Getting your graphics card to hit 100% load when you don’t have any games (or programs using the GPU) can be quite a serious problem, especially if it also means that when playing games you experience drops. circumstantial FPS. that ruin your gaming experience. Besides that, of course, it also means that something is not working as it should, because the graphics card is not a component that needs to be 100% tuned for no reason. Let’s see what you can do about it.
Reasons why the graph jumps to 100%
There are several reasons why this situation can occur, such as:
- A hardware failure affects the performance of the graphics card.
- The GPU is overloaded with processes running in the background.
- There is a driver problem.
- Your PC may be infected with some kind of malware.
Since you have a problem, let’s see what we can do to fix it.
Checks on your equipment
If you are having this problem that your graphics card seems to be going 100% for no reason, the first thing to do is to check the hardware, and that starts with checking the cable connections to tearing down the graphics card from your PC to verify that it was properly connected.
Start by disconnecting then reconnecting the video cables, both on the graphics card side and on the monitor side. Then, with the PC powered off and completely disconnected, remove the side cover, remove the PCIe power connectors leading from the power supply, and finish by removing the graphics card from the PCI-Express socket. Take the opportunity to visually check that everything is in good condition, then do the opposite: reassemble the visual and reconnect the cables, making sure that everything is in place.
If after doing this the graphics card still goes to 100% even when you are on the Windows desktop, then either there is a deeper hardware problem with the graphics card or the problem is in the software, so let’s move on to the next section . .
Software controls
Let’s start by making sure you don’t have a driver problem, so the best thing to do is to completely uninstall any graphics driver from your PC with DDU and then do a clean install of the drivers that match your model. card (it is recommended to have downloaded the drivers beforehand). This way you not only ensure that you have installed the latest driver, but also that there are no remnants of old drivers that could conflict.
Once done, if you still have the same problem, it is possible that your PC is infected with Malware, so that is the next thing to check. We recommend that you start by performing a deep scan of the PC with Windows Defenderaccompanying you if necessary in third-party programs such as Malwarebytes, a program that we know works quite well even in its free version. If a virus or malware is detected and removed, fine, check to see if the issue has been resolved.
But if nothing you have done works and the problem persists, the next thing we would do would be to check that, indeed, the graphics card is in good condition and has no issues with its hardware. ..unfortunately the best way to check this is to unmount the graphics card and mount it on another PC (ask a friend for help with this) to check if the problems persist…if it is If so, the graphics card may be broken and you may have to change it or manage an RMA if it is still within the warranty period.
