100% GPU Usage is that "normal"?

[tjfrankus]

Is it normal for the game to use 99% to 100% of the GPU?
(CPU usage is around 35%)
The GeForce Experience app sets everything to Ultra.
When I lowered everything in the app and the game to HIGH, same thing.
Just curious.

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64.0 GB RAM
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What monitor are you using?
Specifically what resolution and refresh rate is it?
Did you enable Vsync in the in-game settings?

[tjfrankus]

Thanks for our reply.
It's nothing special ... a Dell D Series D3218HN ... 1920 x 1080 ... not sure of the refresh rate and will check on the Vsync settings.

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Originally posted by tomkanfrank:

Thanks for our reply.
It's nothing special ... a Dell D Series D3218HN ... 1920 x 1080 ... not sure of the refresh rate and will check on the Vsync settings.

That's a standard 1080p/60 panel. So if you have vsync off, that would cause your gpu usage to skyrocket to 100%. If you enable vsync in settings, it should normalize I think.

[Horse Glue™]

Is there an FPS limiter option aside from vsync? I remember trying this game and my GPU turned into a rocketship it got so hot - hotter than any game I've ever played. 240hz monitor for this game seems deadly lol

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Originally posted by Ez:

Is there an FPS limiter option aside from vsync? I remember trying this game and my GPU turned into a rocketship it got so hot - hotter than any game I've ever played. 240hz monitor for this game seems deadly lol

In-Game: no. In the Nvidia control panel: Yes there is an FPS limit option.

You don't really need anything like that anyway. Vsync does it for you. Just switch it on and it limits it to the maximum that your monitor is capable of handling.

[Horse Glue™]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Originally posted by Ez:

Is there an FPS limiter option aside from vsync? I remember trying this game and my GPU turned into a rocketship it got so hot - hotter than any game I've ever played. 240hz monitor for this game seems deadly lol

In-Game: no. In the Nvidia control panel: Yes there is an FPS limit option.

You don't really need anything like that anyway. Vsync does it for you. Just switch it on and it limits it to the maximum that your monitor is capable of handling.

The problem is, thats 240fps which makes my GPU go to 100% and get hotter than any game I've ever seen. I guess I could always lower the hz of the monitor to 60

[Xilo The Odd]

Originally posted by Ez:

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

In-Game: no. In the Nvidia control panel: Yes there is an FPS limit option.

You don't really need anything like that anyway. Vsync does it for you. Just switch it on and it limits it to the maximum that your monitor is capable of handling.

The problem is, thats 240fps which makes my GPU go to 100% and get hotter than any game I've ever seen. I guess I could always lower the hz of the monitor to 60

i'd try lowering it to 120hz and have V-sync on and see if your GPU comes down enough. other than that, maybe go for a higher res lower hz display. 2K is pretty cheap and at max settings is pretty much the limit for any game and still being able to maintain 60-120 FPS ranges.

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by Ez:

Is there an FPS limiter option aside from vsync? I remember trying this game and my GPU turned into a rocketship it got so hot - hotter than any game I've ever played. 240hz monitor for this game seems deadly lol

Sort of.

If you edit the file GameUserSettings.ini at the file location %LOCALAPPDATA%/FactoryGame/Saved/Config/WindowsNoEditor/, you should see within it this line:

FrameRateLimit=0.000000

It does what it says.

You can also use the console command t.MaxFPS to control this within game, but that may only be a per-session change.

https://satisfactory.gamepedia.com/Console

[Bobucles]

Is this 1995? GPUs have been using 100% of their effort to give maximum FPS since forever.

Tune in for the next thread: Why is my game not going any faster when task manager doesn't say it's using 100% CPU?

[marklJs]

Originally posted by tomkanfrank:

The GeForce Experience app sets everything to Ultra.
When I lowered everything in the app and the game to HIGH, same thing.

Just curious, does this anything lol or is it just for people who doesn't know anything about graphics?

[tjfrankus]

A lot of great info here, and I appreciate it.
Yea, so I am learning here, (hope that's okay).


Thanks, Aquafawks; you were correct.
I enabled the Vsync in the game and the GPU now hovers around 40%.

But I have also heard, like Bobucles implies, that it is "normal" for GPUs to be cranking out at 100%

Just curious as to the thoughts behind the two different opinions on this.
Thanks again.

[Maehlice]

Originally posted by tomkanfrank:

But I have also heard, like Bobucles implies, that it is "normal" for GPUs to be cranking out at 100%

Just curious as to the thoughts behind the two different opinions on this.
Thanks again.

Noise and heat. If the cooling fans crank up to 100%, and you think it's too loud, limit the GPU. If the processor runs hotter than 80C, consider limiting the GPU. Hotter than 90C, limit it.

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Originally posted by Bobucles:

Is this 1995? GPUs have been using 100% of their effort to give maximum FPS since forever.

Tune in for the next thread: Why is my game not going any faster when task manager doesn't say it's using 100% CPU?

Actually no this is *NOT* True what so ever and completely misleading to people who may not know much about computer hardware (No offense intended to tomkanfrank here. Please do not take offense to my comment. I'm generalizing. Not pointing at you specifically). I have a GTX 1080 Ti and when I play Satisfactory I always do it with vsync enabled. My card never once hits 100% utilization at 1080p/80 (I have an overclocked monitor that can do 80hz) after hours and hours of playing the game. It usually hovers around 40% - 50% because the game is so heavily CPU bound (hundreds or thousands of machines running) that my GPU barely gets to do much of anything in this game. Not all video cards will always be running at 100% in every game. If your video card is then either it's one of two things: The video card is too slow for the games we're trying to play and it's trying as hard as it can to render the game. Or #2: The person playing the game is not using Vsync, or some other frame limiter.

Remember to always keep your FPS limited to your monitor's maximum refresh rate at all times in every game to avoid super-hot video cards with screaming fans.

That is unless you use a 240hz monitor.. then every game is going to have your gpu screaming all the time because there's no video card in existence that can render most of today's games at 240 FPS, even the RTX 3090.

[tjfrankus]

Thanks, Maehlice, for the advice. That is good to know.

No offense taken at all, Aquafawks, in fact you have been more than helpful and I really appreciate it.
As you may have read above, once I enabled Vsync, the GPU now runs at about 40% and the game still looks good.
Still not exactly sure what Vsync does, but heard conflicting thoughts on GPU usage and wanted to learn more about this as no other game I run a lot (Factorio, Anno 1800, ONI, Don't Starve) got the fans a pumping like Satisfactory did. Thinking Vsync must somehow be enabled in those other games (though many aren't really graphically demanding - maybe Anno 1800, but probably not the others).
Thanks again for all the helpful advice.

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Originally posted by tomkanfrank:

Thanks, Maehlice, for the advice. That is good to know.

No offense taken at all, Aquafawks, in fact you have been more than helpful and I really appreciate it.
As you may have read above, once I enabled Vsync, the GPU now runs at about 40% and the game still looks good.
Still not exactly sure what Vsync does, but heard conflicting thoughts on GPU usage and wanted to learn more about this as no other game I run a lot (Factorio, Anno 1800, ONI, Don't Starve) got the fans a pumping like Satisfactory did. Thinking Vsync must somehow be enabled in those other games (though many aren't really graphically demanding - maybe Anno 1800, but probably not the others).
Thanks again for all the helpful advice.

it depends on the games
some games consume a lot of gfx calculations, others do not...

if you let any game run at maximum framerate then yeah you'll get to a point where one component in the computer will be 100% used
in cpu intensive scenarios, it'll be the CPU that's @ 100%
in gpu intensive scenarios, it'll be the GPU that's @100%
there's also the possibilities of moemory or storage being limiting factors ...


none of those are inherently "problems" as long as the game is playable & feels good for you

Vsync is the process of synchronizing the screen refresh rate with the number of frames per second that the gfx card renders

so you're limiting the maximum framerate to the frequency of the monitor (60Hz => 60fps for example, or higher if your screen support higher refresh rate)

Vsync eliminates a defect that's called tearing where the screen is in the middle of refreshing for the current frame/image , when the gpu comes & say : here goes the next frame
and so the monitor continues the refreshing but with the next image

basically you have 2 portions of different frames that'll be displayed on the screen at the same time


and again, GPU usage 100% is not a problem by itself (unless you can't bear the noise of the fan)