GPU not being used at all?

[Razzy]

I'm going to preface this with the fact that I'm not tech savvy. My drivers are all up-to-date as well.

TLDR: CPU (i7-8700) running at 85% - 88%, GPU (RTX 3080) running at 0.01% - SSD. Am I missing something/doing something wrong?

Ever since the latest hotfix, I haven't been able to play; I haven't been able to finish a mission without crashing at least once, which usually occurs at the last objective, or during the extraction. Prior to this hotfix, I have been running the game flawlessly on medium settings at 90+ FPS, even during the two closed betas I participated in.

Having not played in a couple of days, I decided to try again - but with the Task Manager open. After getting into a match, I realised that my GPU (RTX 3080) usage for Darktide was sitting at 0.01% the entire time, and my CPU (i7-8700) was at 85% - 88%. I headed straight to the forums and located their "[PC] How to Resolve Darktide Using the Incorrect GPU" fix, which just told me it was using my RTX 3080. This is also being played on an SSD.

So what am I doing wrong? What have I done wrong? Or is this simply an issue with the game itself? I launched several other games, and they utilised my GPU immediately - according to Task Manager.

edit: CPU hitting 100%. Also, I know Task Manager isn't a reliable GPU measuring source, but it measures other games fine.

[The Chicken Man]

Also have this issue. Tried the forum post and no fix. Even disabling my integrated graphics the game wont run with my card for some reason. Monitoring this post.
I have a 3060 laptop gpu for reference.

[Hermac666]

Your CPU is bottlenecking and throttling your GPU, you are probably playing at 1080p resolution? Your graphics is designed for 1440p or 4K resolutions, unless you need a more powerful CPU to not slow down the graphics card. Try experiment mode maximize ALL graphics options and then check the GPU and CPU usage

[Razzy]

Originally posted by Hermac666:

Your CPU is bottlenecking and throttling your GPU, you are probably playing at 1080p resolution? Your graphics is designed for 1440p or 4K resolutions, unless you need a more powerful CPU to not slow down the graphics card. Try experiment mode maximize ALL graphics options and then check the GPU and CPU usage

I've tried this before and it didn't do anything. Decided to try it again after reading your comment, and still no changes. Maxed everything, and it only puts more stress on the CPU. I'm also running it on the correct resolution. Like it says in the first sentence below TLDR: my performance has been tanking ever since the latest hotfix.

I even launched Vermintide 2, and I could see it utilising my GPU immediately, and my CPU usage was around 40%-50% unlike Darktide.

[Razzy]

Originally posted by The Chicken Man:

Also have this issue. Tried the forum post and no fix. Even disabling my integrated graphics the game wont run with my card for some reason. Monitoring this post.
I have a 3060 laptop gpu for reference.

Hopefully someone can shed some light on this issue. I'm hoping it's something I can fix myself, but it's only been an issue since the latest hotfix. So I don't think it'll be that easy, and will have to rely on Fatshark to fix it.

[Zonked Wheezy]

Originally posted by The Chicken Man:

Also have this issue. Tried the forum post and no fix. Even disabling my integrated graphics the game wont run with my card for some reason. Monitoring this post.
I have a 3060 laptop gpu for reference.

I have the same problem with the same laptop GPU. It doesn’t seem to be using 3060 and is instead using my integrated. I’ve done everything under the sun to get it working and nothing has fixed it. In the settings, I can’t even turn on DLSS because it doesn’t detect an RTX card in my laptop. Very annoying and I haven’t been able to find a fix.

[Lavian]

Originally posted by Zonked Wheezy:

Originally posted by The Chicken Man:

Also have this issue. Tried the forum post and no fix. Even disabling my integrated graphics the game wont run with my card for some reason. Monitoring this post.
I have a 3060 laptop gpu for reference.

I have the same problem with the same laptop GPU. It doesn’t seem to be using 3060 and is instead using my integrated. I’ve done everything under the sun to get it working and nothing has fixed it. In the settings, I can’t even turn on DLSS because it doesn’t detect an RTX card in my laptop. Very annoying and I haven’t been able to find a fix.

If you're on a laptop, then your probably just need to open the NVIDIA Control Panel, go to the Program Settings tab, and flip Darktide over to using the graphics card, as it probably defaulted to the integrated graphics.

If that's one of the things you tried and it's still doing that, that truly is strange.

[roddy]

anyone found a resolution for this? Asking for a friend I'm playing with. He's getting discouraged to play because of this problem :(

[Little Strawberry]

Originally posted by Razzy:

Also, I know Task Manager isn't a reliable GPU measuring source, but it measures other games fine.

Your GPU is not being used for the game if you open the task manager or have another window in focus, as it'll push the window into the background. If you want to measure your GPU utilization with the task manager you have to put the game into windowed mode (not borderless) and keep the game running on a visible screen with the task manager as small as possible, but even then it's only semi useful, because the occluded part is not rendered and a lot might be offloaded to dwm.exe. You can also just disable vsync/fps cap to force it to get higher.