99% CPU usage when playing games, High FPS low Ping.

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Hi so my computer is
Intel Core i5 4690K @ 3.50GHz
24.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz
Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z97-HD3
4096MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 200 Series
117GB SanDisk SDSSDP128G (SSD)
931GB Hitachi HUA721010KLA330 (SATA)

My problem is stuttering in the games i play, Counter Strike and Overwatch. My FPS hasn't changed and is consistently high, my ping is low but my CPU usage is 99% while I'm playing. Speccy says it isn't overheating and is running at 36 C. I just did a "reset this pc" option, reinstalling windows, that didn't work. I did a memtest and it says there are no problems. I re-seated my GPU. I've made sure xbox game capture is off and have tried most the the google responses people have offered when I google "cs go stuttering." I pinged for packet loss and it showed I had no packet loss when pinging my IP and google's IP. A Malwarebytes scan showed nothing. I updated my bios also.

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Not sure where to go from here?
 
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usually if a display driver is wrongly installed. or the version itself has bugs. it could be the cause of your stutters. you can try using DDU in safemode to clean it. and use a older version of the driver instead. or let microsoft install it for you. you will have to run DDU again to just re^enable windows driver updates. they have the "default stable" version that will surely work with their OS. so from there you can check which version works for you in your system.

oh sorry just realized youre using AMD. you can check here.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-200-Series-Drivers.aspx
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your RAM spec isnt right. im guessing you have 3 different type of rams mixing together. and dual channel numbers are only 8,16 or 32 with 2 sticks. please state each individual ram you have. better replace them with a 2x8GB 2666Mhz at least (with XMP enabled in BIOS).

download CPUZ and go to memory tab. look at DRAM freq.

 
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Try the following ONE AT A TIME, test after each change


Uninstall the GPU drivers with DDU and reinstall fresh down from the AMD website. NOTE that some 290 series cards are struggling with a driver bug that locks the GPu and memory at 150/300Mhz ... check with CPUz while gaming and see if you are affected.

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Disable Fast boot

Type Control Panel in the search box.
Click Control Panel.
Click Power Options.
Click Choose what the power buttons do.
Click Change settings that are currently unavailable.
Scroll down to Shutdown settings and uncheck Turn on fast startup.
Click Save changes.

disable superfetch

Hold the Windows Key, while pressing “R” to bring up the Run dialog box.
Type “services.msc“, then press “Enter“.
The Services window displays. Find “Superfetch” in the list.
Right-click “Superfetch“, then select “Properties“.
Select the “Stop” button if you wish to stop the service. In the “Startup type” dropdown menu, choose “Disabled“.

clear the paging file at shutdown (below)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/314834/how-to-clear-the-windows-paging-file-at-shutdown
 
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Question from reubenhighland : "High FPS Low Ping 99% CPU usage in games"



 
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Hi, I did all this, and it still stutters.
 
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I was using 3 types of ram. I have Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3 CL10 DIMM - Black (HX316C10FBK2/16). I took the odd one out and have two of those in. DRAM freq is 799.9MHz
 
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reubenhighland

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Yes, I'm using windows 10. Not sure if this extra info helps, but even when I run malwarebytes, my CPU usage will spike to 100.

 
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sounds like it could be your harddisk. game caused by bottlenecks on your hdds read/write performance. if it doesnt have good enouch caching mechanism to keep up then you see the stutter. also abnormally high usage on CPU could also mean a HDD bottleneck. your drive might be failing. i suggest you try to do a defrag first on your drive. and then do a "check disk" as well. if after these fixes, stuttering still happens. maybe its in your games graphics settings. try lowering your antialias first and see how it goes. but if its the same with all your heavy games. theres a high possibility its your HDD. you can try buying a better HD like Seagate barracuda/western digital blue. you can also try downloading "RAM caching" software which helps you store some data in your RAM to make i/o access faster on your HD.


 
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I defragged my drives earlier today and it didn't fix it. When I did a disk check on my secondary HDD it did find something wrong and it repaired it. It didn't fix the stuttering though. One thing I did earlier was change a game from my secondary drive to my SSD. It didn't fix the stuttering. Wouldn't that indicate that the problem is not with my drives?
 
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reubenhighland

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I already play at the lowest settings. This whole thing started maybe two weeks ago, not sure what happened then. Do you think its a windows update issue and if so, I'll just have to wait for them to fix it?
 
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usually if a display driver is wrongly installed. or the version itself has bugs. it could be the cause of your stutters. you can try using DDU in safemode to clean it. and use a older version of the driver instead. or let microsoft install it for you. you will have to run DDU again to just re^enable windows driver updates. they have the "default stable" version that will surely work with their OS. so from there you can check which version works for you in your system.

oh sorry just realized youre using AMD. you can check here.
http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMD-Radeon-200-Series-Drivers.aspx
 
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