How to fix games that stutter due to a CPU bottleneck

Is your GPU suffering due to a CPU bottleneck, making your Counter Strike 2 / Apex Legends / The Finals / Call of Duty / Helldivers or Battlefield a stuttering mess? Watch this video to learn some tricks that will help you minimize the stuttering that happens in such bottlenecks and as a plus - understand what's going on under the hood to cause stuttering in the first place!

Useful CPU overclocking resources:

Games featured in this video:
Battlefield V / Insurgency: Sandstorm / Apex Legends / Control / The Finals / Counter Strike 2 / Red Dead Redemption 2

[Daiylif]

This explanation is what im looking for years on how to solve cpu bottlebeck issue! Simple and straightforward! Very nice!

[hryashborsh]

Hi there, great vid! Proud daily user of i7 2600k here
You should also keep in mind that games usually dont use a lot of cores, and cpu usage % is only showing you the average usage per all cores
If you try playing half life 2, for example, youre most likely will be bottlenecked by your cpu while its showing very low load (its using 2-3 cores), the more cores idling -- the less load percentage
You can set up rivatuner to show the load of each core (its still much harder than that to check how is your cpu keeping up with your gpu, but it still gives you more information about your performance)

[dhilzz]

The theory is simple, but it took me 2 years to solve my problem, thank you bro

[popcorn]

This is the best explanation on bottle neck I really learnt something new today for old old pc gamer thank you 👍

[VisionCS]

This is the BEST video explaining potential bottlenecks - confirmed my suspicions

Appreciate it mate! Subbed for suuureee

[dFZGhost]

Thanks alot man I use a i5 3470 with a 6650xt and the stuttering is crazy but now the game runs smooth

[ThisOLmaan]

Thank you for the OC Link to Toms Hardwear best guide i seen.

[cladosdiamantes]

The only bottleneck calculator that is not fake is the one that calculates the specific bottleneck of a specific game

[surfer]

While what you said can limit stutter, it is not ideal because it tanks your fps AND you would still get dips in the frametime graph especially with older graphics cards with low vram. The easiest and most straightforward solution is to monitor the fps you get using your usual low settings and write down the minimum fps value, then cap the framerate to that minimum fps. Capping fps will get you the most stable framtime without losing much fps compared to just cranking up resolution.

[EAFCTIMMY]

best video i seen on youtube explaining bottelneck and how its affecting your channel 👍👍👍

[markosimic]

Wow, when I ask people how to fix stuttrrs, they usually just tell me to buy a new laptop. Didn't even think about this CPU draw call bottleneck thing. Thanks man

[FilippoCarrux]

really nice video! next step -> overclock the 6700k to 4.8ghz all core.

[HeyElii]

Clear and straight forward explanation with promising solutions, thanks brother!

[alxluthor]

BRO! You have no idea how much your video and explanation helped me understand why was I having this exact same issue. I'll be testing these tweaks asap

[Spintin]

u used the bottleneck calculator wrong u need to put graphicly intensive tasks isntead of general tasks

[TuanHoang-smtj]

Damn the super resolution thingy actually worked, thank you man you saved my life, been looking for this problem for like 5 months

[charlsgleenpabillaran]

Thank you so much this really helps me a lot coz I have a problem of Cpu bottleneck

[manuelwegeling]

Holyshit. Thank you so much! My fps went up by 20fps. Highly underrated channel!

[SLModernJukebox]

Great Explanation. it's very helpful to me
I know scaling resolution size reduce cpu high usage
But I didn't know what are the graphic settings of the
game that affect the cpu. Thank you very much telling for us.

[LucYGaming_]

thanks to your explaination, i can FINALLY play The last of us part 1 remake at almost 60 FPS all the time, when theres no enemys, the game goes at 75 fps, but then drops to like 45-60, wich is WAAAY better than the 25-30 i got most of the time, and that is cause you made me look for the option for the resolution scaling for AMD cards, wich is making a huge difference!

Thank you and i hope your channel does well friend :)