CPU usage shoots up 100% and GPU usage comes down.

arnaslt1

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Hi, I need your help people.
I have this problem where I would be playing BF4 and after 5min of playing the CPU usage would go from 40-50% to 100% and stay there, when this happens the GPU would go from 80-100% to 10%. This causes my game to lag and it becomes unplayable, this also happens with insurgency.

I keep my BF4 settings on High and low same with Insurgency, I also play Euro Truck Simulator on high settings and that runs smoothly but If I play BF4 and Insurgency the PC lags. I have been playing with this set up for ages and never had issue like this.

PC Specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit (6.1 build)
Mother board GA-970A-DS3, BIOS V6.00
AMD FX-8150 Eight Core
RAM 16gb
GeForce GTX670 2GB Palit
DirectX11

Cooling:
H80i
4 Fans
 

arnaslt1

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But I have been playing BF4 for 2 years on this system and everything was fine, this all happened after I reinstalled Win7. Could it be my GPU getting to hot????
 

davidarad02

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when reinstalling windows, did you download the drivers for the GPU again?
in any case, you should do that.
 

neieus

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It could be a number of things do instead of blindly pointng fingers at the problem let's do so real troubleshooting. First you'll need to track your system usage with task manager. Monitor your CPU usage and confirm what's eating your CPU. Next use amd overdrive or something similar to monitor CPU temps and you'll want to do the same for the GPU.
 

arnaslt1

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http://i.imgur.com/gyi216i.jpg, So today I played battlefield and It was all good the problem dint occur but after playing 3 games it happened again.

CPU temps never went over 60, Usage 40-50% (before the spike)
GPU temps where at 84, Usage 80-100% (before the spike)