Having a dog while in a menu uses a lot of power and increases heat drastically. Changing menus does not drop the power unless I change to a build with Lone Wolf to remove the dog. The escape menu also draws too much.
Standing in the ship (with/without dog and on any character) around 119-122w avg
Loadout/cosmetics/talent menus(after rendering dog in loadout) 270-290w avg
It’s been like that for a long time. Every time i enter Masteries (Blessings), the GPU usage shoots up. It’s been like that since they added Masteries to the game and reworked the menu.
Like wtf does my GPU need to render when accessing it ? The candles?!
This game’s optimization has always been a very low priority. For years at this point.
I got a 6950XT. I always cap my frame rate @ 120 (RTSS) and don’t use Vsync.
Optimization is absolute arse in this game. Somehow it manages to crash due to “memory shortage” when there is 10-20GB of RAM free in my system, also 16GB of VRAM on my GPU. I barely have 50-60 fps (on average, it routinely drops to 30 fps after a couple hours of playing the game) in missions on hardware that somewhat exceeds their “recommended” settings, on medium graphics settings, with all “heavy” features disabled. And fanboys keep telling me about my PC being an issue, “broken”, “not configured properly”, other crap. Lol. I don’t have so many performance issues in other games for some reason, even more visually refined, at the same time.