Helldivers 2 High CPU temp and usage, low GPU usage and insane power draw. Need help!

IBALLL3000 · April 29

Ive been loving Helldivers 2 lately, however I have been becoming increasingly frustrated with the games wild performance. I recently bought a 7900xtx and been cruising between 90 - 120fps at 4k depending on how crazy the game got. But in the past week Ive noticed strange performance when playing. Before this week I would get ~30% cpu usage with good temps, mid 60s and 100% gpu usage with temps around low 70s. I started playing this week and have been getting high cpu usage on my 5900x, around 50-60% and temps in the high 70s (~77 C) and my gpu dropping to 70% usage, and as time went on in game it would even go as low as 50%. I also noticed during this time that AMD Adrenalin software refused to work while playing Helldivers and Helldivers only. If it was open it wouldnt show up and if I did get it to finally show it would instantly crash. While playing I noticed that Adrenalin was also taking up a lot of cpu usage, combined with Helldivers it would sometimes get to 70%. I looked it up and people said to enable admin in the setting. After doing that it has been slightly better, I no longer dip into 50% gpu usage and Adrenalin software now works while playing, however I still get dips for the gpu into 70-80& and high cpu usage and temps at times. This seems to only happen in missions, while in the ship I get 100% gpu usage but when I enter a mission and time goes on it dips lower and lower. I find this incredibly weird as the wattage the gpu is pulling is stupid high. I'm pulling anywhere from 400 to almost 500w while only using 70% of the gpu. These performance issues have only been happening in Helldivers 2. Everything else has been running fine. If someone could help me out, whether its the game or my PC it would mean a lot.