[ItsTheSlime]

The game is set in dx11 and changing  the settings dosnt do anything. I get same fps at low 25% res scale and at ultra 100 res scale. Anyways ill try to reinstall my drivers tomorrow.

[Katsunaka]

2 minutes ago, ItsTheSlime said:

The game is set in dx11 and changing  the settings dosnt do anything. I get same fps at low 25% res scale and at ultra 100 res scale. Anyways ill try to reinstall my drivers tomorrow.

There's that too, could be the Nvidia, try uninstalling the GeForce Experience. 

[ItsTheSlime]

Just now, Katsunaka said:

There's that too, could be the Nvidia, try uninstalling the GeForce Experience. 

Ok ill try tommorow .  Thanks

[Zyndo]

44 minutes ago, ItsTheSlime said:

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Has anyone bothered to look up performance benchmarks for BF1? a 6600k is only capable of getting around 100-110 avg. fps in that game even with a decent overclock going... Depending on what he has his graphic settings set to, he could VERY easily be bottlenecking a 970. Take a look at this guy with a 4.5GH OC on a 6600k and his performance/usage numbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCaImMHefo0

 

And yes, overclocking would very definitely help with average fps, but also minimum fps. It would also be good to wait for better driver support to come out for this game before you write it off. if you're running 90 fps normally without an OC I would say that is good. I'm not sure why you would experience dips well below that into the 20's though, and would chalk that up to drivers or poor game support or something else on your computer consuming your performance resources. You may also (depending on settings and resolutions) be surpassing your VRAM in some situations, causing temporary fps drops or unusually poor performance. check your VRAM usage and be sure its not above 3.5GB

[Harshil1996]

It is normal you will experience the bottleneck as some games like BF 4 ,the novigrad in the witcher 3,the arma 3 etc favours more threads! I myself swap i5 6600k with i7 6700k because of lots of stuttering in cpu intensive games. You can check youtube i5 vs i7 in novigrad of the witcher 3(i5 would be at 90-100% while i7 would be at 60%). Now the games have started to take advantage of HT.

[Harshil1996]

After upgrading to an i7 now there are no frame drops or stuttering. I had gone through this problem but upgrading to an i7 was the right solution. I know that in gpu intensive games i5 and i7 have same perf. But when you move to cpu intensive games the story changes........

[Pulse485]

You have no need at all to upgrade or overclock your CPU to get playable frames in BF1. Depending on resolution, your GPU is more likely to be the limiting factor

[smokefest]

6600k Shouldn't bottleneck a 970 or a 1070..

I have a 4690K @ 4.5 ghz with a 1070 and Bf1 run smoooth over 120 fps easily... cpu is @ 90% most of the time but the gpu deliver mostly max its performance because when i compare to other rigs online, i have same fps as others, even them with an i7.

So.... no the 6600k shudnt bottleneck at all.

I even ran bf1 with my old 970 during the beta and it was running smooooth as fuck too... always over 60 fps 0 drops, no stuttering..

 

[Harshil1996]

Still just getting an i7 6700k(if anyways u can)at stock speeds rather than oc the 6600k with some very high price cooler  is viable choice if you ask me. Finally its your decision as i myself saw a very large improvement upgrading from 6600k to an 6700k in cpu intensive games and yeah while i5 is at 90% i7 doesnt even cross 50% on all cores! So you also have the the headroom for streaming etc too......I know maybe in battlefied the i5 is okay and maybe some bug issue but what about in other games like the witcher 3? There are a lot of peoples complaining about huge fps dips in novigrad with i3s and i5s! Believe or not soon i7's HT will be worth extra 100$

[Pulse485]

8 hours ago, Harshil1996 said:

Still just getting an i7 6700k(if anyways u can)at stock speeds rather than oc the 6600k with some very high price cooler  is viable choice if you ask me. Finally its your decision as i myself saw a very large improvement upgrading from 6600k to an 6700k in cpu intensive games and yeah while i5 is at 90% i7 doesnt even cross 50% on all cores! So you also have the the headroom for streaming etc too......I know maybe in battlefied the i5 is okay and maybe some bug issue but what about in other games like the witcher 3? There are a lot of peoples complaining about huge fps dips in novigrad with i3s and i5s! Believe or not soon i7's HT will be worth extra 100$

 

Cursory research shows that the i5 is more than enough to smash the 60fps barrier in TW3. The i7 is a better processor, but if you are only gaming you don't need anything over the 6600K.