Windows 8.1 excessive gpu usage

[lavaheadache]

Every now and then I go into the task manager and kill Reader, Stock, Flash, and other misc. apps until I get my gpu clocks to drop. This isn't a new thing either. Apps don't actually close when you close them. Windows tends to just let them linger in the background. I assume this is so I can reopen them quickly, but I hate it. Often I'll catch my Z idling at 62c cause the reader app that I opened a document with 10 minutes prior has the card clocked up.

What is the best way to keep this from happening? Smart ass answers not needed.

I wasn't sure if I should post this in the OS section or VC&G so I picked the section I like the best. I love you guys!

 

[NTMBK]

Pfft, you clearly just need a more powerful GPU.

/smartass

 

[Grooveriding]

Have you tried disabling gpu acceleration in the flash player ? Since the past two nvidia driver releases it's been buggy for me when I have more than one flash video active and crashes my browser.

Open a youtube video, right click and choose settings to open flash options, then disable gpu acceleration under the global options.

 

[Hauk]

Have you tried disabling gpu acceleration in the flash player ? Since the past two nvidia driver releases it's been buggy for me when I have more than one flash video active and crashes my browser.

Open a youtube video, right click and choose settings to open flash options, then disable gpu acceleration under the global options.

nice tip thanks!

 

[3DVagabond]

Every now and then I go into the task manager and kill Reader, Stock, Flash, and other misc. apps until I get my gpu clocks to drop. This isn't a new thing either. Apps don't actually close when you close them. Windows tends to just let them linger in the background. I assume this is so I can reopen them quickly, but I hate it. Often I'll catch my Z idling at 62c cause the reader app that I opened a document with 10 minutes prior has the card clocked up.

What is the best way to keep this from happening? Smart ass answers not needed.

Pfft, you clearly just need a more powerful GPU.

/smartass

You're good. I couldn't even think of a smartass answer.

I wasn't sure if I should post this in the OS section or VC&G so I picked the section I like the best. I love you guys!

I feel pretty.

 

[Cerb]

What is the best way to keep this from happening? Smart ass answers not needed.

What you're doing, as far as I know. If you can disable GPU accel, fine, but that just puts more load on the CPU, so it's not always a great fix.

This is an issue that has been going for several years, now, well before Windows 8 (8 just added more junk to the pile).

 

[amenx]

The apps that linger in the background are the built-in windows apps. I dont like that either so have resorted to using alternatives. Reader > Foxit PDF, etc. Flash not an issue with me, but I have HW accel disabled.

 

[lavaheadache]

it really is mostly Reader. I'll open up a document, then 4 hours later I'll go back to my computer and notice that it is throwing out quite a bit of heat and see that my card is running full tilt cause Reader is lingering as a background process. As soon as I "end task" it clocks drop to low power state clocks. I suppose it is more of a first world problem thing since I doubt MS invest too much time thinking about what their OS does to power hungry cards.

 

[SlickR12345]

Download windows 7?

 

[escrow4]

Use PDF Exchange Viewer - native x64, multithreaded (yes a .pdf viewer is multithreaded) and free:

http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

As for Flash, Chrome?

 

[Cerb]

it really is mostly Reader. I'll open up a document, then 4 hours later I'll go back to my computer and notice that it is throwing out quite a bit of heat and see that my card is running full tilt cause Reader is lingering as a background process. As soon as I "end task" it clocks drop to low power state clocks. I suppose it is more of a first world problem thing since I doubt MS invest too much time thinking about what their OS does to power hungry cards.

If that one program is doing most of it, use something better. Do you mean the annoying as all f*** Metro app that tries to open PDFs by default, with the dingy orange icon? If so, nuke it and be done. Flash is annoying, and can do the same thing, but at least it is truly useful, and there aren't good alternatives.

 

[lavaheadache]

If that one program is doing most of it, use something better. Do you mean the annoying as all f*** Metro app that tries to open PDFs by default, with the dingy orange icon? If so, nuke it and be done. Flash is annoying, and can do the same thing, but at least it is truly useful, and there aren't good alternatives.

yes, that is the app. It runs my card at full tilt when active.

 

[UaVaj]

this topic should be in the window8 is broken forum.

 

[ViRGE]

Since you're an Adobe user, you should also be on the lookout for Adobe's updater.exe. It likes to do exactly what you're describing.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1244334?tstart=0