{"id":46297,"date":"2018-10-15T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T10:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/?p=46297"},"modified":"2018-10-19T15:43:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T10:43:46","slug":"how-to-fix-black-ops-4-high-cpu-usage-and-low-performance-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/how-to-fix-black-ops-4-high-cpu-usage-and-low-performance-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Fix Black OPS 4 High CPU Usage and Low Performance Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most awaited Call of Duty game yet was finally released 3 days ago on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The game has us excited and everyone seems to be having a good time except for some PC users. it turns out that there is a high\u00a0CPU usage problem on PC that prevents gamers from achieving good performance even though they have good hardware. Let&#8217;s see how you can\u00a0Fix Black OPS 4 High CPU Usage problem.<\/p>\n<h3>How To Fix Black OPS 4 High CPU Usage and Low-Performance Issue<\/h3>\n<p>So this first tip won&#8217;t entirely solve the high CPU usage issue but will take some of the processing burden off of your CPU.<\/p>\n<h4>Tip No. 1<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Step 1-<\/strong> Right-click desktop and go to the Nvidia Control Panel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2-<\/strong> Now go to &#8220;manage 3D settings&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3-<\/strong> Choose &#8220;Call of Duty Black Ops 4&#8221; in program settings and then scroll down to &#8220;pre-rendered frames&#8221; and select 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4-<\/strong> Now apply the settings and exit.<\/p>\n<p>This will take some of the load off from the CPU and hopefully give a slight performance boost. AMD users can do the same from their driver suite.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Black-OPS-4-ingame-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Fix Black Ops 4 high Cpu usage\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Black-OPS-4-ingame-screenshot.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Black-OPS-4-ingame-screenshot-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Black-OPS-4-ingame-screenshot-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Black-OPS-4-ingame-screenshot-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46302\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Black-OPS-4-ingame-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Fix Black Ops 4 high Cpu usage\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Black-OPS-4-ingame-screenshot.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Black-OPS-4-ingame-screenshot-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Black-OPS-4-ingame-screenshot-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thenerdmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Black-OPS-4-ingame-screenshot-1140x641.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h4>Tip No. 2<\/h4>\n<p>Now we will be editing the config.ini file.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1-<\/strong> Go to the directory of your BO4 installation. Normally it is<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">C:Program Files (x86)Call of Duty Black Ops 4 playersconfig.ini\r\n\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><strong>Step 2-<\/strong>\u00a0Look at the following 2 settings and check the corresponding values<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">worker_threads<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">threaded_rendering<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>Most users who were experiencing problems had their default values set to\u00a0numbers like worker_threads 2 and threaded_rendering 0. Change\u00a0threaded_rendering to 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3-<\/strong> As for the\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">worker_threads settings, users have reported that using one less value than the actual number of threads of your CPU works best i.e. if you have a 4 thread CPU then set the value to 3. You will need to experiment a bit and see which value works best.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4-<\/strong> After making the changes save the config file and exit. Now play the game and see if there are any improvements.<\/p>\n<p>This is all, tell us in the comments if this guide helped or if you have any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most awaited Call of Duty game yet was finally released 3 days ago on PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The game has us excited and everyone seems to be having a good time except for some PC users. it turns out that there is a high\u00a0CPU usage problem on PC that prevents gamers from achieving good performance even though they have good hardware. Let&#8217;s see how you can\u00a0Fix Black OPS 4 High CPU Usage problem. 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