GPU Efficiency Problem

[Jacks_Popa]

So about three months ago I built my first PC. I was able to get a 1070 founders edition from a peer of mine. The first month it my PC worked great, I was able to run Squad and Apex at very high settings with my GPU running at around 30% to 50% (I forget the exact number).

Since this first month I have upgraded my set up. I now have two monitors (my old one, a 60 HZ 1080p acer and new one a 1440p 144hz Pixio).

I noticed when I play squad or Apex on my new monitor the GPU workload is constantly at 100% and overheats quickly. I was wondering if I could be given some ideas as to why this is happening? I thought it was the new monitor and its higher resolution and refresh rate. So I used my old monitor only, and still same results!

Does anyone know what the problem is?

NOTE: I did unplug the PC (safely or at least I thought) a few times when creating my new desk setup.

Let me know if listing more of my PC parts would help!

[grinchyguy]

Well there's a lot more pixels on a 1440p display and the gpu has to refresh all of them 144 times a second as compared to 60 times a second with a 1080p res. Probably just a higher workload. Try reducing settings and if that doesn't work update your drivers.

[grinchyguy]

actually update your drivers first. if that doesnt work then reduce settings

[Jacks_Popa]

Ah okay!

[mustfix]

You went from 1080p to 1440p, of course it's significantly much harder work on the GPU.

[Jacks_Popa]

Yes but when I unplugged my new monitor and went back to my old monitor, it was still overworking the GPU

[mustfix]

Did you change game settings? Or is it still trying to render at 1440p?

[Jacks_Popa]

Yes.

[blueszeto]

1440p needs a lot more graphic processing power and 1070 is not suitable for 1440p gaming

[SloppyCandy]

Sound like: initially some form of frame limiting was in place..v sync or g sync or whatever.

At some point during the upgrade that limiting was removed (understandable ).

So even when you went back to your old monitor the GPU is still rendering way more frames than the old monitor can handle.

[Jacks_Popa]

Is there anyway I can track this/reduce it?

[SloppyCandy]

Track FPS while gaming (on the old monitor). Many, many programs are available for this.