(Nvidia users) How to turn down your cpu usage and improve your framerate

[SecretCrowds]

Just sharing something I found and hopefully it helps some people with lower spec PCs.

http://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffens...cpu_usage_and/

Recently i found that my card was trying to stream games to a nvidia shield even though i dont own one and it was eating at my cpu and destroying my framerate in games however i found a way to close down this process.

click the windows icon in the bottom left and search "services" http://i.imgur.com/NF1TAXr.png Next open up services and locate "NVIDIA Streamer Service" http://i.imgur.com/JQQmRVr.png Open the service and stop the service if its running then disable the service. http://i.imgur.com/lNvZSyg.png Do all this and hit apply and you'll be able to see a noticable framerate boost and drop in your cpu usage!

i hope this help a couple people out!

[Adrian74]

I consider my GTX 750 is awesome, and, it indeed is!...

But... My CPU is lame, very lame, and for some reason when going high graphics, the CPU starts going into "I'll die" mode...

Thank you a lot for sharing this!

Side note: What a development failure from Nvidia, to be streaming stuff without even prompting us.... It's not like everyone has the nvidia shield. Glad someone noticed this.

[Wildsprite]

thanks for this, it improved my desktop PCs performance greatly

[UltimateAoe2]

Thank you!

[Obysuca]

>_> Wouldn't happen to have one for non-nvidia people would you? lol Since about 2.2 XIV's brought my cpu usage from about 20% to around 80-90% now, causing horrible frame rate issues. It shouldn't be a pc problem, since my stuff can easily run it on max (unless something is going bad), considering a few people in my fc have worse pcs than me (I mean WORSE) and their cpu is only around 20-25%

[Orspeth]

Very good tip, Ty! It actually made a bit of a difference on my very meh benchmark score too!

[KarstenS]

Tested on my notebook and my desktop pc. No differences in the benchmark.