Stuttering and FPS drops and inconsistent GPU usage

[Canne]

Hey Guys,
 

I have a computer which is almost 3 years old with the following specs:

 

- Antec HCG-620 Powersupply

- Samsung SSD 750 EVO

- GIGABYTE B85M-DS3H-A Ultra Durable

- Intel i5-4590 Processor

- 8GB DDR3 Ballistix PC3 - 12800 CL9

- AMD Radeon R9 380

 

For a week or so now I am getting huge FPS drops while playing for example Fortnite. The game stutters regularly.. 

I ran Afterburner while playing Fortnite to see what my components are doing while playing and i noticed that my GPU usage also drops a lot from 100% to sometimes even 0%. At the same time my cpu usage is very high. So my question is if this could be the result of a cpu bottleneck. But then again I haven't had this problem 2 weeks ago.. 

 

I also ran the Time Spy Benchmark with 3dMark and my Gpu usage was constantly at 100% so it seems to be a Fortnite problem. So maybe they changed the game in terms of cpu usage in the last two weeks?

 

Thanks for the help in advance!

Jonas

 

 

[Cereal5]

Do you have any other games to test it on? CPU usage over 80% usually means a CPU bottleneck. Hitting 100% DEFINITELY means a CPU bottle neck. If you have a 4790K lying around somewhere to drop in, you could test it with that. But try running some other games and watch your usage. If you see a similar trend, then the above is true

[HyperMoonz]

On 10/18/2018 at 4:33 AM, Cereal5 said:

Do you have any other games to test it on? CPU usage over 80% usually means a CPU bottleneck. Hitting 100% DEFINITELY means a CPU bottle neck. If you have a 4790K lying around somewhere to drop in, you could test it with that. But try running some other games and watch your usage. If you see a similar trend, then the above is true

Hey I'm having the same problem as the original poster. I too have 100% GPU usage and ~50% CPU usage

GPU temps always under 60 C underload

i7-4790k & gtx 960

How can I fix a bottleneck without buying a GPU?

Trying to play Monster hunter world at medium 60fps without GPU usage drops/stuttering

Help would greatly be appreciated : )