High CPU usage in game, up to 100%

Red_Feather · August 2022

KilianDermoth wrote: »

Zastrix wrote: »

My roommate upgraded to a ryzen 3600 which is basically under all specs worse than my CPU, except for the more count of virtual cores but he only has ~20% CPU usage while running ESO while I have 80%+ on all cores. This is a hill I'm willing to die on.

I legit have 30 fps in Vivec city with an i7 9700k and an rtx 2070, how is that acceptable?!

I guess your roommate has deactivated multi threaded rendering.

To your performance issue: do you run the game in 4k? If so the RTX 2000 wasnt made to run games on such high settings / details in such resolutions with high FPS. No matter how it was advertised by NVidia.

Do you use indirect lighting? Again the RTX 2000 series has to less performance to do this on high resolutions with high FPS. Also no matter how it was advertised by NVidia.

Or are you even doing both? Indirect Lighting and 4k? This would be even tough for the RTX 3000 series, but the bigger models at least should be able to handle it with ok FPS. The RTX 2000 series is one of the first gpu series that can do both but lacks the power to do both with good FPS.

Also those very new features got added recently.

On top of that you are probably running several addons which might cause a big performance hit (especially some minimaps do this). Just try to deactivate all addons and see how the performance increases and the CPU usage maybe even decreases (or not, because of the following).

In general for everyone who complaints about high CPU usage: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7449565/#Comment_7449565

It is the march update. I don't know why some people come in thinking they can troubleshoot. A ton of us have known for 5 months that update 33 in march did something messed up. So we've uninstalled and left over the months. Even ESO streamers. https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/7696215/#Comment_7696215

ZOS_Bill · August 2022

@Zastrix

We have sent you a forum PM with an update on your current ticket.

Zastrix · October 2022

As the ticket got closed because I didn't manage to respond within a few days I don't think this will ever be resolved as it's not a user-side issue, the code is just bonkers for this specific line of CPU and no amount of user editing will fix this. I've lost any faith for an update fixing this so the thread can be closed.

N3CR01 · October 2022

Gargath wrote: »

On my recently bought PC - ASUS PRIME Z690-P D4, i5-12600K 3.69 GHz, Corsair 32GB 3600MHz Vengeance PRO, ASUS RTX 3060 Ti STRIX Gaming 8GB OC V2, SSD Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1000GB M.2, Windows 10 Home, Optical Fiber Internet 600 Mbit, I have a stable 100 FPS and latency ~50 without any slow downs on ultra settings. Runs quietly, the fans push out a cold air, so I never had any reason to check task manager. Also on this SSD game is loading and closing extremely fast, there's no time to read the text on screens before entering delves and dungeons because loading lasts ca 3-5 seconds .

Same spec as my 7 week old rig accept I have a MSi B660m and 6700xt GPU and have my 3600 RAM OC'd to 4000.
No problems at all, low CPU usage no matter where I am and what I'm doing.

Running in 1440p and getting 120 - 200fps average, depending on what I'm doing.

Same on my 2 year old laptop, CPU usage never seems to be very high.

ZOS_Bill · October 2022

We are now closing this discussion at the request of the OP.