Question Why is my GPU usage 0%?

[Rednash]

I am on my laptop, and it is a asus tuf fx505dy one (you can look up the specs). I have researched a lot and I can't find an answer. I have downloaded Armoury Crate and Radeon Software with the latest version of the drivers. I have two gpus. However when I checked at Armoury Crate and the Radeon Software Settings it shows that my GPU stats is at about 200Mhz Frequency and 0% usage. My cpu sometimes reach 90% when im gaming and just 15% when im not. I noticed this because I have a friend with a similar laptop but we are at about 50 fps difference, and we compared the in-game settings which is also the same. Why is my gpu at 0% usage? And why do we have such big fps differences with similar laptops?

 

[cdrkf]

I am on my laptop, and it is a asus tuf fx505dy one (you can look up the specs). I have researched a lot and I can't find an answer. I have downloaded Armoury Crate and Radeon Software with the latest version of the drivers. I have two gpus. However when I checked at Armoury Crate and the Radeon Software Settings it shows that my GPU stats is at about 200Mhz Frequency and 0% usage. My cpu sometimes reach 90% when im gaming and just 15% when im not. I noticed this because I have a friend with a similar laptop but we are at about 50 fps difference, and we compared the in-game settings which is also the same. Why is my gpu at 0% usage? And why do we have such big fps differences with similar laptops?

It sounds like you are running the game on the integrated GPU, not the dedicated card. You will need to go into the settings and set the game to use the dedicated gpu for best performance.

The game will run ok (ish) on the integrated gpu as that laptop is based on a Ryzen APU which has very strong integrated graphics (still slow compared to the dedicated card but can run most games on low settings OK).

I'm not sure how AMD's software handles the dual GPU's, however on Intel / nVidia laptops you can right click on the game icon and then use the option "run with graphics processor -> high performance" to force the game to use the discrete card.

 

[Csylos]

@Rednash I've been having this issue myself with my Asus TUF FX505DV. In order to tell a game to use the dedicated GPU, you have to right-click on your desktop, go to Display Settings, scroll to the bottom and click Graphics Settings, click Browse under Desktop Apps, find your game's executable and click OK. The, set it to use High Performance. Here's a caveat, though. With the RTX 2060 (and I think the DY uses the 1660Ti, can't remember, though), Vulkan can never be used and I haven't found a way around this. I've been trying to play Second Extinction and I can't because having the RTX 2060 go through the iGPU to get to the display is causing issues. Loading up GPU-Z, it says that the RTX 2060 isn't capable of doing Vulkan, but disabling the iGPU and loading up GPU-Z, it says the RTX 2060 can use Vulkan. Downfall is, when disabling the iGPU, it doesn't actually force the display to use the dedicated graphics card. Instead, it defaults to some terrible Windows drivers and loading any Vulkan app causes some SEVERE FPS drops. Still trying to figure this out. Hope I helped, though.