Is the stuttering and FPS lag I experience in Battlefield 1 cause by a CPU bottleneck?

Dirty_Sprite

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Monitor: 1920x1080 144Hz
CPU: i5 4690K @ 3.5GHz (turned down from 4.0GHz because the pump was making weird rattling noises, but all is good now at 3.5GHz, temps and all)
GPU: GTX 1070 8GB
RAM: 16GB DDR3 @ 2000MHz
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit

I experience pretty bad stuttering and FPS lag when in an intense situation with the above hardware. No difference when I change to 60Hz, but when I put the settings from ultra (what I normally use) to very low, the stuttering and lag somewhat stops.

I should be able to run it fine with my hardware. Is the fact that I have a 144Hz monitor at 1080p with the hardware I have causing a bottleneck? How do I fix it?

It happens 10x worse with Dx12 on.
 

waaedalqraan

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this happened a lot with a lot of people with the same cpu but on high end gpus like your one use msi after burner to know gpu usage if it not 99% then you have a bottleneck and the monitor has nothing to do with your performance i recommend you to overclock your cpu to get most performance from the it and i assume you are using a liquid cooler cuz you mentioned a pump if so i dont know why you cant overclock a used that cpu for 3 years on 4.1 and nothing to report
 

Phaaze88

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BF1 is one of those games that benefit from more cores and threads. Your I5's 4c/4t is in the minimum range to run that particular game - the stuttering/lag you're experiencing in high load areas at ultra settings is normal... and it sounds like your pump is not properly seated, so reapply paste and make sure it is.
 

Dirty_Sprite

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The pump is properly seated. I have reseated it and re-applied thermal paste like 3 times.