GPU issues with Banner Lord (Resolved)

[Aedus Amaterasu]

I am not sure what might be cause this but when I am playing Banner Lord it cranks my GPU up to over 90% usage while playing and over 60% usage just sitting on the main menu screen when you start up the game.

I have on a couple of occasions experienced some serious graphical errors. A couple of time while in a battle all the textures for the environment and characters went black. All i could see what the sky box and unit icons.

My video card is a EVGA GEFORCE GTX 1660 SC ULTRA
Also my video card is brand new.

Here is a link to a image of my task manager while just siting idle looking down on the city where my character is: https://imgur.com/Jtz6W6f

This i have done already to reduce gpu usage:
- reduced all relevant performance settings to the lowest they can go - (No effect)
- reduced the frame rate limiter to 90 fps down from the default 200 fps - (no effect)

So right now I am not sure if its the game or my PC not liking the game or what not but I do know that I don't have this problem with any of my other game like Ashes of the Singularity or X4: Foundations etc.

If anyone has and ideas or knows how to fix this it would greatly appreciated. In the mean time i think I will have to shelve Banner Lord cause I have no desire to ruin my brand new GPU.

[t4chy]

Limit the framerate to something sensible, like the monitor's refresh rate.

[Khamal]

Turn shadows to static, cap to 60 right now reduce sound quality

[t4chy]

Oh, one thing to make your GPU struggle less in sieges and large battles: Reduce the number of visible corpses.

[Aedus Amaterasu]

Originally posted by t4chy:

Limit the framerate to something sensible, like the monitor's refresh rate.

Originally posted by Khamal:

Turn shadows to static, cap to 60 right now reduce sound quality

Originally posted by t4chy:

Oh, one thing to make your GPU struggle less in sieges and large battles: Reduce the number of visible corpses.

Thank you guys for responding. I did all the stuff you guys suggested.

On the main menu my GPU usage went down around 20% and sits around 40% usage and in game it went down around 40% and now sits between 54%-60% usage. That makes me feel a lot more comfortable playing Banner Lord.

Thanks again you guys.

[FD_Stalker]

I never heard of this card, must be new
I just checked the April 2020 GPU throne ladder, AMD is falling behind

[Aedus Amaterasu]

Originally posted by FD_Stalker:

I never heard of this card, must be new
I just checked the April 2020 GPU throne ladder, AMD is falling behind

Here is a link for you if you wanna check it out: https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=06G-P4-1067-KR

[tomo123]

1660 is just abit better then the aging 1060
its an entry level gpu at the moment,I know its stupid since it does cost $$$$ but thats the gpu market we live in today
I play with 1660 super and big battles dip below 60 fps if you dont lower settings