GW2 has recently started to eat GPU alive

As the title says, I've noticed that after thirty or so minutes of playing or more, the GPU use just keeps going up and up once I've gone past character select even once. So clearly, there is a data leak in the game somewhere, which I know has been an issue for a while, but it was always small before and could take hours to have a serious effect. Now it takes less than an hour. The wintersday patch seems to have put the last nail into the coffin so to speak. I was just curious if the source of it is known and being looked into, because I can literally hear it as my towers fans kick it up to deal with the stress being put on the computer. Obviously I close the game whenever it does, but that shouldn't be the only real solution.

Do you mean CPU ? Because my GPU is sleeping and gets to around 44c after playing a while..Where my idle gpu temp is 38c.

Hearing fans...doesn't mean it's getting too hot or too "stessed". Have you actually checked the temperature?

I've only noticed some extra lag for wintersday. .no memory issues at all.

I mix the two up often. But CPU usage tends to slowly build. GPU has been higher than usual lately though as well while running it.

No issues here the game works the same as it always does but I never run a lot of crap into the background while playing like a lot of people do!

"So clearly, there is a data leak in the game somewhere, which I know has been an issue for a while, but it was always small before and could take hours to have a serious effect."

Where is the clarity? Please show me now. Thanks in advance.

Well, to clarify, I think I mixed them up again. It still slolwy eats CPU, but the issues with the game seem to be mainly on Anet's end, considering it's up in flames again tonight. As for GPU, I might need to do some maintenance, I think that one is on my end.

High CPU usage while gaming is normal and nothing to be concerned about.

@"sweetrules.8359" said:Well, to clarify, I think I mixed them up again. It still slolwy eats CPU, but the issues with the game seem to be mainly on Anet's end, considering it's up in flames again tonight. As for GPU, I might need to do some maintenance, I think that one is on my end.

Have you got numbers? If it slowly "eats your cpu", can you show it? What cpu do you have?

GW2 strongly uses the CPU, but that is expected. .most high end games do. But making full use of it...doesn't mean it's too much.

AFAIK, most leaks of power/memory would eventually cause the computer to crash. Has you're computer crashed recently?

What CPU? What GPU? What are they both loading at when you first start and what are they at after 30mins? Are you in the same location with the same amount of people and objects on the screen? What OS are you using?