Mr.Miner a Crypto Miner?

[Mithendir]

While playing i noticed that my GPU went up to 98% while just having Mr.Miner active. If true, shouldn't that be included in the game description?! That it uses my GPU for a complete other purpose than just rendering the game?! Thats a thing i would expect of malitious software that my mother downloaded with tha 6th toolbaar on windows explorer... But not with a steam-Game.

[Nefilol Seflll]

If it is, it wouldn't be the first time a crypto miner was disguised as a steam game.

[ShiftTheBlame]

15-20% gpu on rtx 2060 win10 (251km)

[Mika]

From the first day the use of HW has been minimal, I even got to have the game of WAMI and Monster Hunter World at the same time and without problems.

Right now with the game open:
15% GPU usage and 15% CPU usage. HW: i5 3570, GTX 1060 and Windows 7.

The resource consumption depends on the FrameRate which is 60, so I see if I limit to 1 FPs from the MSi the use of GPU is reduced between 1 and 3% (10FPs stays below 5%) but the CPU goes up because of the MSi limiter to 30%.

Keep in mind that the game has many counters and sprites, more levels = more HW required?.

[C_Fear]

Just 9-10% for me, but I am using a dedicated GPU, that might be the difference.

[ShogoKawada]

Its using 15% on my end,and i have an old PC.But wierd is still the client is opened 4 time,never seen that before.

[Alois]

Im on 33% load with 1080, this is craziness

[Beigemidnight]

100mb gpu utilization. It's less than steam overlay service

[goodmaki]

Well remember this game is written in Javascript (JS) which is a completely unoptimized programming language and even very simple JS apps will use much more resources than you may expect. That being said I don't see anything out of the ordinary with its usage, though an investigation into exactly what the resources are being used for couldn't hurt.

[Mika]

Originally posted by Mika:

more levels = more HW required?.

When I put the comment I was at 110 - 120KM with 15% use. Now I'm at 235KM and the GPU usage is 28%.

[Noodlecup]

Originally posted by Mika:

Originally posted by Mika:

more levels = more HW required?.

When I put the comment I was at 110 - 120KM with 15% use. Now I'm at 235KM and the GPU usage is 28%.

I'm at 400Km and using 0.5% CPU

[Alois]

Originally posted by Noodlecup:

I'm at 400Km and using 0.5% CPU

We are talking about video card % load, not cpu.

[Mika]

Originally posted by Alois:

Originally posted by Noodlecup:

I'm at 400Km and using 0.5% CPU

We are talking about video card % load, not cpu.

Exactly, it's the use of GPU, not CPU. Per CPU is not a problem, it doesn't reach 1% (unless you do something, like buy, improve, etc.). Right now I have reached the 300KM and the GPU usage has increased to 30%. So yes, little by little the use of GPU increases.

An important detail

Although the GPU usage is 30% the frequency is 227 MHz, in short, the usage is actually less than 3%, this already happened to me with another game where the GPU usage was 100% but the frequency was 800 MHz. Disabling the "optimal power consumption" and leaving at "maximum performance" it went up to 2012 MHz and the use of the GPU was reduced to 25% approx.

[Alois]

Originally posted by Mika:

An important detail

Although the GPU usage is 30% the frequency is 227 MHz, in short, the usage is actually less than 3%, this already happened to me with another game where the GPU usage was 100% but the frequency was 800 MHz. Disabling the "optimal power consumption" and leaving at "maximum performance" it went up to 2012 MHz and the use of the GPU was reduced to 25% approx.

Yep, you are right. Checked my gpu with gpu-z, its below 10% clock.

[Terra]

i have a rtx3080 and on 280km about 8% gpu usage. around 900mb vram usage.

[Mika]

Originally posted by Terra:

i have a rtx3080 and on 280km about 8% gpu usage. around 900mb vram usage.

Think that there are other processes.

In my case, the use of GPU is 30% at... now it's 134MHz... on the contrary, the use of VRAM is ~400MB and although I close the game it's still ~400MB, the OS uses an amount of VRAM, GPU, CPU and RAM. Windows uses a lot of resources.

Anyway, with that GPU I think you can forget about any problem.