GPU Usage

[Windwalker]

Any reason why this game pegs the GPU at all times?

Windows 10 64Bit (Build 19041.685)
Water cooled gaming system (Dual radiator)
Intel i7-9700K
Geforce RTX 2080 8 GB GDDR6
32 GB System Memory
Installed on SSD

The game runs the GPU at 98 or 99 percent usage even when the menu screen is up. On the world map it uses 60 to 65 percent of GPU.

The reason I do not like the usage is the heat it puts on the system. If I did not run a custom fan setup, this would kill a normal setup. The card in default setup on my PC (no custom fan controls) would be up above 78+ Deg Celsius (172.4+ Deg Fahrenheit) and that heat is a graphics card killer. When I kick my fans up I can keep the temp down around 71 deg Cel but darn it is load to have three fans blasting. I play a bunch of high requirement games and do not normally have this issue.

The above info is with all settings on Low or off, game set to 60 FPS (full screen)

Any way to give us an option to turn down the usage?

[SkiRich]

The early access game uses the unity engine at full power/full cpu in all processes. Its not optimized at all. For debug purposes.
They will eventually change that.
That said, you as the owner of the gpu, have all the tools in the control panels and device drivers to prevent games like this from using too many resources and too much power.
Limit the power consumption in a custom profile for the game in the gpu control panel.

Whatever the final result will be of the optimization process, you should always be making sure any game does not over subscribe your system. Never assume a game will do this for you.

[iceflake_joanna]

Heya!

As mentioned by SkiRich above - we are still in Early Access and this unfortunately means that our game simply is not as optimized as it should be. We are of course working on improving this but as we are also still adding in content to the game, we cannot really do this properly yet - as adding new stuff would usually render most work done on the optimization obsolete. So a known issue at the moment but definitely something we will work on as we develop the game further.

[mike]

My i7 runs this at about 54% CPU utilization.

[Windwalker]

mike の投稿を引用：

My i7 runs this at about 54% CPU utilization.

CPU or GPU ? I was talking about the graphics card GPU, my CPU does fine.

[mike]

My bad, C and G look a lot alike. My GPU, a 1080, sits around 54 (same as CPU), if I set frame limit to 30, and 76% at frame limit of 60. Maybe yours is set to unlimited? If so, then it will run 100% trying to get infinite frames (any game will, I suppose.)

[JonChaos]

Any Chances this will be adjusted soon?

Even when setting graphics to low limited to 30fps the fan of my graphics card is as loud as when i am playing Cyberpunk...

[iceflake_joanna]

Heya!

Sadly this will take some time - as mentioned above, while we are still in Early Access, any optimization we do will take away resources that could be used elsewhere and most likely end up being obsolete work. We are doing some work on this of course, but just not as much as we would want to for the entire game!

[Foosball]

Even in its full release, this game appears not to be fully optimized. My GPU temp more than doubles playing this game and at around 60 degrees the gpu fan just randomly kicks in at a high rate. I can play any other FPS on ultra settings and do not get this type of response.
How can a game like this affect an RTX 2080? Crazy.

[Blutwurst]

well... my 1070GTX runs smooth but my cpu want to vomit xD
funny to hear how such an EA title could nearly brake a RTX but my old lady takes it bravely

[Polyanos]

Yep same here, barely uses 50% - 60% of my CPU and GPU. But even then, isn't that why you bought a GPU. To use it? It's just the same as those crybabies crying when a program/game uses a lot of available RAM, better to have that RAM just sit idle and be an expensive useless decoration, right?

Besides, the fans kicking in at full power at only 60 degrees (Celsius I presume) just smells like bad fan management, there is absolutely no reason to spin the fans at full power at such low temps.

[Foosball]

Ok upon further investigation this game is still poorly optimized.
i7 8700 RTX 2080 32 gigs of RAM this game still spike at 100% GPU usage and ranges wildly from 30 to 100% CPU usage.
Even downscaling the graphical option does not have any sizable effect on GPU usage.
Seriously devs, address this problem please.

[Blutwurst]

Foosball の投稿を引用：

Ok upon further investigation this game is still poorly optimized.
i7 8700 RTX 2080 32 gigs of RAM this game still spike at 100% GPU usage and ranges wildly from 30 to 100% CPU usage.
Even downscaling the graphical option does not have any sizable effect on GPU usage.
Seriously devs, address this problem please.

stop playin AE pls!!!

[Wastefield]

Blutwurst の投稿を引用：

Foosball の投稿を引用：

Ok upon further investigation this game is still poorly optimized.
i7 8700 RTX 2080 32 gigs of RAM this game still spike at 100% GPU usage and ranges wildly from 30 to 100% CPU usage.
Even downscaling the graphical option does not have any sizable effect on GPU usage.
Seriously devs, address this problem please.

stop playin AE pls!!!

If you mean Early Access, check again! This game was released out of Early Access 16.11.2021 with version 1.0. But it sure feels like it was rushed and these optimizations that were "planned", have still not been finished. I tried this free weekend and my RTX 2080 also was randomly blasting its fans to cool down even though I lowered some settings to medium and had FPS capped to 60 and VSYNC On. This game also has the same strange phenomenon than Frostpunk: it keeps taxing even when the game and animations are paused and even in the pause menu! But Frostpunk's graphics seem reasonably demanding and become this taxing only later in the game with a larger, advanced colony - which is certainly not the case with this game. So indeed, better come finish the job - there's no reason for it to do this!!

P.S. I'm used to my RTX 2080 staying mostly quiet while gaming, normally it only needs to spin up its fans when playing in VR - for which I got it after all and there it doesn't disturb - but otherwise it becomes rather annoying quickly with it competing over my speakers...

[Foosball]

Wastefield の投稿を引用：

Blutwurst の投稿を引用：

stop playin AE pls!!!

If you mean Early Access, check again! This game was released out of Early Access 16.11.2021 with version 1.0. But it sure feels like it was rushed and these optimizations that were "planned", have still not been finished. I tried this free weekend and my RTX 2080 also was randomly blasting its fans to cool down even though I lowered some settings to medium and had FPS capped to 60 and VSYNC On. This game also has the same strange phenomenon than Frostpunk: it keeps taxing even when the game and animations are paused and even in the pause menu! But Frostpunk's graphics seem reasonably demanding and become this taxing only later in the game with a larger, advanced colony - which is certainly not the case with this game. So indeed, better come finish the job - there's no reason for it to do this!!

P.S. I'm used to my RTX 2080 staying mostly quiet while gaming, normally it only needs to spin up its fans when playing in VR - for which I got it after all and there it doesn't disturb - but otherwise it becomes rather annoying quickly with it competing over my speakers...

This 100%

[EvilMonk]

A year later and out of ealry access and they have done ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for this problem...
But hey good to see after all this talk about it being fixed before they will finsih up 1.0 and delivering absolutley nothing on it just shows how much they care about their customers.