G3258 Anniv. Chip, 100% CPU and poor performance

gradyhawks · 3 Jun 2015 at 14:40

Hi,

Posting this question for a friend but I have been so far unable to help.. so this is where you lot come in.

My mate as a new build that has the following:

Z97 Asus AR Motherboard
G3258 anniv. Intel GPU
Sapphire 280x
Noctua CPU cooler

Now, he has had a lot of trouble with battlefield 4, it crashes when he gets into a game and down right refuses to let him join any 64 player games. Task manager shows 100% CPU usage and battlefield goes white screen, doesn't get into games. He managed to get into game a few times, but it crashes soon after.

We've tried reinstalling windows, battlefield, checking all drivers, reinstalling drivers etc. We thought it could be the low pre-overclock speed of the G3258, so he used ASUS overclocking software and got it to 4.4ghz, still no help. We then tried a manual overclock but could still only manage 4.4ghz which didn't make any difference.

Ive seen videos of BF4 and a G3258 getting 60+ FPS, but my friend cant even get in ...

Is this anything hardware related at all? Or should battlefield 4 be working?

Thanks for any help,

Grady

Marine-RX179 · 3 Jun 2015 at 14:55

BF4 single player campaign fighting a few enemies at a time and BF4 online multiplayer with 64 players trying to kill each other on the server are two completely different animals when it comes to the stress/load being placed on the CPU.

See if you friend can managed to use Mantle instead of dx11 on BF4, and it should helps hugely on reducing the CPU bottleneck.

deano-5 · 3 Jun 2015 at 18:44

What resolution are you playing at?
How much RAM do you have?

bobbarley · 3 Jun 2015 at 18:50

I have the system in the sig below and can play BF4 online at 60fps easily. Weird.

Lumeycom · 3 Jun 2015 at 21:34

May sound odd but check he doesn't have teamviewer running... I had a similar experience and stopping g teamviewer fixed it

gradyhawks · 3 Jun 2015 at 21:36

deano-5 said:
What resolution are you playing at?
How much RAM do you have?

He has tried it at 1920 and at 800x600. Same story.

8GB of ram, that black team extreme stuff along with a samsung 850 Evo.

Marine-RX179 said:
BF4 single player campaign fighting a few enemies at a time and BF4 online multiplayer with 64 players trying to kill each other on the server are two completely different animals when it comes to the stress/load being placed on the CPU.

See if you friend can managed to use Mantle instead of dx11 on BF4, and it should helps hugely on reducing the CPU bottleneck.

Seems to be the same story for multiplayer and single player. He has mantle on and that didn't seem to help.

wazza300 · 3 Jun 2015 at 21:39

does it play other games fine? try re installing bf4 and or amd drivers

gradyhawks · 3 Jun 2015 at 22:18

It runs Planetside 2 okay, but doesn't run Battlefield Hardline.

have reinstalled windows along with the other two things.

Puppetmaster · 3 Jun 2015 at 22:31

I assume its battlefield, but what processes are using a significant % of the CPU?

PooKer · 4 Jun 2015 at 09:52

Have you got the latest BIOS? It's a long shot though.

gradyhawks · 4 Jun 2015 at 12:33

Puppetmaster said:
I assume its battlefield, but what processes are using a significant % of the CPU?

I think, Origin was using maybe 20% alone, then Battle log another chunk with Battlefield having the rest.

@PooKer - Yeah, latest bios, was the first thing I told him to do thinking it was that.

gradyhawks · 4 Jun 2015 at 12:34

I've got him coming to my place in a few weeks and I will try his G3258 in my PC to try and just rule out that his Motherboard might be damaged or something.

Totally unrelated I am sure, but he was unable to install windows until he removed his Network PCI card (blue screens, freezes etc).

Mrjobby · 4 Jun 2015 at 15:04

BF4 and BF3 will rinse a G3258, been there tried that!

However it should not stop you from gaming full stop, there is a software issue somewhere.

bobbarley · 4 Jun 2015 at 17:43

Not true. I can play BF3 and 4 on that CPU at full HD res at 60fps.

gradyhawks · 5 Jun 2015 at 09:51

I've also personally had a G3258, agreed I got it to 4.7 Ghz, but that monster'd through BF4.

Is this more than likely software related do we think? No chance that something in his Pc is damaged that is causing this? Is it worth trying another Frostbite 3 engined game?