[2021] CPU Usage 100%

It wouldn’t be an issue if your 100% of your CPU was being utilised if your performance was stable, which I understand it is not!

I recall a while back, somebody noticed Windows Defender was interfering with Easy Anti-Cheat and somehow causing the CPU to spike.

I’m not sure if that would explain your issue here, but perhaps worth considering, along with any other Anti-Virus you’re using.

Also, perhaps you have something installed on both PCs that could be interfering with your CPU usage? In which case, I love a ‘Selective Startup’:

1. Press the Windows key
2. Type ‘msconfig’ and select ‘System Configuration’
3. On the ‘General’ tab, select ‘Selective Startup’
4. Deselect ‘Load startup Items’
5. Reboot your PC
6. Launch Vermintide 2 as normal, and see if the issue persists

Failing that, I can see if anybody from Engine is available tomorrow to chat about this with, but with the Swedes celebrating Christmas on the 24th, I may be out of luck!

Thank you for your detailed post. I’ll chat with our Engine Developer about this when he’s back in the New Year!

I might not followed this completly.

Is the issue that the CPU is using 100% or that the FPS is low. Regarding why performance has decreased I can’t answer that at all but I might explain why 100% might be reasonable for one core.

But regarding 100% uthilization I would assume this is expected when you are CPU bottlenecked. Which VT2 oftens is due to heavy CPU usage.

The model is that we have 2 main threads, game and render thread that are the heavy lifters. We then have worker threads. If one of the main threads is the bottlneck it will likely be working ~100% of the time unless you cap the frame rate. if you would be GPU bottlenecked, these 2 threads would be idle in the end of a frame and thus not be working 100% of the time.