GPU usage seems odd - lower then usual power consumption

[Ratchet 27]

I have 3080 10 GB. Undervolted, so usually in uses ~270-280 W

But here I have only seen 180W of usage on ultra / 1440p / FSR2 , and this is when GPU utilization is 99%.

No, I am not CPU limited - I have 5800x
No, I have no issues with PC - other modern games are eating up to 280W

Seems like engine issues, maybe ?

[Aurummorituri]

Originally posted by MCNacho:

no user error. my games use 100% of my gpu.

Commenter error. The game uses 100% of everyone's GPU. He was talking about POWER, not usage. Put GPU power limit and watts in your overlay and try again. Also, yes. I can confirm power usage is low for my 3090.

[RoadDog]

ratchet, what fps do u get with your spec? got a 3080 but only i9 xD so was wondering if i should try it xD but kinda scared it will feel like pudding xD

[Ratchet 27]

Originally posted by RoadDog:

ratchet, what fps do u get with your spec? got a 3080 but only i9 xD so was wondering if i should try it xD but kinda scared it will feel like pudding xD

If ultra preset and FSR /1440p - 60/70 indoors, 45-50 in New Atlantis (which seems to be new Boston from Fallout 4 preformance-wise)

With ~high preset (some optimization guides from reddit / forums) - around 60 in town

[Prismaa]

My 7900xtx has 100% gpu usage too, also my core clocks shot to 3200mhz which kept crashing my card since it's way too high, managed to fix the crashing by limiting the core clocks to 2700mhz in AMD adrenaline.

[neamerjell]

My specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
32 GB DDR 4
2 TB SATA SSD game drive, 500 GB M.2 boot drive (Windows 10)
Samsung 4K TV using HDMI

Played at 4k, MAXED SETTINGS and still got 99% GPU usage, 26-28% CPU usage, 44% ram usage, avg 36 fps. The fact that this even plays at 4K is impressive, the game defaulted to maxed settings, so I decided to try it just to see what happens.

I spent the first hour just exploring the ship and taking screenshots of the absolutely GORGEOUS textures! I just wish the NPCs and character choices looked that good... Shout out to all the modders who made the body mods for Skyrim: please port Apachi Skyhair, The Eyes of Beauty, etc. to Starfield. However, I can see why the developers didn't spend a lot of time on the characters, since most of the time the player is going to be looking at the first person view, or the back of their character's helmet.

I really don't see what all the people are complaining about - other than the fact that they have potato PCs and somehow think this is the game's fault. Seriously, the characters are my only gripe, and they will eventually be fixed by modders. I am glad I upgraded my GPU in time for launch, because I doubt my old MSI 1660 Ti would be able to run this at any more than 1080 with medium settings - and it would be huffing and puffing just to keep up with that.

[AEON]

Originally posted by neamerjell:

My specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
32 GB DDR 4
2 TB SATA SSD game drive, 500 GB M.2 boot drive (Windows 10)
Samsung 4K TV using HDMI

Played at 4k, MAXED SETTINGS and still got 99% GPU usage, 26-28% CPU usage, 44% ram usage, avg 36 fps. The fact that this even plays at 4K is impressive, the game defaulted to maxed settings, so I decided to try it just to see what happens.

I spent the first hour just exploring the ship and taking screenshots of the absolutely GORGEOUS textures! I just wish the NPCs and character choices looked that good... Shout out to all the modders who made the body mods for Skyrim: please port Apachi Skyhair, The Eyes of Beauty, etc. to Starfield. However, I can see why the developers didn't spend a lot of time on the characters, since most of the time the player is going to be looking at the first person view, or the back of their character's helmet.

I really don't see what all the people are complaining about - other than the fact that they have potato PCs and somehow think this is the game's fault. Seriously, the characters are my only gripe, and they will eventually be fixed by modders. I am glad I upgraded my GPU in time for launch, because I doubt my old MSI 1660 Ti would be able to run this at any more than 1080 with medium settings - and it would be huffing and puffing just to keep up with that.

What an absolute low IQ reply. You obviously know nothing about PC hardware, wattage, power draw or anything of the sort. Massive amounts of people are having issues running the game. It is 100% the games fault for the issues people are having. The low power usage is something a lot of people have been noticing and seems to be just the tip of the iceberg.

People with 2080's or 3070's are 100% not potato Pc's...

It really hurts my brain to see this type of reply. It's almost like you did not read the original post, or maybe you really are just low IQ surface level Pc gamer that probably buys his builds and therefore thinks he knows how these systems work.

[Ankh]

I'm having the same 180w power limit with a 3060 Ti while other games pull 240w. GPU usage is 99% in all cases.

I checked out RandomGaminginHD's recent video and his 4060 Ti is also limited to 115w while the card TDP spec is 150w.

EDIT: I also used Intel's PresentMon utility to identify a CPU/RAM bottleneck but the "GPU busy" graph perfectly aligns with the frametime graph so I am GPU bound.

[LogRaam]

Originally posted by neamerjell:

[...] Shout out to all the modders who made the body mods for Skyrim: please port Apachi Skyhair, The Eyes of Beauty, etc. to Starfield. However, I can see why the developers didn't spend a lot of time on the characters, since most of the time the player is going to be looking at the first person view, or the back of their character's helmet. [...]

Here is the link for The Eyes of Beauty: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/493?tab=description&BH=11

[LogRaam]

Originally posted by neamerjell:

My specs:
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
32 GB DDR 4
2 TB SATA SSD game drive, 500 GB M.2 boot drive (Windows 10)
Samsung 4K TV using HDMI

Played at 4k, MAXED SETTINGS and still got 99% GPU usage, 26-28% CPU usage, 44% ram usage, avg 36 fps. The fact that this even plays at 4K is impressive, the game defaulted to maxed settings, so I decided to try it just to see what happens.

I spent the first hour just exploring the ship and taking screenshots of the absolutely GORGEOUS textures! I just wish the NPCs and character choices looked that good... Shout out to all the modders who made the body mods for Skyrim: please port Apachi Skyhair, The Eyes of Beauty, etc. to Starfield. However, I can see why the developers didn't spend a lot of time on the characters, since most of the time the player is going to be looking at the first person view, or the back of their character's helmet.

I really don't see what all the people are complaining about - other than the fact that they have potato PCs and somehow think this is the game's fault. Seriously, the characters are my only gripe, and they will eventually be fixed by modders. I am glad I upgraded my GPU in time for launch, because I doubt my old MSI 1660 Ti would be able to run this at any more than 1080 with medium settings - and it would be huffing and puffing just to keep up with that.

The Eyes of Beauty:
https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/493?tab=posts&BH=3

[tank16365]

With graphics set to High, my GPU fans turn on once every 2-3 minutes for 10 seconds or so. When set to Ultra they're on constantly. I'm not sure which is better for the GPU put I've got it set to High

[AEON]

I've been seeing this in a lot of places. The game will tell you 100% of your GPU is being used, but at the same time it's not drying all of its power. Which is probably why it's saying it's being 100% used in the first place.

I don't know if it's related to the crazy crashes people have been experiencing, where their first 10 to 40 hours of gameplay is Flawless, then endless crashes randomly start happening and it doesn't matter what fix you try to apply. All the performance issues with this game are just very strange

[Madgopher]

are you running CPUID HW monitor then you can set up performance graphs

[Tekvorian]

If you are still crashing, try this: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1716740/discussions/0/3824173836665824637/

[Northstrider]

One of the main reasons the power consumption is lower than on many other modern titles is the abscence of DLSS which has its own lineup of dedicated hardware, known as CUDA cores. Since the game doesn't support that feature, the cores remain unused so the card doesn't get to use all its features, which means less power consumption.