My desktop is Ryzen 3700x + 3070Ti + 64GB RAM + 1TB 980Pro PCIe4.0 NVMe + 2K 1440P. I am using the default graphic setting. The nVidia latest driver has been installed.
But my graphic card is 100% workload all the time, no matter i were in the dungeon, wild or town. (I think in the town is the worst, always laggy at the beginning), CPU workload is OK. ( < 40%)
My desktop is near to my foot, and I am feeling I am sitting in front of heater. Could anyone tell me how to adjust graphic setting to reduce GPU workload? Much appreciated!
One more thing, I can’t believe the loading time e.g. dungeon, town can be so long and cause laggy, I think my SSD is one of the fastest one in the current market.
Enabling DLSS might help. You can set it to performance. This will render the resolution at 50% and upscale it to your native resolution. You wouldn’t want to set the resolution to 1080 if you have a 1440p monitor, but enabling DLSS works around this.
If you’re on ultra textures, you can reduce them to high, and if high, medium.
The stuttering in town/ entering a new area (if not rubberbanding lag and you see FPS actually drop in town, use control + R to toggle this) is generally related to textures being too high for your GPU to handle.
There’s nothing wrong with running at max GPU utilization though, other than it’ll heat up your room a lot ^^. They’re built to do that, but if you’re experiencing performance issues AND you’re at max, you’re settings are too high for your card
You should want your GPU to be at max utilization unless you don’t need the extra FPS or something due to refresh rate limitations of your monitor and you’re already playing at your display’s native resolution.
Check your resolution in game and make sure it matches your desktop resolution. I was getting high GPU usage (RTX 4080) around 90% because the game resolution was in 4k but I have a 1440 monitor. This dropped my GPU usage significantly.
Could be, just something to check. In that case, drop the textures and see if you don’t have the stuttering issue you were talking about. Medium Vs High vs Ultra are massive performance jumps
Can also fiddle more with DLSS. I think they have ultra performance. IDK not online and I don’t use it but I know there are multiple options between performance and quality
Riva Tuner can globally cap your FPS so you don’t have to fuddle with game / app settings.
It also has the lowest total response time with V-Sync off which doesn’t apply to this game. It’s kinda weird that an option when running a game in windowed mode automatically makes windows apply V-Sync.
I might sound crazy but the game has gone up in GPU usage after patching. At launch I was at 55% usage, then 70% and now it won’t go under 80%. 3440x1440p 100hz. 12GB VRAM usage of 24GB.
Easiest Solution: Install MSI Afterburner (works with almost all nVidia cards), then set the GPU max temp to 80c. Set fan speed to manual mode 60% max rpm all the time. With D4 running my RTX2080ti kept revving up like a hair dryer, but after aplying MSI Afterburner it stays quiet all the time, even under extreme load with 165fps cap at 2k display mode. Just remember to run this before launching D4 unless you set it to auto-start with Windows.
EDIT: I just got home and check my Afterburner settings – Max power is set to 85%, but max temp is set to 80c. This setting under-volts my GPU by 15% (it’s an EVGA RTX-2080Ti Ultra endition, OC’d by default), thereby making sure that it is safeguarded from catastrophic meltdown. It still runs very quiet despite D4 pushing 165fps to match up with GSync @ 2k resolution.
There is no need to set background FPS that high to 30.
I set it to the lowest at 1 FPS for background.
Every half an hour, for a few minutes, I press the Windows key to take focus off of the game window so the game is in background, and the 1 FPS background setting helps the GPU to cool down during that time.
This can significantly help with overheating problem.
Cap framerate at 60 fps.
I’m on rtx 3080, I capped it at 80fps, for me it’s the sweet spot between performances and stopping the videocard from turning my room into an oven.
You’re running the risk of cooking your GPU if you have fans set at 60% max at all times. They’re designed to ramp up in response to temperature changes.
The onboard GPU bios will still kick in and ramp up the fans if the GPU gets too hot, but with the GPU temp capped at 85c, its max temp will be no where near max limits. My CPU cooler has the GPU temp also displayed, and it has never exceeded 72c with the previously mentioned settings.
RTX2080it’s and RTX3080ti’s starts to throttle around 85-90c.