Very high power usage

[Cuddles]

Hi, I'm having a worrying issue playing koikasu party after getting a new psu since my old one had a bad sparking issue when booting up and shutdown, this issue started happening when I started to play koikatsu party from time to time and eventually I stopped using my pc mid January and got my laptop out waiting for a replacement of my PSU which is a "EVGA SUPERNOVA 850 G+"

When I got my new psu back and installed on my computer on the 22nd February everything was fine and today I decided to go on koikatsu party for the first time since i had my old psu. It started up all fine there were no issues, but when i got into the gameplay my psu was making some noise. Now I know your computer obviously makes some sounds when you're play a game but this noise was directly coming from the psu so I opened up task manager and saw that when im in a sex scene or just roaming around in the school, the power usage of the game is "very high" and it stays as that unless its the main menu, loading screen, your room or the screen switching from casual chit chat to sex scene.

I got worried with seeing the "very high" power usage when just playing the game so I exited the game and tried two other games which were "sven co-op" & "serious sam fusion". I tested sven co-op and everything was fine (it should be anyway) so i quit that and did serious sam fusion, it was all ok as well with a little bit of noise but the power usage was ok. just a FYI serious sam fusion performance settings were all on ultra.

So is there settings i can change for koikatsu party that will make it say more friendly and not make me worry about my new psu from doing the same as my old one.

Just to say I got both the HF patch and the other one that adds tons of stuff to character customization

TL;DR: very high power usage when playing the game but on two other games its completely fine on max settings as well and has low power usage.

[71006.1644]

This game can really drain your graphics resources. Your graphics card is ramping way up and is pulling some serious power to use its resources to show the graphics display demanded of this game. Probably your cpu is also pilling more power for the same reason. Nowadays, with graphic cards requiring their own independent power source, 850 isn't really all that much power anymore.

[Cuddles]

But for a game like this, it shouldn't be any major issues my pc specs should be completely fine running a game like koikatsu party

my specs:

Graphic card: GTX 1080 TI
CPU: i7 -4790k (4.0GHz)
PSU: EVGA SUPERNOVA 850 G+ (as i put in the thread)

So really a game like this shouldn't strain so much.

[Dunkler Messias]

If the temperatures are okay, there is nothing to worry about.

It seems that your new PSU is just noisy. That your old PSU got sparkling issues ... welp, just a happy little accident.

[Cuddles]

yeah I got a CPU cooler and never seen an issue with temperature as it always feels cool when i touch the top of my PC where my fans are, so i don't believe its overheating. Its just really worrying seeing the "very high" power usage as the previous psu sparking happened around the time I played this game quite a bit and is the same one that now i've got a replacement of. I also just 5mins ago looked at the rank for the PSU and its GOLD RANK so I can't say its bad.

[71006.1644]

You're probably right, which is why you aren't having any problem running it, but this game is very graphics and computing intensive, which is why it pulls so much power. It has to keep track of a buttload of data. The more students you've got in the academy, the more data it's constantly processing and the more graphics info it has to constantly update. That takes a helluva lotta power. Just be glad that your system can handle it and doesn't go on strike mid-game. But seriously, 850 isn't really all that much anymore, ten-fifteen years ago, that would have been pretty good. Nowadays, not so much. And, of course, better cooling is mandatory now.

[Cuddles]

Originally posted by 71006.1644:

The more students you've got in the academy, the more data it's constantly processing and the more graphics info it has to constantly update. That takes a helluva lotta power.

That's probably why its stressing so much because i've been trying to fill all the 3 classrooms with characters that i've made in the character customisation,so there is quite a lot of students. But if that was the case wouldn't i be having fps or stuttering issues? because everything is running fine no jumps in movement or lag of the other students. Another thing, if its because of the number of students roaming around the campus is why its straining on power, then why it still sounds like its still straining when its just you interacting with a student as everything else is removed.

[Dunkler Messias]

Originally posted by Malin:

Originally posted by 71006.1644:

The more students you've got in the academy, the more data it's constantly processing and the more graphics info it has to constantly update. That takes a helluva lotta power.

[...] i've been trying to fill all the 3 classrooms with characters that i've made in the character customisation,so there is quite a lot of students. But if that was the case wouldn't i be having fps or stuttering issues? because everything is running fine no jumps in movement or lag of the other students.

It seems that your computer can handle it. Thats why you don't have fps problems. ;-)

Another thing, if its because of the number of students roaming around the campus is why its straining on power, then why it still sounds like its still straining when its just you interacting with a student as everything else is removed. [/quote]

Because in the conversation and H scenes high poly models are used, while in the free roaming (with all the students loaded and running around) low poly models are used, so it does not affect the performance that hard.

If you are still worried that your computer might get damaged due to the high graphics ... since you installed the HF Patch: Open the settings menu (F1) and click in the upper right corner on the small grey button "Plugin" and search for "graphics". Make sure that there is no Downsampling enabled. Also deactivate or lower the Antia Aliasing, the resolution, ...

[Cuddles]

If you are still worried that your computer might get damaged due to the high graphics ... since you installed the HF Patch: Open the settings menu (F1) and click in the upper right corner on the small grey button "Plugin" and search for "graphics". Make sure that there is no Downsampling enabled. Also deactivate or lower the Antia Aliasing, the resolution, ...

Sorry that this is a stupid and lazy question but am i able to do that at the main menu where the strain i hear on my PSU isn't there?

[Dunkler Messias]

Yes. The settings are available there.

[Cuddles]

If you could be so kind, could u type/give me a list of what stuff to disable without affecting the game too much such as quality. As I wish there were a guide for something like this but neither steam or searching on browser has something like that. Its just so I can ease myself to play the game again as I enjoy playing.

[Dunkler Messias]

Lower the resolution, lower/disable AA, frame limit to 30, lower shadow resolution.

btw the game itself have got graphics settings, too. So remove some ticks (especially the Ambient Occlusion one) and see how it looks. You don't need to restart the game, so you change the settings ingame.

[Cuddles]

ok thank you, I'll try that stuff out later on.

[Cuddles]

Ok I disabled a couple of things in the graphic settings such as fog, ambient occlusion, bloom and one other thing on the "visual effects". I didn't do the story but I did the "have sex" and it seems ok, another friend of mine said everything is fine with what i've said and im getting worked up on an occasion thing with games having "very high" power usage which is likely and im just being anxious about my psu. So hopefully nothing will happen and I can play koikatsu party and other games without being anxious with power issues.

[Jehuty]

Make sure you don't have high poly mode enabled as well, this can be very taxing (search "poly" in mods settings).

[Cuddles]

yeah I had that enabled but wouldn't disabling that make a big difference with quality on the characters?