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Toast 17 Jul @ 9:57pm

4090 Idling At Thirty%?

For context, I got this pc strictly for gaming. Only websites it’s been on are Steam, Nexus Mods, and Nvidia for the drivers.

Recently I rolled back my drivers for, Expedition 33. GPU would sit at roughly 5% then shoot up to 60 when running the game, which is pretty standard for most of my games.

Today however, I downloaded Lies Of P. System was still handling. Sitting at 70% temps below 60. Shut the computer off which I do at the end of every session.

Came back later to turn it on, first it booted up but no display, so I restarted it, display popped on. However the GPU is now idling at 30%.

Not really sure what’s causing this. Google is saying it’s anything from crypto mining malware to outdated drivers.

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

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smokerob79 23 hours ago

pull up task manager and see what is running.....when you find the load google search whats running it....

ChickenBalls 23 hours ago

hmm its almost like you got some kind of crypto malware running lol

Andrius227 22 hours ago

Maybe your power settings got changed somehow.

High performance setting results in gpu idling at high clock speed and low gpu usage.

Optimal power settings (it may be called something else) results in gpu dropping clock speed when idle/low load, which means gpu usage goes up.

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Bad 💀 Motha 18 hours ago

Also whenever you exit a game. It's a good idea to allow the hardware to cool back down a bit, which your cooling fans will do naturally. So as to avoid shutting off the PC while temps on certain hardware is still rather high; such as above 50-60 *C range

_I_ 17 hours ago

check with gpuz
if its 30% of idle clocks, thats fine
windows desktop uses hardware acceleration, if the browser is open or still running in the background that can be using the gpu

in browser/chrome settings, set it to actually stop when you exit it
chrome://settings/system
untick continue running in background

and steams browser/webhelper uses gpu acceleration also
steam -> settings -> interface
untick gpu and hardware acceleration

and set windows to actually shutdown not sleep/hibernate when you pick shutdown
winkey + r -> run as admin -> powercfg -h off

Last edited by _I_; 17 hours ago

Toast 17 hours ago

Originally posted by smokerob79:
pull up task manager and see what is running.....when you find the load google search whats running it....

This was the first thing I did. All the processes that were going were all at .2% or lower.

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:
Also whenever you exit a game. It's a good idea to allow the hardware to cool back down a bit, which your cooling fans will do naturally. So as to avoid shutting off the PC while temps on certain hardware is still rather high; such as above 50-60 *C range

I did not know that, thank you

Originally posted by Andrius227:
Maybe your power settings got changed somehow.

High performance setting results in gpu idling at high clock speed and low gpu usage.

Optimal power settings (it may be called something else) results in gpu dropping clock speed when idle/low load, which means gpu usage goes up.

I’ll see if there’s a way to check, thanks.

Originally posted by _I_:
check with gpuz
if its 30% of idle clocks, thats fine
windows desktop uses hardware acceleration, if the browser is open or still running in the background that can be using the gpu

in browser/chrome settings, set it to actually stop when you exit it
chrome://settings/system
untick continue running in background

and steams browser/webhelper uses gpu acceleration also
steam -> settings -> interface
untick gpu and hardware acceleration

and set windows to actually shutdown not sleep/hibernate when you pick shutdown
winkey + r -> run as admin -> powercfg -h off

I use gtx opera or whatever it’s called, I’ll check to see if it’s running next time I start it up.

Last edited by Toast; 17 hours ago

Toast 15 hours ago

Update. So apparently the 3d section on my task bar is pulling the 30% while idle. Not sure what’s causing it

Set-115689 11 hours ago

Restart (not shut down pc). Then see what idle is. Ideally should be around 0-1%. See whats in task manager start up tab.

Press windows key and type power plan. Click on change advanced power settings in power menu. Choose anything other than the current plan and change it. Then do whatever plan you want. Should set it back to default settings.

Last edited by Set-115689; 11 hours ago

C1REX 10 hours ago

Originally posted by Toast:
Update. So apparently the 3d section on my task bar is pulling the 30% while idle. Not sure what’s causing it

Does the power consumption matches the utilisation? Does it pull 150-180W?

Did you by any chance set desktop recording on? Like Nvidia Shadowplay or something?

Toast 10 hours ago

Originally posted by C1REX:
Originally posted by Toast:
Update. So apparently the 3d section on my task bar is pulling the 30% while idle. Not sure what’s causing it
Does the power consumption matches the utilisation? Does it pull 150-180W?

Did you by any chance set desktop recording on? Like Nvidia Shadowplay or something?

The only thing running in services for nvidia is a container service for root features. Theres another SDK frame view service that’s not running

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Toast 9 hours ago

Originally posted by Set-115689:
Restart (not shut down pc). Then see what idle is. Ideally should be around 0-1%. See whats in task manager start up tab.

Press windows key and type power plan. Click on change advanced power settings in power menu. Choose anything other than the current plan and change it. Then do whatever plan you want. Should set it back to default settings.

This method didn’t do anything. The majority is coming from the 3d tab, with a small percentage coming from video decode. I made OBS isn’t running, and I’m ninety percent sure I don’t have nvidia shadow play on my system. Tried looking I couldn’t find it

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emoticorpse 9 hours ago

What are you looking at that's telling you it's at 30% while manager shows nothing like that?

Or task manager says 30% cpu utilization but won't show you what? pictures might help of what you're looking at.

Last edited by emoticorpse; 9 hours ago

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Set-115689 9 hours ago

Open task manager. Click on name area in the first tab (processes?) and select gpu. It should add gpu to the list/columns. Can sort usages from there.

Last edited by Set-115689; 9 hours ago

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Toast 8 hours ago

Originally posted by Set-115689:
Open task manager. Click on name area in the first tab (processes?) and select gpu. It should add gpu to the list/columns. Can sort usages from there.

That helps a lot! Thank you. So desktop windows manager is using twenty% for some reason, the other 10 is coming from Hyte nexus. It runs my y70 screen

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