Anthem on PC using 100% CPU

[Lawdog384]

You absolutely nailed it,

[ElectZZ]

Played well till 22.02. Now constant freezez ingame, nomater what. I left a game till better times.

[deathon2wheelz]

Found the last night, worked for me, typed from memory as i cannot find it again.

Delete your anthem settings in documents folder.

Uninstall nvidia drivers using DDU

Install latest drivers 419.xx (perform a clean installation)

Open anthem

Set to borderless and enable vsync

Exit anthem normally

Go to nvidia control panel and adjust image settings (Top option) to performance

Open anthem and wait a couple of minutes for it to click in.  If it doesn't, restart your pc, open again and wait.

This will or should remove the 100% CPU issue.

Ultimately though the game is horribly optimized for PC, i have a 1080 ti and i only get 75-85 fps out in the world at 1440p medium!  Admitedly i have an i3 8350k overclocked to 4.8ghz (pc was not build to have a 1080ti, so upgrading to and i5 8600k next week), but that should still draw more FPS than this, i even get more in GR:Wildlands!

[buttercupb11ch]

Same here CPU sitting at 100% the entire time from loading screen. I think its whats leading my PC to restart its when im playing.

[michaelrock78]

Same here. But why haven't we had a mod comment on this post? ive been following this post for a couple days now and haven't seen one mod say anything to us.

[ColossalKyojin]

i5 4670k

1060 6GB

16 ram

100% CPU usage even with low settings. Can play the game smooth on Ultra but CPU usage is the same. Only my load times increase.

Doesn't happen everytime I play. Just noticed it today when it was taking me a long time to load into freeplay/missions.

This does not occur on any other games I play.

I use a Noctua nh-d15 after market cooler. So temperatures are still fine though higher than any other of the 100+ plus games I've owned and played.

Vsync on or off

borderless/window/full screen

None of this makes a difference

I won't play the game this way. Shut it down once I realised what was happening.

[Fiuchino007]

Control you ram timing.... 

and your overclock. 

I think much people have to resolve the instability of they BIOS

I solve all  my problem with they.... 

Sometimes if you set some timing isn t really stable the system... 

I try all week in my bios setting..... And sonetines with some setting the game use 100% cpu. ... 

When i set ram with wrong timing i have this problem.... 

1600 mhz 9-9-9  24   33

When i  set 11  13   13   35  40 with docp  

The game is perfect!   50-60-70% usage cpu

framerate out 45-60

Framerate inside 60-90

Since

1080p

8350 4,4 ghz  

Ram 1600 mhz    

rx 590

Control you ram setting  because suse if the ram work bad you can have 100%cpu load

[smoking_simon]

Won't work for me.

I oced my cpu/ram 2 years ago to 4,6ghz and adjusted  ram, cpu, voltages for days.

I ran cpu load, ram tests, rendering and different games for days and never had a problem.

But anthem crashes after 30-35 minutes because of overheating I think.

If I'm at 100% cpu my in-game overlay shows 1.4v core voltage.

At bios I set it to max. 1.2675.

I tried battlefield 5, heavy load and some benchmarks and they just show 1.2675v. 

Anthem 1.4v.

Maybe anthem somehow overrides bios voltage settings? 

I habe custom water cooling so I never had any problems with heat. 

If I reset cpu bios core and cache clock to default it runs silent and cold like a dead cat. 

[shadowmask72]

I get a massive CPU Spike at the start of the game for a few minutes. Very worrying as it takes the CPU temps close to the max for me. Then it manages to settle down. Not good at all. I will try deleting the profile and trying again. I also notice my display always resets to 1280x720 even though visually it doesn't look like that at all.

RTX 2080 Ti FE, i9 9900K 16GB RAM WIN 10 64bit etc...

[zzBaBzz]

Before day 1 patch: cpu at 50% maximum, laptop warm-ish.

After patch and up till right now: cpu at 98-100%, 81-85 degreees CPU. As in, the keyboard is hot.