Windows 11 running multiple background apps on GPU

[Evicous]

I was trying to run Hogwarts Legacy on my PC (yes I know it's usually hit or miss) and it usually runs fine for me. I can play with a fairly non-buggy experience. Today I tried to fire it up for my kiddo to play and it got through the loading screen and crashed several times. On the last crash it stated that it had run out of video memory. This has never happened to me before and when I went to check what was using all of my VRAM, I see several windows apps running on the GPU and several programs as well: steamhelper, discord, cortana???? and several other apps. I have no idea why they're running on my GPU and I can't seem to find a way to make it stop. Any ideas? Couldn't find anything else on the forum as to why it's happening. Thanks for the help.

[Mark Kaine]

run mwb full scan.  otherwise this seems fairly normal for non modified windows (ie insufferable) 

[starsmine]

9 minutes ago, Evicous said:

I was trying to run Hogwarts Legacy on my PC (yes I know it's usually hit or miss) and it usually runs fine for me. I can play with a fairly non-buggy experience. Today I tried to fire it up for my kiddo to play and it got through the loading screen and crashed several times. On the last crash it stated that it had run out of video memory. This has never happened to me before and when I went to check what was using all of my VRAM, I see several windows apps running on the GPU and several programs as well: steamhelper, discord, cortana???? and several other apps. I have no idea why they're running on my GPU and I can't seem to find a way to make it stop. Any ideas? Couldn't find anything else on the forum as to why it's happening. Thanks for the help.

They all use hardware acceleration. 




Turning them off wont fix your crash really though. 
This is what a GPU is ACTUALLY for. 
You generally don't want to turn off hardware acceleration as your CPU will chug on it running in software mode instead which will often make your fps even worse. You want it on.

Make sure you have REBAR on in the bios to prevent some VRAM crashes (you will find this in your bios settings). After that, make sure your settings are not trying to dump 20GBs of textures and frame buffers inside your vram, as it will overflow. 

[Evicous]

17 minutes ago, starsmine said:

They all use hardware acceleration. 




Turning them off wont fix your crash really though. 
This is what a GPU is ACTUALLY for. 
You generally don't want to turn off hardware acceleration as your CPU will chug on it running in software mode instead which will often make your fps even worse. You want it on.

Make sure you have REBAR on in the bios to prevent some VRAM crashes (you will find this in your bios settings). After that, make sure your settings are not trying to dump 20GBs of textures and frame buffers inside your vram, as it will overflow. 

Thanks I'll give some of this a shot.

[Crunchy Dragon]

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