GPU usage is way too high for some time now!

[Claire_Pendragon]

Maybe its Nvidia too. They tend to make older models slowly worse and worse over time, to make sure you dont keep using them, even thought they can handle newer games at lower settings.
But I have no idea how to tell when its them vs an error on SEs part.
(Quite a few times a patch has come out for 14, and an NVidia driver comes out roughly similar in timing. Though I havent checked in a long while as I stopped updating.)

[joegoku]

Maybe its Nvidia too. They tend to make older models slowly worse and worse over time, to make sure you dont keep using them, even thought they can handle newer games at lower settings.
But I have no idea how to tell when its them vs an error on SEs part.
(Quite a few times a patch has come out for 14, and an NVidia driver comes out roughly similar in timing. Though I havent checked in a long while as I stopped updating.)

Problem is, it's with newer Cards as well, like 1080, and I did quite some different updates now with nvidia, it changed, saddly, nothing... Only difference with newer cards, they can handle it bcs they have more power and VRAM... but that's all^^"

[SimplyJames168]

Problem is, it's with newer Cards as well, like 1080, and I did quite some different updates now with nvidia, it changed, saddly, nothing... Only difference with newer cards, they can handle it bcs they have more power and VRAM... but that's all^^"

let me tell you that SE f***ed up the last patch and its taking the toll on everyone. I have gtx 970 as well and I can run games on ultra or very high settings but since 4.2 came out FF has kept crashing down ever since. I didn't check the consumption and id rather not but I can tell you that my graphics card is super hot and I know for a fact it shouldn't be. not with a game like FF its just ridiculous and unacceptable. changing graphic setting in the game doesn't change a thing its still the same so yeah SE needs to sort this asap because I know quite a few hundred players that are willing to unsub from FF at this point.

[Riardon]

Maybe its Nvidia too. They tend to make older models slowly worse and worse over time, to make sure you dont keep using them, even thought they can handle newer games at lower settings.
But I have no idea how to tell when its them vs an error on SEs part.
(Quite a few times a patch has come out for 14, and an NVidia driver comes out roughly similar in timing. Though I havent checked in a long while as I stopped updating.)

Please don't spread FUD. It has been proven again and again and again that this is uttterly false.
Nor Nvidia or AMD slow their GPUs over time. It's the games that become more demanding over time.
In fact both companies slightly icnrease the performance of older models through driver optimizations.