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NightmareXIV / Mini

A simple button to minimize your game into taskbar from borderless window mode
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Increased GPU usage when minimizing game? #1

Closed Maxunit closed 2 years ago

Maxunit commented 2 years ago

Sorry Eternita-S for the next "bug report" >_>

I am going through a lot of plugins, testing around and whatnot and just tried out "Mini" and observed my Hardware Temperatures and usage with HWMonitor.

I noticed, that my GPU (a GeForce GTX 1070) is currently at 75% GPU usage when the game is maximized in Borderless Windowed mode (Dual Monitor Setup) and as soon as I minimize it with Mini, the GPU usage instantly spikes to 99 - 100%.

Is this normal?

Limiana commented 2 years ago

Can you check if your gpu frequency differs between game being open and minimized? I'd recommend gpu-z: https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-gpu-z/ Most programs report gpu usage frequency relative. While game is minimized, rendering gpu load should decrease and your gpu may drop some frequency to save power and cool itself down while not experiencing heavier loads: image_459 But I'm afraid even if somehow game in minimized state consumes more gpu processing power than in normal state, there's not much I can do from plugin as it just calls same windows function as normal minimize button that would be available would you run game in windowed mode. I'd also suggest enabling "Limit frame rate when client is inactive" option in display settings in game, that should limit fps of minimized game to about 15, and if that doesn't works still and if you are using msi afterburner with rtss, I can give you instructions how to make rtss slow down the game while it's inactive

Maxunit commented 2 years ago

Aaah okay.

I just downloaded GPU-Z and compared.

Maximized: GPU Clock: 1860 Mhz GPU Load: ~25%

Minimized: GPU Clock: 1518.5 Mhz GPU Load: 20 - 25%

Seems like HWMonitor/HWInfo reads it wrong. Then this topic can be closed. It was no issue with Mini, but with HWInfo/HWMonitor outputting wrong numbers.