GPU Usage 100%, Tempertature >80C but the game requires only 1GB VRAM

AnoyRc

I have Acer Nitro 5(515-42) has a radeon 560x, Apex Legends is low settings need 1.4gb Vram but I saw in my nitrosense that it has a GPU usage of 100% and temp>80, But the main problem is FPS drops when the temperature rises up to 80C.

What I have tried :

1.Reinstalling Graphics Driver

2.Power Plan set to High Performance

3.Fan speed is at Max

Please Help!!

andylb

The new AMD Adrenalin 2020 Control Center is designed to give support for your hardware and contains Mobile Driver support for this exact model, the Graphics Drivers on the Acer site are only base drivers. If you haven't already downloaded and installed it then click the link below to download it. If you get a failure installing the new Control Center then download and run DDU https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html for a clean uninstall of your current AMD Center and Drivers then try to install again

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-19-12-3

Most of the problems I have encountered answering questions similar to yours are that users do not have the GPU set up correctly in the Control Center and are gaming on their Dedicated Vega 8 GPU which gives poor performance and is not designed for gaming. I have your exact model and my gaming experience using the AMD 2020 Control Center is good, Follow these instructions

First make sure you game with your battery charged to 100% BEFORE gaming and KEEP plugged into the main AC power while gaming. Make sure "High Performance when on AC", is selected in your Windows Power Plan and in Nitrosense. If you fail to do this your CPU will run at around 50% of capacity and you will experience poor game performance

Open the New AMD 2020 Control Center and click the GAMING tab then click the 3 dots in the upper right hand corner and select ADD A GAME, navigate to your games .exe file and double click it to add it, or you can select SCAN FOR GAMES and let the Control Center search your harddrive for games to add. After successfully adding the game click on the game and you will be taken to another window and click the LAUNCH GAME tab.
Only in this way will your games use the Discrete Rx560x GPU, NEVER launch your game through a desktop shortcut or any other way, do it in the manner I have described.

Please remember that online gaming may experience low fps and stutter due to the games servers and bottlenecking and that has nothing to do with your GPU.

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sri369

AnoyRc said:

I have Acer Nitro 5(515-42) has a radeon 560x, Apex Legends is low settings need 1.4gb Vram but I saw in my nitrosense that it has a GPU usage of 100% and temp>80, But the main problem is FPS drops when the temperature rises up to 80C.

What I have tried :

1.Reinstalling Graphics Driver

2.Power Plan set to High Performance

3.Fan speed is at Max

Please Help!!

It seems like your game is using IGPU instead of DGPU. @andylb has detailed the procedure above on how to make the game use DGPU. Try and see if that helps.