The issue brought up in this thread has nothing to do with stutters, the stutter the other player mentioned is not the issue and has nothing to do with much higher GPU usage, stutter usually happens on slow hard drives, driver issues/conflicts and high temperatures, a cluttered Windows or just poor optimization on the game but there's no stutter, and when stutters happen the GPU always drops in usage and then goes back to normal which obviously increases the GPU clocks, that's normal.

Now, like i said stutters can happen due to high temperatures as it will throttle the GPU/CPU depending on what's getting too hot, since the usage is higher it increases temperatures causing throttle, so it might be the problem of that player.

Anyway had to clear that up before the wrong info was "escalated", the problem is what's in the title, GPU usage going up to max, i'm inside my Medium House in Lavender Beds, 71% usage, seriously?

I play at 1440p with a GTX1080 and 60FPS lock, this issue is new with patch 4.3.

- Transparent Light Quality from high to normal drops usage inside the house by around 8%
- Ambient Occlusion from HBAO+ Standard to Off 6%

But this is normal as both of these are GPU intensive, hence why i don't even use HBAO+ Quality.

I also noticed my temperatures getting higher than normal, especially since ambient temp is 15ºC.

I don't know if something in the graphics engine was update and is causing this but something is clearly wrong.

I can provide screenshots and even record videos showing what's happening if needed.

Please look into this, thank you.