High GPU Usage & Abysmal Framerate/Stuttering

[[Knght] HolySmokesBatman]

Despite running with Graphics Quality at Low, the game has been constantly demanding 95-100% of my GPU, resulting in 1-second stutters every 3 seconds ad infinitum. It might have started after a crash to desktop on Galitan. I have verified game files and even done a full reinstall with no luck. I know my build isn't godly, but this has never happened to me in 25 hours of playing on higher settings and now occurs for the entire duration of every Fleet Battle vs players or AI (haven't tried Dogfight).

I'm kind of at a loss here, does anyone have advice?

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Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Intel i7-7700HQ @ 2.8GHz (60-80% total usage including background apps)
16 GB RAM (~80% total usage)
GeForce GTX 1070 (w/ latest drivers. 95-100% usage)
DirectX 12

[Olympic Fighter]

Playing in VR or flat screen?

[[Knght] HolySmokesBatman]

Flat screen

[Olympic Fighter]

Hmmmm, that's a tough one, sounds like the kind of problem a restart would fix but I assume you've tried that by now.....have you tried resetting everything to default?

[[Knght] HolySmokesBatman]

No luck, reset every settings menu to default and reverted most pilot/ship customizations for good measure, relaunched game and issue persists.

[[Knght] HolySmokesBatman]

Ah, the issue goes away in Windowed mode where before I had it on Fullscreen, I suppose I can work with that

EDIT: nvm, the issue comes back before long if the window is not kept small relative to the monitor

[ebe-a51]

Try rolling back drivers. Use signed only, no 'optional'.

Ive also had bad ram do this to me, try benchmark/stress-test your ram - then again it may not be if its ONLY doing the stuttering on squadrons.

try set win10 to use share more ram with the gpu, but 16gb system-total should be fine.

make sure its on a SSD, not a HDD.

... and of course, if youve overclocked anything, dont. undo it. overclocking bad.

But i put my money on rolling back drivers. I had to roll back drivers for a few games recently (squadrons included).

[[Knght] HolySmokesBatman]

Rolling back the driver did help a bit, thanks for the advice.
I also realized I had ever so slightly blocked the airflow of my laptop fans; the GPU temp was apparently already on a knife's edge. Between the two, the game is now playable again for me.

[Those dont go there]

One thing that really hurts laptop gaming on the edge is once things get warm, turbo speeds drop. That can be a huge performance loss and the cooling is not good enough to regain those turbo clocks. Since I hate loud fans I usualy run without GPU turbo (Also called overclocking) turned on. Your performance is more consistant and you can set your graphical settings up accordingly from the start.

[MaJoRPackeTLoss]

They sell coolers that you set laptop on also may be worth the money.

[MaJoRPackeTLoss]

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[rpgpgmr]

Mine had the same problem. I fixed it in the Nvidia Control Panel:

1.) Manage 3D Settings tab
2.) Set Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames to 3 (default was 1)
3.) Set Virtual Reality - Variable Rate Super Sampling to Adaptive (default is off)