High GPU usage in Windows 8 using HD6970

[cerebus]

I'm guessing this is probably more of a software issue but I'll post it here anyway and see what happens.

I just installed Windows 8 which is great, I've really not got any complaints so far.

EXCEPT

My VTX3D 6970 2gb is recording 86+% usage on idle, all the frickin time. It's driving temps up to 80c and I'm totally baffled. I'm using the latest possible drivers and the only relevant information I can find out via Google is here, which looks very similar to my problem - including the disable via device manager and restart fix. I'm guessing it's a driver issue but just want to know if anyone else here has experienced this.

Ta!

 

[killadoob]

driver version?

 

[cerebus]

12.10 off the top of my head.

 

[CataclysmZA]

Bump that up to the 12.11 drivers or reinstall your current ones and clean out your registry. I saw slightly higher GPU use on the 12.9 drivers I used when I was testing Windows 8 and 12.10 fixed my issues.

 

[Tim the Techxpert]

Hi There,
I also saw a post elsewhere last week that was indicating this problem. Updating to the latest drivers is something you should look at doing after a new release of an OS. It does take some time for driver providers to get up to date with the latest OS.

Regards

Tim

 

[killadoob]

I am running 12.9 because anything else is just a bunch of shyte. Hogs all my gpu power and i cannot play games without big frame drop so i rollled back to 12.9 and it's chilled.

I will try again some other time but .10 and .11 for me were bad. .9 hit the sweet spot.

 

[cerebus]

I am running 12.9 because anything else is just a bunch of shyte. Hogs all my gpu power and i cannot play games without big frame drop so i rollled back to 12.9 and it's chilled.

I will try again some other time but .10 and .11 for me were bad. .9 hit the sweet spot.

You could be right, I'll try this tonight.