Odd GPU usage behaviour

[Airwolf1984]

This is the second time I've seen this happen and I cannot figure out what is causing it. The first time was a few weeks back, almost a few days after I got the card.

Anyway, both times happened while watching a video on YouTube.

 

Might be a little confusing to explain, but here it goes.

 

During the video, the OS would change the UI to Basic, basically turning off Aero because there's not enough resources. Nothing new to me, I've had this happen many times before.

 

So I closed Chrome to stop or at least slow down any GPU activity.

 

I had GPU Tweak running on the first time when it happened. Brand new card, you want to monitor it to see how it does.

 

At that time, I noticed the GPU usage still remained high and clock speeds maxed. Same thing happened again. I don't remember what I did to stop it. I might have just restarted.

 

I loaded up GPU Tweak and Geforce Experience just out of randomness. I really don't know why I did, but after closing that, the GPU usage and clocks speeds started to dip and rise, over and over again and then finally go back to normal idle / lower power state, Aero would come back on it's own. This happened within seconds, but I don't know how long it was stuck for.

 

I'm not overclocking and have the latest drivers and flash version. Chrome is up to date as well. Checked Task Manager to see if a Chrome process was hanging, but nil.

 

Not having any other video related issues, games run fine.

 

Card is a GTX 970 STRIX.

 

Any thoughts?

[Looperted]

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[popy2308]

Go into Chrome advanced settings and disable Hardware Acceleration

[Airwolf1984]

Is there bug with it?

[popy2308]

Is there bug with it?

There's a lot of problems with it, just messing up little things. For example I can't overclock my cards with chrome running without disabling it. Figured that may be the problem, it doesn't do much anyways

[Airwolf1984]

True. I'll give it go anyway. Thanks.

[Airwolf1984]

It seems that the problem may be from the Logitech Gaming Software with the Enable Enhanced Graphics option checked. I had the problem happen again, but I forgot I had left the hardware acceleration in Chrome on, so I'll try with the option from the LGS disabled and leave the option enabled in Chrome. If it happens again I'll know for sure.

 

I will update if it happens again.