Is there any effort by developers to reduce the GPU load for secondary screens. Currently it seems as if going to a secondary screen (i.e. vendor, main chest, etc.) the game loads another complete instance of the game resulting in a graphics trying to run two copies of the game at the same time. If this is the case could the secondary screen be limited to 30-60 fps, or some other type of limitation?
This is a known issue.
The best thing you can do is limit the amount of workload by lowering the FPS cap, lowering settings to High, turn off Nvidia Reflex (if you have Nvidia), disable Peripheral Lighting (also known as Chroma Effects), and watching your video card temperatures, especially VRAM temps (if they can be monitored) or the Hotspot temp if you can’t see the VRAM temp.
In some cases, you might need to setup MSI Afterburner and create a custom fan curve to more aggressively cool your card.
This will not fix the problem, but will lower the stress on the card.
Any vendor you visit will increase the load, but opening the world map will lower it significantly. So, if you are going to step away from the computer and leave the game running, open the world map, it will actually cool down your card and lower power usage.
This is one part of a larger issue with how the game is optimized, which hopefully they will address and make better soon.
Realized early on how to keep the GPU load down. Lowered my normal load to 35%. When opening a secondary screen it still can climb to 70%+. I’m running an RTX 3080 with a frame limit of 100fps.
And I’m running an RTX3070Ti with a frame cap of 150FPS. I’m assuming you are running a higher screen resolution like 1440p or 4k however. I’m running a G-Sync HD monitor.
But I also see these increases and have been exploring these problems for weeks now.
But they don’t cause me any issues, and I have got the system setup to not run too hot or stress too much.
3080s are somewhat notorious for having weird issues too, which doesn’t help. As long as you are not overheating, or having issues, you should be fine for now.
Granted, there needs some optimization, as I explained before.
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