# Extremely high cpu usage

**URL:** <https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/extremely-high-cpu-usage/486964>\
**Category:** Platform & Builds\
**Tags:** standalone-game, unreal-engine, CPU, packaged-game, question\
**Created:** [August 2, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/extremely-high-cpu-usage/486964 "2021-08-02T21:15:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/extremely-high-cpu-usage/486964/1 "2021-08-02T21:15:16Z")

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Hi everyone, I am very confused about high CPU usage on my finished and packaged game, when the game is running in the background CPU usage jumps between 55% and 65%. Can I somehow lower this?

My specs;  
AMD Ryzen 5 1600x  
32 GB 3200 MHz DDR4 RAM  
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070Ti