i5-6600K always on 100% usage playing certain games

[PeterSa]

Greetings,

 

• Intel Core i5-6600K (OC'd to 4.2GHz)
• GTX 1070 G1
• 16GB RAM
• 500W PSU

 

Okay let me jump right in.

When I play Battlefield 1, my CPU usage goes up to 100% all the time leaving me with lots of stutters and FPS drops (playing on 1080p) medium-high settings.

People have told me to just get an i7-7700K and my issue will be fixed. Just wondering what are your thoughts about it?

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Thank you ^^

 

[Princess Luna]

This is perfectly normal, the i5 6600k only has 4 threads which limits its capacity of how much to process at once, games like BF1 uses more than 4 threads alone and you still have to maintain the OS and other background processes.

[TheRandomness]

What's the GPU usage when playing said games? It just looks like a CPU bottleneck. 

[The Sloth]

2 minutes ago, PeterSa said:

People have told me to just get an i7-7700K and my issue will be fixed. Just wondering what are your thoughts about it?

 

yes, 6600k will bottleneck a gtx 1070

[ImNotThere]

perhaps, i may be crazy here, feel free to call me it, but 4 core 4 threads arent enough? thatll be why people suggest the 7700k

[JJVGaming]

thats normal, games are beginning to use more cores and threads and i5s dont really have much to offer (4cores/threads(. I have an i5 too and most of the newer cpu intensive games are reaching 100% too with stuttering

[Damascus]

Bf1 uses 6 cores

[TheLaserCucumber]

24 minutes ago, Damascus said:

Bf1 uses 6 cores

I have made the experience that Bf1 uses all of the 8 Threads of my i7.

 

To OP:

Even with my i7 6700K I saw 100% in Bf1 Multiplayer...

[Damascus]

1 minute ago, TheLaserCucumber said:

I have made the experience that Bf1 uses all of the 8 Threads of my i7.

 

To OP:

Even with my i7 6700K I saw 100% in Bf1 Multiplayer...

Maybe background tasks as well?

[TheLaserCucumber]

14 hours ago, Damascus said:

Maybe background tasks as well?

I don't really have background tasks except for Steam or Teamspeak.

[Damascus]

4 hours ago, TheLaserCucumber said:

I don't really have background tasks except for Steam or Teamspeak.

there you go! Also, you'd be running the OS, screen controllers and a slew of other stuff in the background you don't need to activate but are always there.

[TheLaserCucumber]

4 hours ago, Damascus said:

there you go! Also, you'd be running the OS, screen controllers and a slew of other stuff in the background you don't need to activate but are always there.

Ya I know. But steam and TS don't really need power. 

"Idle" usage with steam and teamspeak running is 1 to maybe 2%. Nothing drastical.

[PeterSa]

Thanks for the replies.
my CPU is overclocked my CPU to 4.2GHz..

Do I push the CPU to 4.4GHz or do I put it back to it's factory clock speeds?

 

Also some people I know who have older CPUs, BF1 runs like a charm on their PC with up to 50% usage at max..

 

The game runs like a nightmare on my PC. With drops down to 20FPS..

 

[asand1]

5 hours ago, PeterSa said:

Thanks for the replies.
my CPU is overclocked my CPU to 4.2GHz..

Do I push the CPU to 4.4GHz or do I put it back to it's factory clock speeds?

 

Also some people I know who have older CPUs, BF1 runs like a charm on their PC with up to 50% usage at max..

 

The game runs like a nightmare on my PC. With drops down to 20FPS..

 

Those people would have potato GPUs or not enough RAM to max out the CPU.

[SkilledRebuilds]

5 hours ago, PeterSa said:

Thanks for the replies.
my CPU is overclocked my CPU to 4.2GHz..

Do I push the CPU to 4.4GHz or do I put it back to it's factory clock speeds?

 

Also some people I know who have older CPUs, BF1 runs like a charm on their PC with up to 50% usage at max..

 

The game runs like a nightmare on my PC. With drops down to 20FPS..

 

This happened to me, and my i5 4690.

Play around with Nvidia's control panel option "Pre-rendered frames"
*Note - do not set globally, but on a per game basis.

Google/Youtube how to (tweak games nvidia control panel)

 

I learn a LOT from Reddit's threads.

BF1 WILL absolutely destroy a quadcore without HT. 90-100% usage VS 50-80% usages with my i7.

 

Prerendered frames, helped my GPU usage (a LOT) to stay high at 90-100% while my CPU was 100%'ing.

Maps play a role, some more than others have bigger drops, but PRF tweaking fixed a lot of that too.

 

Suggest googling the known tweaks and fix's and apply them to your situation.

Overclocking may help GPU usages, but your CPU will still spike/stay close to 100% cos BF1 wants as much CPU power as it can muster from the i5's.

 

 

/What other games does this happen too (Your title?)