graphics card running at 90% for no reason

[Andreaskhoi]

The title says it pretty much all. Task manager reports 0-5% usage and Amd drivers are reporting 90-95% usage. Also all of the vram is used up which makes no sense if its not being utilized. I*m not completely sure what's correct and what's not but the card is quite loud and is ruining hotter. I also noticed that my ram usage is unusually high (11gb). This is all with almost no applications running in the foreground.

Apologies for any spelling mistakes.

[GeorgeKellow]

You don't do any cyrpto mining do you? 

 

I would run a virus scan to check for any gremlins.....  

[Middcore]

Dollars to doughnuts you have a crypto mining virus.

[JKRsega]

They beat me to it...

[Andreaskhoi]

1 minute ago, GeorgeKellow said:

You don't do any cyrpto mining do you? 

 

I would run a virus scan to check for any gremlins.....  

Not that i know of. Except if windows comes with a "free" crypto miner built in

 

[Andreaskhoi]

2 minutes ago, Middcore said:

Dollars to doughnuts you have a crypto mining virus.

i would suspect that, but would that explain the high ram usage?

 

 

[GeorgeKellow]

1 minute ago, Andreaskhoi said:

Not that i know of. Except if windows comes with a "free" crypto miner built in

 

Run something like Malwarebytes and post results. 

 

 

[JKRsega]

Probably, yes.

[Andreaskhoi]

2 minutes ago, GeorgeKellow said:

Run something like Malwarebytes and post results. 

 

 

After 20s already 13 detections

 

[Andreaskhoi]

4 minutes ago, GeorgeKellow said:

Run something like Malwarebytes and post results. 

 

 

Probably not super good

[venomtail]

Pretty sure there's so many trojans they started fighting amongst each other over who's gonna get the VRAM

[JKRsega]

Stay off those dodgy websites lad!  Just ran it on mine and clean as my testes.

[Andreaskhoi]

2 minutes ago, venomtail said:

Pretty sure there's so many trojans they started fighting amongst each other over who's gonna get the VRAM

3 gigs of vram isn't alot so yeah i would guess so

[Origami Cactus]

keep in mind that Malwarebytes is not some sort of super tool that can remove even the toughest of viruses, when I screwed up there were some that kept coming back.

Looking at the amount of viruses detected, reinstall windows and don't do whatever you did to this windows install.

Also you have your answer to the original question in the Malwarebytes screenshot, a miner was detected.

[GeorgeKellow]

Knew it was Malware. 

 

New install of windows for you, sir 

[Poinkachu]

And make sure you use a clean ISO
If using pre-cleaned ISO is your thing.