[SOLVED] Can I Increase My GPU Usage?

[Soloontop]

So whilst gaming I usually get 80-100% GPU usage and it has worked perfectly fine. A couple days ago I realized that my GPU usage whilst gaming was around 45-55% and it was lowering my fps and causing me stutters in game. Usually it would be anywhere from 90-100%

I tried going back to a restore point from a couple weeks ago and it didn't change anything. I also factory reset my pc to see if that fixed the problem and it still didn't

Also not to mention this literally happened overnight. One night it was fine, the next morning this happened. I did not make any recent driver/window updates and not really any installs that would affect this ( games/videos )

System Specs:
GT 1030
AMD FX 8350 Eight Core
16gb ddr4

And I play fortnite on 1920x1080 with about both 75c cpu and gpu temps while gaming how can I increase my gpu usage?

That's because ypu are reading it backwards. Usage is Not how much of the gpu is used but how much the gpu uses to get the job done.

It's like knocking on a door, you'll use your wrist muscles, forearm, hand curled in a fist, all those muscles and tendons contracting to get the knock. But. You do not use every ounce of strength you possess to do the knocking, even though that uses the same things as a light knock.

You didn't need to, to accomplish the knock. Gpu is the same way, if it doesn't need the full range of bandwidth, vram, power, etc etc to put every frame received from the cpu onscreen, it won't, and you see 50ish% usage. It's only when the gpu is severely taxed to its limits that you'll see 90-100% usage.

Meaning the cpu is not sending the frames to the gpu, not that the gpu is acting slow or not usage enough or 'lowering the fps'.

You could take the settings you have now, apply a 4k digital render (DSR) and watch usage go through the roof as the gpu now has 4x the amount of pixels to deal with, which will tax resource usage to its limits. So if your settings have not changed, no updates to optimize etc, then something has affected the cpus ability to send fps to the gpu.

That could be anything from ram speed drop, ram maxed out by a memory bleed and pagefiling, hdd/ssd full, background tasks like windows updates or Antivirus using cores, cpu loosing speed, dropped pbo/OC etc.

Thanks for this info, will look into it

 

[Obiwancanabi]

could it be thermal throttling? maybe the fans or fins are blocked, pull it out and give it a look over, it will give it a re seat too, maybe a pin on your pcie is bad could have failed or not giving a good connection and its only getting half power, idk man im grasping

 

[Crosslhs82x2]

Agree with Obiwan on the Thermal throttling.
Start with a good cleaning inside, removing the cpu cooler to clean off the cpu and heat sink and reapplying the Thermal paste.