PC lags/video engine load 100% when opening steam while gpu-z is running

[♥ RyoL ♥]

Hi, I've just encountered something strange. It happens when I launched steam while gpu-z is running. After a few seconds, the mouse begins to slow down, like it begins to freeze and moments later, the gpu clocks goes up and the video engine rosed up to 100% for no reason which means no media player was running. It still does it when I closed steam. The only way to stop was to load a simple video on potplayer and then, display driver crashed and recovered. After that, gpu clocks return to idle state and video engine load drops back to 0. This is reproduceable 100%. However, if I loaded steam while gpu-z is not running, nothing happened...all is fine. Even launching steam in offline mode while gpu z was running, it runs fine. I'm kinda scared not to run gpu-z or steam...

Right now, I'm currently running the latest gpu drivers without geforce experienced and the bug was still there.  To be honest, I'm afraid if its my gpu hardware that did it or not...thats why I kinda post this here. Anybody got that weird glitch?

My specs
Asrock z97x fatality killer
i7 4790k
Nvidia gtx 970 evga sc (blower version)
32gb gskill ripjaws 1600mhz
Samsung evo 850 500gb
Toshiba 1tb HDD
Corsair RM750 750watt
CoolerMaster 922 haf case
Windows 10 home (fall creators update)

[wuddih]

is "perform scaling on" set to display?
https://i.imgur.com/BItpMwr.png
and the override checkbox also disabled?

if not, do so and try to reproduce the issue.

[♥ RyoL ♥]

wuddih eredeti hozzászólása:

is "perform scaling on" set to display?
https://i.imgur.com/BItpMwr.png
and the override checkbox also disabled?

if not, do so and try to reproduce the issue.

I just did what you suggest, but that did not help since the bug is still there when I reproduced it. :/

[wuddih]

windows task manager, processes tab, enable columns for gpu and gpu module.

check what processes hog a larger amount of any resource (cpu/gpu/ram/storage) when you reproduce this.

if it is just one process (and not desktop window manager) then this is most likely completely caused by that process/application.

[♥ RyoL ♥]

wuddih eredeti hozzászólása:

windows task manager, processes tab, enable columns for gpu and gpu module.

check what processes hog a larger amount of any resource (cpu/gpu/ram/storage) when you reproduce this.

if it is just one process (and not desktop window manager) then this is most likely completely caused by that process/application.

Well, I checked task manager and when the bug happened, client server run-time and desktop window manager is at 2% gpu usage. Like there is little to no gpu core load, only the clocks and 100% video engine load. If I load a video on potplayer, either client server runtime or desktop window manager spiked about 100% on gpu and then the drivers crashed.

[Homosapien]

I've been experiencing the same thing, on and off, since early March of this year.
Opened a support case with Steam support, but it didn't lead anywhere, so please post if you unearth any further details.

[angrym3dia]

I have has this problem since i started using gpu-z about a month or 2 ago and it can be temporarily fixed by starting both or if both are already started and then when you see the vid engine load at 100% just minimize everything. Not quit btw amd while its minimized restart your display driver through the divice manager. After done if you use 2 monitors you may have to put back those windows where you want them because of a few issues when switching video output. Now that you have restarted your display driver you shouldnt have 100% usage and you can navagate both programs fine. It is however a temp fix and will have to be done when ever the load is stuck at 100%.

[♥ RyoL ♥]

@ngryN3rd! 404 eredeti hozzászólása:

I have has this problem since i started using gpu-z about a month or 2 ago and it can be temporarily fixed by starting both or if both are already started and then when you see the vid engine load at 100% just minimize everything. Not quit btw amd while its minimized restart your display driver through the divice manager. After done if you use 2 monitors you may have to put back those windows where you want them because of a few issues when switching video output. Now that you have restarted your display driver you shouldnt have 100% usage and you can navagate both programs fine. It is however a temp fix and will have to be done when ever the load is stuck at 100%.

That seems like a good temporary fix. I'll try to use that fix if I ever ran into 100% video engine load again if I started steam while gpu-z is in the background. I should note that I only use one monitor via Sceptre 60hz 1080p monitor.

[aIpGaming]

same problem man, gtx 750 ti

[Homosapien]

Still happening as of GPU-Z version number 2.11.0 and Steam client version 4.70.72.78 (build sept 8th 2018).

[aIpGaming]

no ♥♥♥♥ eredeti hozzászólása:

Still happening as of GPU-Z version number 2.11.0 and Steam client version 4.70.72.78 (build sept 8th 2018).

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/gpu-z-causes-some-freezes-while-steam-is-launched.245183/

[♥ RyoL ♥]

I check on this thread that alpGaming linked and it turns out, GPU-Z is the main culprit all along. Not only that Nvidia GPU's are involved in this, but AMD, ATI (older cards), and Intel igpus as well. :O I'll check out the test version when I get a chance. So far, I'm glad that the makers of GPU-Z were investigating this. :D

[aIpGaming]

♥ RyoL ♥ eredeti hozzászólása:

I check on this thread that alpGaming linked and it turns out, GPU-Z is the main culprit all along. Not only that Nvidia GPU's are involved in this, but AMD, ATI (older cards), and Intel igpus as well. :O I'll check out the test version when I get a chance. So far, I'm glad that the makers of GPU-Z were investigating this. :D

but find it a users, not developers
what's the problem in gpu-z

[Homosapien]

Fixed as of GPU-Z 2.14.0?
I have not been able to reproduce this issue since that release, although I'm not keeping track of the Steam client version numbers.

[Lofrent]

hi

[Lofrent]

hi