93% GPU Usage the whole time Help!

[iokunn]

Hello Guys I am new in this forum and still I came here looking for help I hope you can help me T_T.

 

The thing is that I'm very worried about my Nvidia GTX 1070 hybrid edition. I got it 2 months ago and it was working pretty fine but now something happened the video card is working at 90% the whole time. I mean before when i was playing the GPU core usage and GPU Memory Mhz always were between 90-100% and that was always while I was playing and I never had FPS issues or such.

 

But now the video card is always working at 90% GPU Core and Memory the whole time only at 10 minutes of turning on my PC, even there is something using 2.5 Gbs of memory space in the graphics card D: and let me be clear with this I just turn on my PC and after 10 minute the GPU Usage goes to the sky without any reason and that didnt happen before. It was always 0-5% even when I was using basic PC functions.

 

This is the GPU usage, as you can see the bottom line is the temperature the first 10 minute and the higher line is after those 10 minutes and I am not even touching the PC.

 

I know you may say 'but 41 degrees is ok', but that is causing me problems because since is always working at 93% when i play i have very poor FPS results like 20-30 in games that usually got 60-75.

 

Please help me do you know what could be causing this? I am very worried because my last video card got broken and i dont want to lose this video card as well T_T.

 

this are my PC specs:

SO: windows 10

GPU: EVGA nvidia GTX 1070 hybrid

Driver version: 378.92

CPU: intel core i7-3770

RAM: DDR3 24 gbs

Power Supply: EVGA 750 B2

Mainboard: asrock z77 extreme4

[zMeul]

I bet your PC is infected with a GPU coin miner

 

• check the startup processes
• run an antivirus (Avira, Avast)
• run some MalwareBytes

[IceCold008]

7 minutes ago, zMeul said:

I bet your PC is infected with a GPU coin miner

 

• check the startup processes
• run an antivirus (Avira, Avast)
• run some MalwareBytes

Yea bitcoin Miner. Need to check your system32/tasks folder. Then find the whole folder in the user directory. It will proparly be called something which will make you not unistall it like Nividia or Microsoft. But in fact its all the files for the bitcoin minor. Ive had 2 of them over the last 6 years and im pretty good at getting rid of them now.

[IceCold008]

They usually don't show up on an anti virus scan. You have to check yout tasks folder and find the task which is related to the bitcoin minor but before you delete that file you will need to open it with notepad and find the location of the directory where all the files are. Its usually within your user directory and it hides itself as pretending to be something important like nvidia drivers, or microsoft folder. Its random. Once you have located the correct folder delete it but make sure its the correct folder. Once you do that your GPU load will go back to normal

[iokunn]

1 hour ago, IceCold008 said:

They usually don't show up on an anti virus scan. You have to check yout tasks folder and find the task which is related to the bitcoin minor but before you delete that file you will need to open it with notepad and find the location of the directory where all the files are. Its usually within your user directory and it hides itself as pretending to be something important like nvidia drivers, or microsoft folder. Its random. Once you have located the correct folder delete it but make sure its the correct folder. Once you do that your GPU load will go back to normal

Thanks man i found the source of the problem it was kind of virus indeed but it wasnt located in the system32 folder the thing that i did was to take a picture of the process in the task manager before and after the crazy GPU usage and i found a think called "issch" i did a right click and "open file location". i have killed the process and the GPU usage went to normal again but now i would like to know how to erase it properly because i donk think just doing Shift+Delelete it will be ok. Is there any way to erase it in a way that it wont be appear again?

 

[IceCold008]

Do a reboot and if it comes back again. do another file location. Ive been looking at this file. Some people says its a virus other people say its a trojan bitcoin miner and other people say its a drivers for a printer update program or anything like like. Its hard to tell. If it comes back copy and past the file location on here or google it and see what people are saying. Usually my bitoin miners have a file in the task folder which enables the bitcoin miner to start. Once you find the location of the main files and delete that directory and the task file its usually gone. But ive googles that file and some people say it comes back after a reboot. 

 

Reboot your pc and check again. If it gone thats good if it dont you will have to find the problem all over again. 

[IceCold008]

Oh and run some anti virus programs as well. And some anti maleware programs. Do that first