Hey everyone. I bought a used GPU in the first computer I've ever built. I noticed it immediately but thought it would go away as drivers were installed and such, but that was not the case. When the computer is inactive for roughly two minutes, the GPU rams to 100% utility. It will not do this with any monitor open so I suspect it's a hack.
This can be with nothing open, totally idle. If I move the mouse or hit something on the xbox controller (with nothing open), the GPU drops immediately back to 0%. See this video:
View: https://youtu.be/r50J8pZ5aDs
If I'm playing a game and it's in a cut scene (and therefore I don't give input to the computer), it'll crash, unless I put it in windowed mode with HWMonitor open (I thought the issue was thermal).
If I'm in a game, not in a cutscene, but not giving input, the frames will suddenly drop drastically. The second I give input of any kind the smooth frame rate restores itself.
Also odd, but playing NFS Hot Pursuit from 2011 leads to 100% utilization, but NFS The Run is about 30% utilization. I suspect NFS HP utilization is so low that whatever this issue is runs in the background while I play that game.
Then I also made the computer a hackintosh. On MacOS, according to the utilization dots on the GPU, it will do short 1/10 (ish) of a second shots to 100%. I see that as the GPU wants to go to 100% but supporting software isn't there on MacOS.
I asked the seller but he's been unresponsive and I suspect he knows what is going on. Are there BIOS hacks that can cause this? I feel like the GPU looks for me to be idle to mine, but that's all just a hunch. It'll do it without internet.
any help would be appreciated.
This can be with nothing open, totally idle. If I move the mouse or hit something on the xbox controller (with nothing open), the GPU drops immediately back to 0%. See this video:
If I'm playing a game and it's in a cut scene (and therefore I don't give input to the computer), it'll crash, unless I put it in windowed mode with HWMonitor open (I thought the issue was thermal).
If I'm in a game, not in a cutscene, but not giving input, the frames will suddenly drop drastically. The second I give input of any kind the smooth frame rate restores itself.
Also odd, but playing NFS Hot Pursuit from 2011 leads to 100% utilization, but NFS The Run is about 30% utilization. I suspect NFS HP utilization is so low that whatever this issue is runs in the background while I play that game.
Then I also made the computer a hackintosh. On MacOS, according to the utilization dots on the GPU, it will do short 1/10 (ish) of a second shots to 100%. I see that as the GPU wants to go to 100% but supporting software isn't there on MacOS.
I asked the seller but he's been unresponsive and I suspect he knows what is going on. Are there BIOS hacks that can cause this? I feel like the GPU looks for me to be idle to mine, but that's all just a hunch. It'll do it without internet.
any help would be appreciated.
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