Dark Souls 3 100% GPU usage? Help appreciated.

[Tethryss]

So everything on my computer is working perfectly fine, but for some reason whenever I play Dark Souls 3 it uses 100% of my GPU?....
Anyone know how to fix this? I got a GEforce GTX 960M graphics card if that helps at all.

[Tethryss]

Addition: I know very little of computers, I don't even know if this is bad or not but I assume so.

[Dillterrorcreed]

Well, first of all, which settings do you have in the game? low, mid, high or ultra?

[Tethryss]

Originally posted by Dillterrorcreed(Vote Bunnylord):

Well, first of all, which settings do you have in the game? low, mid, high or ultra?

High.
I tried it on medium and low and that didn't do anything.

[Admiral Bong]

how much vram do u have ?

[Tethryss]

Originally posted by wonbong:

how much vram do u have ?

15.9 GB?
If that doesn't seem accurate tell me, I am going off of what my Geforce Experience is telling me.
Again, I am sorry I am clueless when it comes to computers.....

[Admiral Bong]

Originally posted by Terrix:

Originally posted by wonbong:

how much vram do u have ?

15.9 GB?
If that doesn't seem accurate tell me, I am going off of what my Geforce Experience is telling me.
Again, I am sorry I am clueless when it comes to computers.....

hey man vram is your graphics card for example i have a gtx 1060 which has 6gbvram

[Tethryss]

Originally posted by wonbong:

Originally posted by Terrix:

15.9 GB?
If that doesn't seem accurate tell me, I am going off of what my Geforce Experience is telling me.
Again, I am sorry I am clueless when it comes to computers.....

hey man vram is your graphics card for example i have a gtx 1060 which has 6gbvram

Um....
Well I got a Geforce GTX 960m
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60Hz
15.9 RAM
Total available Graphics Memory: 10189MB
2048 MB Dedicated Video Memory.

Help at all?

[Admiral Bong]

Originally posted by Terrix:

Originally posted by wonbong:

hey man vram is your graphics card for example i have a gtx 1060 which has 6gbvram

Um....
Well I got a Geforce GTX 960m
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60Hz
15.9 RAM
Total available Graphics Memory: 10189MB
2048 MB Dedicated Video Memory.

Help at all?

oh i see ur on a laptop well i had a gtx 950 it jsut ran a lil slow but it shouldnt effect u that much i know the setting doesnt really change much but try to keep it low there should be a video on how to make the graphics in darksouls 3 even lower than the defult "low" recommed to try that

[Tethryss]

Originally posted by wonbong:

Originally posted by Terrix:

Um....
Well I got a Geforce GTX 960m
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60Hz
15.9 RAM
Total available Graphics Memory: 10189MB
2048 MB Dedicated Video Memory.

Help at all?

oh i see ur on a laptop well i had a gtx 950 it jsut ran a lil slow but it shouldnt effect u that much i know the setting doesnt really change much but try to keep it low there should be a video on how to make the graphics in darksouls 3 even lower than the defult "low" recommed to try that

Ah OK thank you very much.

[Admiral Bong]

Originally posted by Terrix:

Originally posted by wonbong:

oh i see ur on a laptop well i had a gtx 950 it jsut ran a lil slow but it shouldnt effect u that much i know the setting doesnt really change much but try to keep it low there should be a video on how to make the graphics in darksouls 3 even lower than the defult "low" recommed to try that

Ah OK thank you very much.

hope it helped man :) havea nice day

[gackie]

GPU usage is based on VRAM being used. VRAM is like a special RAM used exclusively for video game graphical rendering. Unfortunately, we just can't help you without knowing how much VRAM your GPU model has.

[gackie]

Example: If you had a 2GB VRAM model and your game was using 1GB, you'd probably have about 50% GPU load.

[OneAboveSecond]

Hello a 960m is really the minimum this game needs to run power wise (FromSoftware PC port after all). Seeing as how this is a laptop gpu that is just another thing this game is not optimized for. I have a gtx 870m 3gb and it is fully maxed out as well. High GPU usage is not necessarily a bad thing what likly more important is temperature inside your system. Download "Hardware Info / hardware monitor" programs that will allow you to monitor temperature in your system. Ideal tempuratures for CPU and GPU would be 60-70 Celsius. If you have a slim metal laptop your temps are probably higher like 70-80 C.

The Only Fix would be trying a program like throttlestop that can limit your FPS in game to the lowest number you can stomach however if your temps are fine then I wouldn't worry.

[cooperman]

its useing 100% because your gpu is weak (a game is supposed to utilize 100% of the gpu anyway)