Armory crate service taking high cpu usage after switching to Eco mode

[blinked2098]

Hi ,

I have been facing this bug in Armoury crate since around a month and a half where after switching to Eco mode on my Zephyrus 2022 GA503RM, CPU usage for the Armory crate service starts hovering around ~ 20%. This is causing high temperatures and battery drain. The cpu usage becomes low once I switch back to Standard mode for the GPU.  Hope this is fixed soon. 

Regards,

Prannoy

[LRH123]

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@testuser_profil wrote:

I use it for long time. But somehow with AC games and everything else runs more stable and fluent. G-helper is good, but for me AC is a little better 

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For me I can't have G-helper without getting issues, as you said games and everything runs more stable with AC, the coincidence of few days running G-helper and then run sfc scannow command only to see that I already have corrupted files

[testuser_profil]

Im not sure, but that errors after sfc ran, may be caused after AC uninstall. G-helper doesn't really infect system like AC does. I'll suggest you to find cmd remover for all asus stuff. It will delete all except essential services. Then run sfc and finally try g-helper.

Also, to keep similar performance of device like with AC installed, try to export power profiles that comes with it. After AC uninstalled, import them(there are guides how to do such stuff) and insert their id's in G-helper(config.json)(there is a small guide in its git repo)

[blinked2098]

Hey Guyz,

I think I have been able to identify the cause of the issue 😀.  I too had observed the abnormally high cpu usage for nvcontainer.exe that lead me to suspect something was wrong there. After a lot of trial and error to rule Armory Crate out, I installed old Geforce driver v551.86 from March 2024(around the time things last worked fine) and this problem is now gone. I think the problem is caused by the new Geforce drivers but this now needs to be reported to Nvidia as driver issue causing a conflict with Armory crate Eco mode. 

Can the rest of you confirm if this resolves the problem for you too?

[testuser_profil]

Dude, idk why, but yeah, 551.86 works fine! You are a lifesaver ❤️

[blinked2098]

For me, unfortunately the problem came back after a few hours of being ok on the Geforce driver v551.86. Can't get this problem to go away.

[SnailyKid]

I have noticed this issue since January this year.

It's definitely Nvidia's driver issue. It happens from the Jan 2024 driver onwards. The latest stable driver I can find is v546.33 (Dec 2023).

[blinked2098]

Thanks bro! This version works perfectly and what's more, I am seeing much cooler temperatures on gaming with this. Also, today I have raised a ticket with Nvidia on this. Let's see what happens.

[blinked2098]

Hi Guyz,

After I reported this issue to Nvidia support, they have replied that they are going to escalate this case to their concerned department for further review. Also, they have provided a driver feedback form to report this issue. Below is the feedback link and a snip of the reply. Urge you all to report the issue through the feedback link to get their attention. 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewHJk1xP-C5elLBRCDLTLpNQZ9eiefrdZmUGP9hMCN6gKssA/viewform