100% GPU Usage In The Rift

Deadmano

So I had the issue before where having the game minimised keeps your GPU usage at 100%... Well, now in The Rift, anywhere outside the cities like Riften, my GPU usage goes up to 100%. I'm sorry, but these are console graphics, even Skyrim had better graphics, and poorly optimized as it may I'm not going to burn my R9 390x 8GB VRAM card for this...

Can anyone else, with any GPU, confirm that they get absurdly high GPU usage in The Rift, outside of cities? For example just outside Riften? I have NO OTHER players, there is no combat going on, maybe only a single NPC visible... What is it trying to do? Are we all secretly part of a folding group to super-compute the next Fallout game for Bethesda???

This is ridiculous. Other areas I get the normal 50/60% usage... And I'm only using 1.7GB of my 8GB VRAM available. This is pushing temps dangerously towards 80c, for what? I can much rather stop playing if that is the case, as I WILL have my card burn out on me, I get artifacting due to reaching 84c, despite the card shutting itself down as supposed to.

@ZOS_GinaBruno?? Any ZOS representatives even around anymore? On holiday or something? This isn't a F2P game, I bought it, I expect some level of support?

Deadmano

/EndRant I actually dropped the settings down to Medium, the graphics aren't the best in any case, so I am not losing out. Having them at Ultra was doing something crazy, got the card running slightly cooler and not at 100% peak usage, though still happens when you minimise the game.

Figures this is a long-term game, I can't mod in 4K+ textures so there is no point rendering it at ultra in any event. Maybe when they actually bring in multi-core rendering we can look at other options.

rsd008

@Deadmano if you're using nvidia gpu and you get gpu usage at 99% when alt-tab go to nvidia control panel and switch nvidia power consumption from optimal to adaptive......that worked for me and now usage is at 65-70%

LeagueTroll

rsd008 wrote: »

@Deadmano if you're using nvidia gpu and you get gpu usage at 99% when alt-tab go to nvidia control panel and switch nvidia power consumption from optimal to adaptive......that worked for me and now usage is at 65-70%

Post is from 2015 and op stated it is a 390x

Tyreal1974

JWKe

rsd008 wrote: »

@Deadmano if you're using nvidia gpu and you get gpu usage at 99% when alt-tab go to nvidia control panel and switch nvidia power consumption from optimal to adaptive......that worked for me and now usage is at 65-70%

Thanks!