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it uses 10% of my cpu at all times... when gaming, when not gaming, etc...
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is it normal to have high cpu usage from radeon software all the time? my gpu is rx 6800 and cpu is 5600x
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Probably related to this PSA thread here:
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That power usage is really high though for a sub-15% CPU usage. Mine usually starts at over 40% or 50% when power usage is very high.
PSA: AMD's Graphics Driver will Eat One CPU Core when No Radeon Installed
While I was messing around with an older SSD test system (not benchmarking anything) I wondered why the machine's performance was SO sluggish with the NVIDIA card I just installed. Windows startup, desktop, Internet, everything in Windows would just be incredibly slow. This is an old dual-core...
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That power usage is really high though for a sub-15% CPU usage. Mine usually starts at over 40% or 50% when power usage is very high.
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Probably related to this PSA thread here:
PSA: AMD's Graphics Driver will Eat One CPU Core when No Radeon Installed
While I was messing around with an older SSD test system (not benchmarking anything) I wondered why the machine's performance was SO sluggish with the NVIDIA card I just installed. Windows startup, desktop, Internet, everything in Windows would just be incredibly slow. This is an old dual-core...
That power usage is really high though for a sub-15% CPU usage. Mine usually starts at over 40% or 50% when power usage is very high.
hopefully a bios update to mobo, and fresh drivers/clean install next month or in feb fixes it for me.
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No, not normal, is this idle at the desktop or doing other non gaming tasks like browsing? Firstly ddu your drivers if you haven't already, clean install the latest whql ones, see if that fixes it if not then you'll have to look at what else could be causing it, that process is eating 0% of my CPU just sitting at the desktop and using opera. I wouldn't wait a month to do a driver refresh.
Theres a few ideas here also and by doing a quick duckduckgo search (I don't use google
) such asusing the factory reset option with in the radeon settings, changing relive directory etc
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Theres a few ideas here also and by doing a quick duckduckgo search (I don't use google
) such asusing the factory reset option with in the radeon settings, changing relive directory etc
Radeon Software Host Application constant CPU usage
Why is this process that's meant to sit idle in the background CONSTANTLY using ~10% of the CPU? Tried reinstalling the latest driver, but it eventually came back eating up the CPU without even running any game...
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No, not normal, is this idle at the desktop or doing other non gaming tasks like browsing? Firstly ddu your drivers if you haven't already, clean install the latest whql ones, see if that fixes it if not then you'll have to look at what else could be causing it, that process is eating 0% of my CPU just sitting at the desktop and using opera. I wouldn't wait a month to do a driver refresh.
Theres a few ideas here also and by doing a quick duckduckgo search (I don't use google
already tried that. and i tried it in safe mode with ddu, got rid of it all. and then reinstalled everything, and everytime i tried installing fresh amd drivers it would get stuck... so yeah i guess i will just doa clean install tonight. it doesn't take me very long as i only game... and thats all on backup drives so meh.
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Do you use relive?
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nope. i literally dont do anything except load up steam and game.
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wipe and reinstall it didn't work? definitely not normal
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No offense but how can it be related to that when that's regarding an Nvidia GPU system that also has AMD drivers installed, he doesn't have an Nvidia GPU installed.Probably related to this PSA thread here:
PSA: AMD's Graphics Driver will Eat One CPU Core when No Radeon Installed
While I was messing around with an older SSD test system (not benchmarking anything) I wondered why the machine's performance was SO sluggish with the NVIDIA card I just installed. Windows startup, desktop, Internet, everything in Windows would just be incredibly slow. This is an old dual-core...
That power usage is really high though for a sub-15% CPU usage. Mine usually starts at over 40% or 50% when power usage is very high.
Have you got the latest drivers or the WHQL ones? I prefer to stick to WHQL (usually underneath the latest released ones on the download page) or the Pro drivers, seems less headaches though could likely just a placebo affect?
Also the other usual suspects, latest chipset and motherboard drivers should be up to date, and a reinstall of those (especially the chipset ones, there are likely newer ones available from AMD than the ones on your motherboards download page) also worth a shot IMO
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i think it was my fault actually. i tried using to some hotfix 12.2 driver i got off guru3d... and it was only for 6800 xt and 6900 xt cards... not non-6800... i think that's what messed it up lol but at the time i thought it was for all 3 new cards... (thats when my problems started)
honestly just going to do a clean install tonight, it will be fine after that meh. it will only take me an hr
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They havent released any modern drivers for years, infact back when it was ATI control centre, not sure how you even installed them on a modern GPU and system if what you're saying is correct
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Good find, I take it these are stock AMD drivers or modded? personally there's no reason to download them from anywhere but AMD these days, especially with new GPU's and monthly updates etc I won't even download the "official" Powercolor one for my Powercolor 5600 XT.
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AMD Radeon Adrenalin Edition 20.12.2 driver download
Download the all-new Radeon Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.12.2. This release support only the Radeon 6800 (XT) and 6900 XT....
these are the ones that messed up my system... again my fault, I thought it included rx 6800 NON-XT but nope lol so yeah... lesson learned, pay attention
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They're stock drivers. The only difference is that the 20.12.2 are only for the 6800xt ad 6900xt. Direct from AMD this version doesn't show available for download unless you use either the auto-detect, or choose the 6800xt or 6900xt. If you select 6800, the latest available version is 20.12.1
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Don't really know, but I suppose they are stock, otherwise it would say. The only places where I ever downloaded the Radeon drivers from are either TPU or AMD themselves. And these days, with the update feature integrated into Radeon Software itself, I just read the changelog here and then get to the program and tell it to start downloading...
I haven't bothered ever trying the Gigabyte version of Radeon drivers for my RX 580, which by the way haven't been updated since 2018...
By the way, @lynx29 you should consider just using the update feature in Radeon Software, it will select the correct driver version for your card in these rare cases. You can set it to either just WHQL or Betas and WHQL. The drivers are usually downloaded to C:\AMD, if you want to keep copies of them.
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Yeah some things going on for sure, never seen it any were that high even more so at idle. at idle it's 0.02% lmao. Maybe it's a bug in the drivers so maybe try another version ?.
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ya it was installing the wrong driver and i had an OC on the gpu at the time, it prob had something to do with that, and once i uninstalled those drivers... and went back to old drivers, games were laggy etc more than usual... so just gonna do a clean install, won't take me long and will be rock solid after that im sure lol
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Make sure windows isn't allowed to install driver updates, reset afterburner if you have an OC profile or whatever, use DDU, install latest drivers using factory clean install option, reboot and (hopefully) win 
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Make sure windows isn't allowed to install driver updates, reset afterburner if you have an OC profile or whatever, use DDU, install latest drivers using factory clean install option, reboot and (hopefully) win
I'm just going to do a clean install lol i have all my steam games backed up, so reinstalling them doesn't take that long honestly.
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Whoops... My bad. Forgot that AMD driver need to be uninstalled when high CPU usage happens. That thread came to mind when I think of Lynx29's issue.
Well, since I never had a Radeon card before, I don't have any experience with it to be able to give this thread any advise. I will however, continue to monitor this thread to learn the issue & steps it takes to fix it.
Did you install a BIOS Update? I experience the same issue after upgrading to the latest ASUS Bios...
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I did, on November 16th, I never checked task manager until mid December though, so I have no idea if it has been doing it since that update or not.
However, I did just finish my clean install of Win 10 - full re-do - and everything is perfect, no high cpu usage, everything is great now. lol
I'm going to laugh if tomorrow AMD releases new drivers, pretty much how my luck goes.
I've found a solution (that works for me). Using the ProcessMonitor from Microsoft SysInternals with autoscroll enable, I can see the "Radeon Software: Host Application" process in a loop trying to find some directories, all of them from uninstalled games that still have an empty folder (thanks, Steam 
). In my case are in the same base path "D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common", the folders "Destiny 2", "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" and "RESIDENT EVIL REVELATIONS 2". Since all this three folders are empty, when I finish delete the last one, the Radeon Software become 0% of CPU usage.
Again, this work for me and the folders may vary but I think you can try that.
). In my case are in the same base path "D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common", the folders "Destiny 2", "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes" and "RESIDENT EVIL REVELATIONS 2". Since all this three folders are empty, when I finish delete the last one, the Radeon Software become 0% of CPU usage.Again, this work for me and the folders may vary but I think you can try that.