Issue:
Zooming in on units affected by divine powers like Frost or when it is unleashed shoots up GPU consumption in an abysmal way, going from 80w to almost 300w. The problem is much bigger when using TAA. FSR manages to mitigate it a little, but completely.
This was tested even without Ray Tracing, since if it is activated, in TAA the result is even more catastrophic, in addition, sometimes the consumption is reduced to half and showing 30 fps, but with high consumption anyway.
Repro Steps:
- Monitor GPU consumption, preferably with more powerful hardware such as RTX 30 and RTX 40 models 70-80.
- Activate the divine power FROST and zoom in on units
- Look at consumption again.
The standard usage of my GPU is 80-100w in the game, but with this god power it almost reaches 300.
Note: This was tested with maximum graphics quality 1440 with TAA, without Ray Tracing, setting the graphics to minimum will also cause the consumption to also shoot up when it is activated and zoomed to this power. It does not seem to be something dependent on the graphic quality. The consumption will always double or triple.