Random High Usage

[Stephanie Daneer]

Okay so all of a sudden today my GTX 2080 Super is having high usage when playing FFXIV (like min 98%) when it never used to get over 50%. I ran 3DMark tests and it passed with 99.2% and the usage is fine when I tried CyberPunk and Red Dead 2 but when I tried Little Nightmares is was high usage at 80%. I haven’t updated anything nor changed any settings in the last 48 hours. 
 

Anyone have ideas? I feel like maybe the GPU is starting to go but also don’t. I am so confused. 

[Eigenvektor]

Your GPU running as close to 100% usage as possible is generally what you want. If it isn't, it usually means your CPU isn't fast enough to keep up (aka "CPU bottleneck"). However, it could also happen if you're running at a lower resolution and are capping frame rate.

 

The higher the resolution, the more load is usually on the GPU and the less load is on the CPU. At lower resolutions and resulting higher frame rate, you get more load on the CPU. If the CPU isn't fast enough to keep up, that'll limit frame rates and reduce the usage your GPU sees.

 

Any chance you changed game resolution, installed a driver update that might've removed a previously present frame rate cap or similar? Also, what CPU do you have?

[Stephanie Daneer]

8 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Your GPU running as close to 100% usage as possible is generally what you want. If it isn't, it usually means your CPU isn't fast enough to keep up (aka "CPU bottleneck"). However, it could also happen if you're running at a lower resolution and are capping frame rate.

 

The higher the resolution, the more load is usually on the GPU and the less load is on the CPU. At lower resolutions and resulting higher frame rate, you get more load on the CPU. If the CPU isn't fast enough to keep up, that'll limit frame rates and reduce the usage your GPU sees.

 

Any chance you changed game resolution, installed a driver update that might've removed a previously present frame rate cap or similar? Also, what CPU do you have?

I have my frame rate uncapped and set to max settings. My cpu is an AMD Ryzen 7 3700x. Thanks for the info so far!

[Eigenvektor]

9 minutes ago, Stephanie Daneer said:

I have my frame rate uncapped and set to max settings. My cpu is an AMD Ryzen 7 3700x. Thanks for the info so far!

In that case close to 100% GPU usage sounds fine/expected. Might be the game received an update that reduces CPU load, but since it's an online game it could also vary a lot by the region you're in and how many other people are online. Higher CPU load can result in lower GPU usage, if the CPU can't send data to the GPU to work on quickly enough.

[AI_Must_Di3]

Sounds like Vertical Sync got turned off in the NVCC. For that much of a jump its that or you went from low graphics to ultra, although the look of the game would go from sparse and kinda dull to real bright, high color depth and contrast etc... Auto updates can wipe out settings and reapply default setups, especially windows update which is famous for doing so.

[Stephanie Daneer]

Thanks for your help! Good to know nothing is “wrong” I am just going to have to switch to cpu encoding when streaming I guess since playing FF and streaming is putting my gpu into overload. Lol