Why is my gpu being completely utilized, throttles in game?

[Starman]

Why is my gpu being completely maxed out in this game? Like, in the main menu my card is using 280watts, and is power throttling too. I never had this card throttle let alone use more than 280watts. I am playing this game at max settings at 1440p, I never had this problem. Still gets more than playable framerates, but this is insane. My game is now randomly alt tabbing it self to the desktop when this happens.

Some optimizations needs to be done, this should never happen. You would think this game isn't very demanding, but its clearly bringing my 970 to its knees and witcher 3 never even did that on ultra. That says a lot. This is the only game this happened on. I can't imagion a stock non overclocked 970 on this game at 1440p, it would be unplayable at this point. I modded mine, to allow high watts and higher overclocks. Its running at 1575mhz, 4111mhz on the memory. This should be more than enough to run this game without throttling.

I at least get 40-60fps in game, and its funny because my gpu isn't being fully utilized when just driving around. But in the main menu/garage, bam using full power and starts to throttle. Thats very funny.

[F*cky The Drunk-Clown]

Set the card back to stock settings.

[Starman]

Tried, didn't fix it. Instead my fps dropped massively. Card still throttled in the main menu/garage. It never throttles when driving around infact its completely normal when just driving around. It only throttles/uses max power is in mainmenu/garage which I find is very weird.

[Nono54Fr]

I'm guessing your VSync is off, and the GPU delivers all its FPS in the garage, in the hundreds instead of a cool 60FPS. My Radeon has 2 more settings to avoid that : Chill (lower the FPS when nothing is happening on the screen) and Frame Rate Target Control (limit the FPS when it can deliver much much more)

[Starman]

Hmm, i'll give that a try. I wish it delivered all of its fps when driving around haha. Instead of doing it in the garage. Its strange because it uses all of its power avaliable at its power target/limit. It goes all the way up to 100% power in the garage but when driving around it hovers at 65-70 and sometimes hits 80 in the cities. Why would the garage be the only place the game demands full gpu usage? I never really enabled vsync because my monitor only supports up to 75hz oced, I never really hit 60fps unless i'm on the highway. The gpu doesn't use full power when just driving around. The main menu is the only place the card actually throttles, and this is the only game out of 300+ I own that caused this problem.

I get an average of 45ish fps when driving around doing jobs in game, for around 2-3hours rl. But whenever I go into the map or press escape, instant 250+fps. The gpu gets way hotter and uses upwards of 280+watts which is more than some 1070s and 1080s. Temps hovers around 60c to 65c when just driving around. But in the main menu it shoots up to 69c, never hits 70. This card is very good managing its temps, expecially when its using 280+watts. Also the power usage is way lower when driving around. It uses 195watts-205watts. Compared to 280+, thats a big difference.

The main menu thrashes my gpu that needs to be fixed lol. Unless theres a way enable that when driving around, and then i'll be happy with 150+fps lmao.

[CarnageByM]

ATS doesn't know how to utilize a modern GPU properly, your efforts are futile 😂

[GenBrien]

Originally posted by CptEgo:

ATS doesn't know how to utilize a modern GPU properly, your efforts are futile 😂

^this

technically, once dx11 is fully implemented it should help for that

technically...

[Starman]

Originally posted by GenBrien:

Originally posted by CptEgo:

ATS doesn't know how to utilize a modern GPU properly, your efforts are futile 😂

^this

technically, once dx11 is fully implemented it should help for that

technically...

I guess so lol. Doesn't the game have dx11 support? I thought it did lol? My 660 does the same thing as my 970, so even an older gpu has the same issue with the game. Shocked me at first, as I never seen my 970 use that much power.. Holds a strong 1580mhz in game, in the main menu once it hits its power limit, it drops to nearly 1490mhz.

The game has the gpu thing backwards lol, mainmenu seems to get all of the juice meanwhile the actually driving part only gets half of it. I'm wanting to get an 1070/1080, but clearly my gpu is plently for 2018/19 lol. Until things get past the 4gb vram limit, is when I'm forced to buy a new gpu. My 660 is barely holding in there anyways.

[Nono54Fr]

Originally posted by Nono54Fr:

I'm guessing your VSync is off, and the GPU delivers all its FPS in the garage, in the hundreds instead of a cool 60FPS. My Radeon has 2 more settings to avoid that : Chill (lower the FPS when nothing is happening on the screen) and Frame Rate Target Control (limit the FPS when it can deliver much much more)

Originally posted by Starman:

Hmm, i'll give that a try. I wish it delivered all of its fps when driving around haha. Instead of doing it in the garage. Its strange because it uses all of its power avaliable at its power target/limit. It goes all the way up to 100% power in the garage but when driving around it hovers at 65-70 and sometimes hits 80 in the cities. Why would the garage be the only place the game demands full gpu usage? I never really enabled vsync because my monitor only supports up to 75hz oced, I never really hit 60fps unless i'm on the highway. The gpu doesn't use full power when just driving around. The main menu is the only place the card actually throttles, and this is the only game out of 300+ I own that caused this problem.

I get an average of 45ish fps when driving around doing jobs in game, for around 2-3hours rl. But whenever I go into the map or press escape, instant 250+fps. The gpu gets way hotter and uses upwards of 280+watts which is more than some 1070s and 1080s. Temps hovers around 60c to 65c when just driving around. But in the main menu it shoots up to 69c, never hits 70. This card is very good managing its temps, expecially when its using 280+watts. Also the power usage is way lower when driving around. It uses 195watts-205watts. Compared to 280+, thats a big difference.

The main menu thrashes my gpu that needs to be fixed lol. Unless theres a way enable that when driving around, and then i'll be happy with 150+fps lmao.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough.

Your monitor highest refresh rate is 75Hz, meaning it cannot * work with datas that are sent to him faster than 75 times per second. If it receives them at 150, 500 or 2000 times per second, that monitor will reject everything that is above * that 75 limit.

Your VSync is off, meaning the monitor does NOT tell the GPU when it's ready to receive new datas, so the GPU creates all the datas it can (the " 100% / 250+ fps / 280+ watts ") in hope that some of them will be accepted by the monitor. But, even if most of them are rejected, the GPU * still created them, * consuming power and generating heat.

Your GPU has * less issues doing the rendering (" generating new datas ") in a closed space with no animations, than in an open space filled with moving object (garage / map / main menu vs cities / highways). In the garage, the GPU has very little work to do, so it can generate * way more (250+ fps), thus getting hotter (69c, only, because it's throttled). In the cities, the GPU struggles so much than it generates less (45fps), yet * it's not that much cooler (60-65c).

The main menu does not need to be fixed, never had. And it doesn't thrash your GPU. You need to enable VSync, or limit your GPU output to 75 FPS.

*edit: correcting some angrish

[v1deonasty]

Make sure MLAA is off in the graphics settings, almost fried my 970 with that switched on.

[synthohol]

I'd also suggest that you enable V-Sync. Why make your GPU create more images than your monitor can actually show?

In addition, consider to use an additional framerate limiter like Riva Tuner Statistics Server to fix framerate in addition to V-Sync. What this does is in addition to synchronizing GPU output to monitor refresh rate is to even out frame time which adds a minor yet notable smoothness in transition of images being displayed.

[Paul]

Seen this one before its highly likely you need a new psu.

[Starman]

I got a corsair TX650M psu, I have seen the 12v rail drop to 11.7 or 11.8 volts when playing ats. It only does that when I go to the garage in ats. Maybe it might be time for a new psu? I can't even remember when I got that psu, it was around for a good few years. Still running strong as far as I know. I haven't gotten around to try vsync yet, I'll try it tomorrow for sure.

Heres a photo of the inside of my pc... I'll link a newer photo tomorrow if anyone wants to see...
https://imgur.com/a/uiIE8nH

Its much cleaner now, no more dust and way more fans. I also have an AIO water cooler in there now too with some g.skill trident z 3200mhz ram.