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First, I wasn't really sure which forum to post this in, but I've decided to post it here since it is at least somewhat related to games.
Has anyone noticed the Epic Games Launcher's rather high GPU utilization? I noticed it a long time ago, but I figured that if there was anything nefarious going on, surely someone would have figured it out by now. It seems that the launcher is typically loading the GPU to between 5-10% utilization, even when it's just open and doing nothing else. It makes me think that Epic is using GPU cycles for cryptocurrency mining or something - not an accusation, just a thought.
To be fair, even GOG Galaxy also seems to bounce around between 1-5% GPU utilization, although I think it might be the images/videos cycling across the default store page. Epic's launcher opens with just static images. I opened all of the launchers and let them sit for a minute or so, then opened task manager and took a screenshot, which you can see below. I'm not accusing Epic (or GOG) of anything shady, but it just seems odd.
Any thoughts?
Has anyone noticed the Epic Games Launcher's rather high GPU utilization? I noticed it a long time ago, but I figured that if there was anything nefarious going on, surely someone would have figured it out by now. It seems that the launcher is typically loading the GPU to between 5-10% utilization, even when it's just open and doing nothing else. It makes me think that Epic is using GPU cycles for cryptocurrency mining or something - not an accusation, just a thought.
To be fair, even GOG Galaxy also seems to bounce around between 1-5% GPU utilization, although I think it might be the images/videos cycling across the default store page. Epic's launcher opens with just static images. I opened all of the launchers and let them sit for a minute or so, then opened task manager and took a screenshot, which you can see below. I'm not accusing Epic (or GOG) of anything shady, but it just seems odd.
Any thoughts?