Game stutter G3250

0HaywirE0

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Hello everyone

I've got a bit of a problem with my first pc build.
I have following specs:

MSI H81M-P33 Intel H81 So.1150 Dual Channel DDR3 mATX Retail
Intel Pentium G3250 2x 3.20GHz So.1150 BOX
240GB Silicon Power Slim S55 2.5" (6.4cm) SATA 6Gb/s (SP240GBSS3S55S25)
2GB Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 Ti Windforce 2X OC Aktiv PCIe 3.0 x16 2xDVI / 2xHDMI (Retail)
8GB fury RAM

Everything works fine, but I'm getting very high CPU usage when I play Assassin's Creed Unity.
100% actually and the game starts to stutter. Could it be that the CPU is not up to the challenge?
I've tried "unparting"? the CPU and through redegit or something (found this in a vid on youtube http://)
this helped a bit, but the game still stutters.

Do I need a new CPU, if so which one?

Please guide me, I'm but a young padawan.


 
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The minimum system requirements call for an i5-2500K and a GTX 680. Your PC is below that, so expect poor performance. It also doesn't help that AC: Unity is a terribly optimised game.

Short story short, your CPU and GPU are below-par, so you need to upgrade or lower the graphical settings.
Unparking your cores on a dual core processor wont make any differecne since those 2 core are always being used. How many frames per second are you getting on Assassins creed Unity? Are the frame rates constantly bouncing high and low? Is V-Sync on or Off?
 
Assassin's Creed Unity is quite CPU heavy and really needs a quad core CPU or at the very least a dual core with hyperthreading to run well, same with a lot of modern titles. The Pentiums really aren't adequate for high end gaming anymore, with the Core i3s being the new minimum for anything more demanding than MOBAs or CS:GO.
 
Something else to check, try using msi afterburner while gaming and look at cpu and gpu usage. Try lowering quality settings and see if fps improve, if so it may also be the gpu. It's possible things have changed with updates however it seems the game is also pretty gpu heavy. Dsogaming's review found it hard to get to 40fps with a gtx 680 which is stronger than a 750ti. The min requirements for the game call for a quad core though an i3 would likely do in a pinch since it can run 4 threads with the hyper threading. If the game is heavy on the gpu though a cpu upgrade alone may not cut it.

http://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/assassins-creed-unity-pc-performance-analysis/

With an i5 3570k oc'd to 4.4ghz, the 750ti was only averaging 39fps with drops down to 5-23fps at times on medium settings.

http://www.gamersnexus.net/game-bench/1692-assassins-creed-unity-gpu-benchmark

An i3 or i5 may improve performance some but if sticking with a 750ti there still may be stuttering. The article at gamersnexus also mentioned the game using a lot of vram and the 750ti only has 2gb. That could be part of the stuttering issue as well.
 

0HaywirE0

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Dec 3, 2016
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I've noticed that even with only firefox running, the CPU is already at 50%. could it be that I installed something the wrong way?

Vsync was turned on but turning it off didn't really do anything.
I'm getting between 25 and 30 FPS according to FRAPS

I don't really mind the quality being less. I just want to play without the game stuttering...
 
The minimum system requirements call for an i5-2500K and a GTX 680. Your PC is below that, so expect poor performance. It also doesn't help that AC: Unity is a terribly optimised game.

Short story short, your CPU and GPU are below-par, so you need to upgrade or lower the graphical settings.
 
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