Game seems to not being using my GPU?

[EverChosen97]

Since this game has come out I've been struggling to play due to horrible performance issues and stuttering. All 16gb of ram are being used up, but I've just noticed today that my 2080 super is only using 5% of its memory when the game is running. Even the GPU fans aren't on when the games open, Its barely doing anything. Has anyone else had/got this issue?

[Urieaal]

no way to know for sure, since its not my computer. but do you have virtual memory setup? its possible it could be using the virtual memory instead.

you can try turning it off or down and see if that makes a difference. but otherwise, ive no idea, never heard of a game not using the gpu, or gpu ram.

[EverChosen97]

Originally posted by Urieaal:

no way to know for sure, since its not my computer. but do you have virtual memory setup? its possible it could be using the virtual memory instead.

you can try turning it off or down and see if that makes a difference. but otherwise, ive no idea, never heard of a game not using the gpu, or gpu ram.

Its weird for sure, both me and a housemate were surprised by how little usage it seems to getting when the games open.

[TheJoker47]

This might seem to be an obvious answer, but have you plugged the HDMI cord into the correct port?

[Psyringe]

In Hogwarts Legacy, open the Settings screen, go to "Display Settings", and scroll all the way down. There's an option to select which GPU the game is using. Make sure that it's set to your 2080, and not to any integrated GPU that your CPU might have. Some games get confused if a dedicated GPU and an integrated GPU are both active.

Otherwise, you could check if your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU and the GPU is thus not fully used, though that shouldn't result in a GPU load of just 5% even in the worst possible case.

[Wrong Way Up]

Originally posted by Urieaal:

no way to know for sure, since its not my computer. but do you have virtual memory setup? its possible it could be using the virtual memory instead.

you can try turning it off or down and see if that makes a difference. but otherwise, ive no idea, never heard of a game not using the gpu, or gpu ram.

thats not how virtual memory works

[Waiwai]

Originally posted by Urieaal:

no way to know for sure, since its not my computer. but do you have virtual memory setup? its possible it could be using the virtual memory instead.

you can try turning it off or down and see if that makes a difference. but otherwise, ive no idea, never heard of a game not using the gpu, or gpu ram.

Turning off virtual memory is a bad idea. Hogwart Legacy doesn't use it, but your system does, especially if your system need to put system to sleep automatically.

Tech persons do recommend virtual memory set to a not-busy HDD disk, with the size of at least exact or double of total RAM you have.

But I doubt it will make any different for Hogwarts Legacy, it will most likely crash if you run out of RAM during gameplay, rather than trying to use virtual memory.

If your game is not using the GPU while Hogwarts Legacy runs, you should try to make a clean installation of Nvidia driver and try again, if you don't do clean installation regularly. Sometimes express installation will cause problem due to something is not removed completely.

Otherwise you need to check BIOS or Windows, to check the prefer GPU settings.