Intel® Arc™ Control Overlay Showing Inaccurate CPU Activity Data
Content Type: Product Information & Documentation | Article ID: 000094779 | Last Reviewed: 05/31/2023
When a game or application starts and runs the CPU Activity metric in the Arc Control overlay shows very low CPU usage compared to what Windows Task Manager or other apps such as MSI's Afterburner.
This is expected behavior, and it occurs because Intel® Arc™ Control uses instantaneous CPU utilization while other applications, including Task manager, use a rolling average, thus resulting in different real-time readings for the same metric.