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#922344 13/11/23 05:06 AM
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Worrisome GPU performance usage. (vulkan and DX11)

Serious jumps in loads under certain conditions:
dialogue with party member or some npc,
same on trade screen menu,
character creation menu,
magic mirror (change appearance) menu.
average values GPU Chip Power Draw - 20W, jumps to 103.8W
Board Power Draw jumps from 40W-45W to 128.5W
Power Consumption (%) jumps from ~20%-30% to 50%
Temperatures (hot spot) jumps from 60 to 75.6C
GPU Clock/Memory Clock jumps as well.
GPU Clock from 1350MHz to 1980MHz
Memory Clock from 1250 to 1937.7MHz
In the same time GPU fans cosplaying sounds of jungles with a rolling ROAR. It's (literally) sounds unhealthy for GPU.
I have never seen the described sharp fluctuations before, neither in early access, nor on earlier versions, nor in other games.

N. B.: OS 64bit Win10, i7-9700K @3.60Ghz, RAM 32Gb, NVIDIA RTX 2080 SUPER

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The GPU (CPU?) being fried during character creation has always baffled me. This has been present since Launch.
The "jungle roar cosplaying" LOL of cooling fans is also present after latest patches when hiring hirelings.

Buba68 #922366 13/11/23 10:45 AM
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I am occasionally playing BG3 since the beginning of Early Access, and I've never had similar troubles before. Plus I have habit to use diagnostic software in background. So I constantly have data on the level of loading of hardware in details.
Problem you have been experiencing since the launch should have a different root than the issue I described.
But the problem with hiring hirelings is the same. Thank you for your response.

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Happy to report that I have found a solution for the problematic behavior described above.
I deleted game's cache located at:
%AppData%\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\LevelCache
Now everything is going smoothly, without jumps, as it was before problem appeared.
I am so glad to see lower gpu temperatures again.

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