Since last night my GPU usage has been 95% plus and it is causing massive lag issues. I have 165 hours into the game and it has been fine up until last night. I tried updating drivers. I am running the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 TI. Any reason my GPU would be running at over 95%?
Did you recently start playing again or have you been playing the current patch for a while? We havenât updated the game recently. Have you gotten to a part of the game you havenât been to before?
If thereâs a problem with a specific area of the game that would explain it, but otherwise it sounds more like an issue with hardware or other software, unfortunately.
Thank you for the response. I have almost 200 hours into the game, most of which have been in the past 3 weeks or so. It played perfectly fine up until this past week, where the GPU is running at a constant 70%+ and spikes into near 100% at times.
To compare, when running Path of Exile, my GPU usage runs at around 5%. Maybe it is my computer, but it only happens when specifically running Last Epoch, and only since last Sunday. It seems like something in Last Epoch is causing this, though I donât know what could have changed.
I have tried lowering the graphics settings, removing damage numbers, lowering shadows, but it has no effect at all. Any recommendations to try? Any other information I can provide that may help let me know. Not sure what is causing this. Thanks again for the help.
Maybe I can help pointing that out. Like Iâve mentioned in a seperate thread, Last Epochâs exclusivefullscreen mode is no real fullscreen in fact. Because you can ALT+TAB out the game, or press the windows-key without minimizing Last Epoch, is evidence of just âwindowed fullscreenâ. So the exclusive fullscreen simply doesnât work.
And because of that, your GPU (and MINE as well) have a much higher power consumption, thatâs because it always renders the desktop, too in background.
In windowed fullscreen the game is only âlayeredâ over the desktop (again: game wonât minimize by ALTtabbing out).
In fact of this, you can change whatever you want in the graphics settings, you canât avoid game running in only windowed-fullscreen and versions of that.
TLDR: Last Epoch needs a fix for the exclusive fullscreen mode to work properly / as intended. This would have a huge impact of GPU power consumption and more FPS.
Thanks for the information. That is extremely helpful, even if it is not fixable at the moment. The game is in Beta so I understand there will likely need to be fixes. Hopefully this can be addressed in one of the future updates. If there are any further recommendations that may help alleviate the issue, I am open to suggestions. Thanks again!
Yeah, hope theyâll address this issue as soon as possible, because only when they fix this first, we can give further feedback of whatâs causing FPS issues for real furthermore.
I lowered my 4k resolution to 1440p and set shadows to low, for having at least shadows ^^ ⌠and lowered some other settingsâŚ
My advice: use the resolution youâre happy with (at least Full HD 1920x1080 or äquivalent) and after that try lower the critical options.
Also if youâre not using FreeSync/G Sync, then at least turn on V Sync, so the frames get limited to optimal 60 (donât use half V Sync cause it lowers your FPS drastically).
In the advanced graphics settings I set my:
âambient occlusionâ to âvery lowâ, others to âlowâ, except âterrain qualityâ to âvery highâ (because this is just limited by your VRAM of your GPU).
In normal graphics setings I used âTAAâ antialiasing and have âlowâ shadows.
Maybe I could help a bit, until the fullscreen getting fixed (hopefully soon).
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