I have a Dell Inspiron laptop running Windows 11, but I’m not sure of the exact model. I bought it about two years ago, and recently my ISP told me that I consumed around 700 GB of data within 30 days, which seems really high. The only recent change is that I started playing Genshin Impact on GeForce Now for about 1-3 hours every three days. I’ve scanned my laptop for viruses, but nothing came up, and I deleted unnecessary apps and files. This kind of data usage has never happened before, even with similar usage patterns. I checked Task Manager, but everything looks normal. Any ideas on what might be causing this?
GeForce Now is a cloud streaming service, so when you’re playing, you’re really just watching a video stream of the game running in the cloud. It uses a ton of data—like, around 10GB/hour at basic settings. If you played for 10 sessions of 3 hours each, that could easily add up to 300GB or more, especially if you’re playing at higher quality.
Yep. Case closed on that one.
I played on Amazon Luna and it sunk my entire data cap in just two weekends. It’s a real issue for cloud gaming, especially if you don’t have unlimited data. If you’re paying for unlimited, why stream games when you could just play them locally on a decent rig?
Limits on fiber are really rough these days.
I’ve hit 400-600GB in a single day just from downloading games and watching 4K stuff. It’s crazy how fast data can go.
Nvidia VSR helps me a lot. It saves data while still giving a good quality experience.
GeForce Now really eats up data. If you pull a historical data report from your ISP, I bet you’ll see your usage spike since you started playing it. LOL.
You should check your data usage settings. Just go to settings and search for ‘data usage’ to see which apps are using the most.
Yeah, just use the Windows search bar to check that.
Honestly, if you’re on GeForce Now, you’re likely using more data than you realize. I go through a terabyte a month just watching videos.
GeForce Now had an upgrade that increased graphics from HD to QHD recently, which might have spiked your data too.