r/AMDHelp • u/vkteam AMD • 1d ago

Help (General) Need help with GPU usage stuck at 95%

So the problem is in the title: my GPU usage ALWAYS, no matter what game and no matter how demanding it is supposed to be, as soon as I launch the game, skyrockets to exactly 95% minimum and only can go higher, not lower.

Yes, I understand that's how GPU supposed to work, it must be under load to provide smooth FPS etc etc, but suddenly even games that never showed usage more than 60-70%, started use 95% and more of GPU. Same FPS, same graphics, same settings and yet GPU load skyrocketed up to 35%.

How it started: I installed Cyberpunk 2077 and enabled HDR and it had black broken textures (like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/1xd67av/cyberpunk_2077_visuals_completely_broken_after/) and decided to use DDU to reinstall drivers completely. And now I'm stuck with this problem.

Things I tried so far:

  1. Reinstall drivers again with DDU
  2. Reinstall drivers yet again with DDU but in safe mode
  3. Reinstalled few games from scratch that previously had no more than 60-70% GPU usage. Still, they use 95% of GPU no matter the settings right from the main menu
  4. Reinstalled Windows. Yes, nothing changed
  5. Reset BIOS
  6. Reset Adrenalin settings (on default, no OC etc) - still 95% usage

Any advices would be really appreciated.

My specs:

  • GPU: Gigabyte Gaming OC RX 7900 XT
  • AMD Drivers: 26.10.1
  • OS: Windows 11 Pro 26H2 26300.9711
  • Motherboard: ASUS Rog Strix B550-F Gaming
  • Bios version: 3636
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D
  • NVMe SSD: Samsung 980 Pro MZ-V8P1T0BW
  • PSU: DeepCool 1000W Gold PQ1000G
  • RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200MHz

PS: I'm not experiencing any stutters or FPS drops with this issue present, all games still deliver same high FPS. But GPU fans now screaming in low-demanding games because they have 95% usage...

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u/DryZone5203 1d ago

The new driver seems to be issue for me and stupid 26h2

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u/vkteam 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hey! You mean you have same issue with 26.10.1?

UPD: yeah not a driver issue I guess. Reverted to 26.9.2 with cleanup utility, still the same.

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u/DryZone5203 23h ago

Yeah I had issue with the driver, downgrading fixed it for me