100% GPU Usage Spikes on Windows 10

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100% GPU Usage Spikes on Windows 10

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Hi there,
around a week ago I decided to reinstall windows on my laptop (Acer Nitro 5 AN515-55, NVIDIA 1660ti GPU). I reinstalled all my drivers from the website of my manufacturer and all was well. I started noticing large lag spikes that lasted around 0.5 of a second to 1.5 seconds when playing Rocket League and I found it was due to my GPU usage spiking to 100% in high intensity moments and my usage was already high so I assumed it just ran out of resources. I capped my FPS and the issue was fixed for while (a few days), however, since yesterday and maybe the day before, my GPU usage has been spiking again and more randomly this time and I believe in all games. I tried installing a different driver but it didn't work and I'm not sure what to do. Can anyone help me out? Please ask any questions if necessary and I'll answer them to my best ability.

Thanks in advance,

Georgie

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Hi,

I am R. Cord, Independent Advisor.

I hope you are doing well.

understand your frustrations, try to play some game with 3 fps, it's very impossible.

What I can recommend in this scenario?

if you installed the system recently, recommend you check and perform all updates.

Windows Update:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/upd...

It is possible that your graphic card driver is not working as well.

Try to uninstall your Graphic card using a third party called Display Driver Uninstaller (DDU), I don't like to recommend third partys but in this scenario, DDU helps to uninstall graphics cards from NVIDIA for complete, reboot system after do that, go to Nvidia site, and try automatic driver update:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/drivers/

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Try to use in others resolutions if the fps stop drops,

Regarding, GPU working as 100% all time could be an issue in your graphic card.

Let me know if helps

Regards,

R. Cord

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Anonymous

Thank you so much, have a great day!

Best regards,

Georgie

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Hi Georgie13,

Yes, possible the driver was corrupted, so I am glad to hear that you can solve the issue, We are here whenever you need us, we are here for you!

With best regards,

R. Cord

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Answer 4

Hi there,

I used DDU to reinstall the earlier version of the graphics driver my manufacturer provided and it seems to have worked. This is strange as the issue started on this driver but now it is fixed? Maybe the install was corrupt. It has worked though so that's the main thing, thanks so much for your help.

Thank you,

Georgie

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