LOW GPU USAGE ON STEAM GAMES

[PsychoGenesis]

On non steam games, I get 99% gpu usage. On steam games, I get 40-50%. I have an r9 3900x and a 2080s with the msi x570 Unify Mobo and 32gb of 3600 ram. My temps are great. PLEASE HELP

[Muppet among Puppets]

Do the games run fine?

[PsychoGenesis]

no. I can't even maintain 60 fps on the games I want to play on my $2500pc because something is wrong with steam

[Muppet among Puppets]

What games?
You have two grafic cards, one ati and one nvidia?

Edit: R9 means ryzen. I see.

The games run better on my old pc. So maybe something with your pc is not all up. Drivers maybe? Cables?

[PsychoGenesis]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

What games?
You have two grafic cards, one ati and one nvidia?

Edit: R9 means ryzen. I see.

The games run better on my old pc. So maybe something with your pc is not all up. Drivers maybe? Cables?

But it is only steam.. If i play a game on origin for example. I get 99% gpu usage. steam games, 40-50%.. that doesn't seem like a hardware problem. Drivers are up to date.. not really sure where to go from here.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Give an example of 2 games.
Maybe someone has some and could test with similar hardware.

Did not notice differences.

[PsychoGenesis]

Insurgency Sandstorm, Squad, Dark Souls 3, Scum, Warhammer 2, For Honor, Destiny 2, Hunt Showdown.... All of my steam games.. Non steam games run GREAT though

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Give an example of 2 games.
Maybe someone has some and could test with similar hardware.

Did not notice differences.

Insurgency Sandstorm, Squad, Dark Souls 3, Scum, Warhammer 2, For Honor, Destiny 2, Hunt Showdown.... All of my steam games.. Non steam games run GREAT though

[Muppet among Puppets]

Maybe the antivirus?
The only game i played on steam from those was hunt. On a way "older" pc than yours. It was playable with ssd. With win defender.

[PsychoGenesis]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Maybe the antivirus?
The only game i played on steam from those was hunt. On a way "older" pc than yours. It was playable with ssd. With win defender.

Already tried turning off antivirus.. no progress

[Muppet among Puppets]

For now i recommend to write in the forum of an affected game and ask what could cause that.

Do you own an ea game on steam? Or a game on steam and uplay? For honor was free once. And origin has first month subscription for 1 $ atm.

That way you could literally test if the steam game runs worse than ubo or ea.

[PsychoGenesis]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

For now i recommend to write in the forum of an affected game and ask what could cause that.

Do you own an ea game on steam? Or a game on steam and uplay? For honor was free once. And origin has first month subscription for 1 $ atm.

That way you could literally test if the steam game runs worse than ubo or ea.

It is literally 10000% a problem with steam.. EVERY steam games runs like ♥♥♥♥.. EVERY non steam game runs great.

[Muppet among Puppets]

That is the hardest problem to get through. Thats why i tried to find a way for you to make sure its that.
You might need to discuss that with support.

[Iceira]

Well try some test then, lets see if we can fool steam.

Exit steam. Rename steam folder to steam.old

reinstall steam at same place, DL and Reinstall one of them
this is to figure out if this is steam or driver issue.

and you might need DDU to fix AMD and reinstal AMD drivers

Nvidia use Custom install and use checkbox then its there to make a clear install.

try avoid a cloud game and mod content from workshop, so they dont add or restore it.

ps.
sure we can keep steam.exe and steamapp folder and delete all other files and folder.
reclick steam.exe ( or use reset download cache ) or flush steam command.

but if you do that and get it fixed, then i and other will not know. if this is driver issue or steam or your steam that install that doing this. or is it driver issue.

and say so if you dont understand , i bet Muppet among Puppets know and might understand why not test with a fake new steam install to see where issue is or coming from.

point is you have good case then you say all games in steam. that look like a steam issue, but to ID it is hard.

and you can go back to steam.old ( and not lost anything )


ps.
and ofc pc is update from Brand pc support page or custom build pc then its brand mortherboard page

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by UncleSamsDevil:

not really sure where to go from here.

Settings in the GPU control panels. Make sure they're correctly set. I've noticed with Steam before that whatever settings Steam gets in the GPU control panels, often also are reflected on the games run through Steam.

[✞ 𝕿𝖎𝖟𝖔𝖓𝖆 ✞]

I have the same problem

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

If you turn off Steam overlay via settings, then launch the game, does anything change?

Have you recently done a driver update when the issue occur?

Do you have anything running in the background when playing Steam games, like what are these things running in the background that not part of Windows?

Do you use any overclocking profiles, and such with any 3rd party software?