How on earth is it possible !?!
My CPU is running at 90%-100% during games causing me micro freezes. It’s so frustrating !
Meanwhile my GPU is hardly reaching 25%. Wtf !!
My setup isn’t so bad so I can play easily every games without any problem at 144hz 1080p but of course Halo Infinite HAS to be the exception.
Why this game is requesting CPU so bad everytime ?
What CPU and GPU are you using? What are the rest of your system specs?
CPU: intel i5 8600K 3,6ghz
MSI Z370
16go RAM ddr4
GPU: GeForce GTX 1080
I think your CPU may be the bottleneck here
Curious. It wasn’t a problem when I was playing the new MW2. But I guess it’s time to think about it.
During all “games” or just Halo?
Sounds like you have something else going on. You should never see 100% CPU usage while gaming, unless you’re playing Cinebench, that uses all cores and threads unlike a game does.
If you’re being serious, and not being dramatic then you have other things running in the background bounding your CPU.
Also, since you have an 8th gen intel and 10 series, I’m assuming this PC is pretty old, right? It’ll be worth it to do a clean install of Windows.
Yes. I mean like 1s max to 87% but otherwise between 90%-100%.
It doesn’t surprise me a lot because staying in the menus of the game cost me 78% constant use.
I don’t know the % in other games because I wasn’t curious at all when everything was fine. But since it causes me micro freezes I looked after it.
I never had this problem except Halo infinite.
And I always shut down everything I can to avoid multitask.
I made this setup in the end of 2018 for the record. I know it’s kind of old for gamers but hey, it’s expensive 
Today I OCed my pc and until now (2 or 3 games) I don’t suffer micro freezes anymore.
Ok thanks for the advice.
I don’t really speak English so I would like to be sure what you mean by « clean install ». Do you mean to format windows?
I have an even older system:
The CPU is the biggest issue with the game. Playing Campaign, I can actually play at Medium settings at 60 FPS with drops here and there to about the mid-50’s, but it’s completely playable and enjoyable.
I also clean install Windows 10 and format my system fully twice a year, and absolutely performance in not just games, but the overall system, improves each time.
Having said that, it looks and plays better on my Xbox Series X, so that’s my preferred platform for the game.
My father has a much better CPU, but only 8 GB of Ram and a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, and he’s able to play the Campaign in similar fashion but at Low Settings.
Some people panic when they reinstall Windows, a prompt will pop asking if you want to keep files and settings and they usually click on that. I can’t remember what the prompts say exactly, but pick the one that completely deletes everything and does a clean install.
This may help…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4gqXpdpc5o
idk man i’m running a i7-3770k (4.3ghz oc) tied to a z77 w 2400xmp ram paired to a 3060ti (i know i’m being bottlenecked by pcie3, it’s fine til i get my 13700k when taxes hit) and the game runs flawless 1080p max. CPU utilization never crosses 35.
edit:
i’ve been saying it since the beginning and more and more people are making me think it’s true. The game runs like crap on newer hardware and loves older hardware for some odd reason.
In a couple weeks, Ryzen 7000 X3D CPU’s will be releasing, I can’t wait to see how they perform.
I don’t know about that. It runs a lot better on my 4080 than it ran on my 3080.
I’ve got a 4080 FE and an i5 12600k. Crushes this game and I have no issues.
I dunno, I went from a Radeon 6800XT to a 7900XTX and the performance is definitely better (it was already good but still). Still have the Ryzen 5800X that I had paired with the 6800XT.
From Best Buy or from Nvidia? Best Buy sold out of the Fe as soon as they released them online, I was mad. Then they never released the Strix 4080, kept saying coming soon. Called my Micro Center and they said they were still waiting on the Strix and TUF cards. They got them in the next day so I went and got the Strix.
Recently Best Buy has been showing the 4080 Fe in stock, still no 4090’s.
That’s what I’m currently using. I’m looking forward to seeing how the 7900X3D performs. Then I’ll make the switch…
-Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Hero
-VENGEANCE RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 DRAM 6000MT/s C30 AMD EXPO Memory
That’s very weird. Looks like you have ennemies stalking you.
Is there a true difference using one manufacturer instead of another ? ( I mean for Halo of course )
I heard that they were struggling with Nvidia but idk if it’s real and is it also real with CPU manufacturers ?
Yes and no. Asus uses really well made PCB’s and components. They also hand pick/bin their GPU’s (this is why they have Strix and TUF OC and non OC cards as well as other partners) and are usually some of the best out of box OC cards. EVGA was also known for this, RIP. It does seem a little different with the 40 series. It seems like Nvidia themselves are getting better memory than their partners and also binning their GPU’s and their partners are left with the rest. One of the reasons why EVGA isn’t making cards anymore.
Here’s an example…
The 4080’s base clock is 2205 MHz
The 4080 Fe’s boost clock is 2505 MHz
The Strix 4080 boost clock is 2625 MHz
The Strix will boost 8 more bins than the Fe card, each boost bin is 15 MHz.
Colorful, Gainward and Palit cards have a boost clock of 2640 HMz, an extra boost bin over the Strix.
You also have cooler designs, where most of the money is put towards and I believe (I don’t know for sure) that the Strix 4080 is the only 4080 that uses the same vapor chamber as the Strix 4090.
Then you have cards like MSI, Zotac, Gigabyte that will boost (2520 MHZ) out of box one bin higher than the Fe and slap “overclocked” on the box.
For reference, my Strix 4080 will hit 2985-3000 MHz while gaming. In benchmarks, like 3DMark, it can see as high as 3045 MHz…
https://www.3dmark.com/spy/32674290
https://www.3dmark.com/search#advanced?test=spy%20X&cpuId=2759&gpuId=1520&gpuCount=0&gpuType=ALL&deviceType=ALL&storageModel=ALL&memoryChannels=0&country=&scoreType=overallScore&hofMode=false&showInvalidResults=false&freeParams=&minGpuCoreClock=&maxGpuCoreClock=&minGpuMemClock=&maxGpuMemClock=&minCpuClock=&maxCpuClock=
I finally made a clean install of windows last night and guess what ?
It solved a ticket that I had to send at the beginning of the game. For over one year I had to set every gfx/audio/gameplay setting of the game EVERY TIME I launched the game. I uninstalled this game over 5 times (steam and Microsoft store) to try to solve the problem. Looks like windows was the problem all this time.
I hope that my CPU will perform a little bit better now with halo. It looks better. Wait and see.
Is everything optimized? drivers updated and such
Yes, the game doesn’t stress the CPU as much as it was. But it is still not demanding a lot of resources to the GPU.
The most important is that I’ve no freezes anymore.