System uses 30 % cpu when playing games

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When this started to happen?
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nothing to fix, its working as intended.

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When this started to happen?
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Is this happening only with this game or if you try a different game something similar happens?
And, what did you tried so far to fix this
In that way I can advise you different things or how to proceed

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70% of GPU use = 55 FPS

100% of GPU use = 55 : 70 x 100 = approximatively 79 FPS.

70% of GPU doesn't mean the game isn't using your hardware to the fullest.

The CPU doesn't just compute the game logic and AI, it also draws the scene, it sends the drawn frames to the GPU to render the graphics. If you're aiming for 60fps, but your CPU isn't good enough, your graphics card will not render all of those frames. It doesn't matter how powerful your GPU is.

One classic example of a bottleneck occurs when an outdated processor is combined with a more advanced graphics card in a demanding CPU-intensive game. In this situation, the CPU struggles to process the game, resulting in only 30 frames being drawn, and consequently, the GPU only renders those 30 frames. If you were to observe this scenario using a benchmarking tool, you would typically see the CPU utilization at 100% while the GPU operates at 30% (or something similar). This is a classic illustration of a CPU bottleneck.

Likewise, when modern CPU's are benchmarked for performance, a game will generally be locked at 1080P. Then, to test the graphics card performance, the resolution and or other graphics settings are increased.

Hi,

You experience this slower performance when playing a game or just having the Xbox app running?

Note that when playing games, Higher CPU utilisation is normal. The CPU doesn't just handle the game logic, it also draws the scene and sends the created frames to the GPU to be rendered. The CPU is used just as much in games as the GPU.