Kaspersky Standard - 30% GPU Usage too high in Idle

[Doctorull]

I have been using kaspersky antivirus since 2005, up until this year (2025).
This year i bought kaspersky standard, as there is no longer the AV version available.
Tonight, by chancem i had no idea, i noticed my fans in my PC were a bit loud and i was thinking why.
Then i have noticed a 30% load on my GPU and i see Kaspersky Standard up there and idk why is this happening.
Because with KAV (kaspersky antivirus) all these years it was ok and now with KS (kaspersky standard) i see this load on the GPU.
Actually Kaspersky Standard uses 17-20% and Desktop Window Manager 10%.
What's even more interesting, is that, with the protection off, the usage remains the same 🙂
It is only after i Exit the KS entirely, the GPU load drops to 0-2%, this % is how i know my GPU was on Idle.

GPU - Asus TUF 4080 Super
CPU - Ryzen9 7900
DDR - 32GB

Something is wrong in how the KS is working as opposed to the older KAV.
Now i'm thinking to buy whatever KAV i can find on the market, even tho' i just recently bought a 1y for 5 PC license.

I attached a screenshot to compare KS ON vs KS Exit (program closed entirely.)

[harlan4096]

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[AlexeyK]

@Doctorull This issue occurs for some users of version 21.22. It will be fixed in 21.23 (usually released in the second half of October). A temporary solution is to roll back to 21.21. The employee's comment is here.

[AlexeyK]

@Doctorull The issue has already been fixed in patch B for 21.22, which is distributed to users gradually. To check the availability of this patch, update the databases of version 21.22 and restart your OS. Or wait for 21.23 release - in this version the issue, of course, has also been fixed.

[Mohamed Ashraf]

I have version 21.23.6.614(a) and I'm still having this issue

Edited yesterday at 09:20 AM by Mohamed Ashraf

[AlexeyK]

1 час назад, Mohamed Ashraf сказал:

I have version 21.23.6.614(a) and I'm still having this issue

The issue has been returned by the developers in patch A for the version 21.23.🙂 Just kidding, of course. Please attach screenshots and describe in more detail. Perhaps there is some other kind of problem here.

[Doctorull]

I can confirm that for me the issue seems to be solved, i had an app update on the 16th of November and now i'm at 21.23.6.614, prior to this i had installed back in September the 21.22.7.466 version.
I now have 0-1% GPU usage in Idle and no Kaspersky is consuming GPU.

@Mohamed, i'd suggest reinstalling the app, do a complete uninstall, i remember back in the days Kaspersky had a removal tool of their own, perhaps that does a more in-depth removal then the Uninstall process from appwiz.cpl, idk, look it up and try.
But what i can say from my side, after the update to 21.23 on the 16th of November, the GPU load in Idle is how it should be.

[Mohamed Ashraf]

On 11/22/2025 at 1:28 PM, Doctorull said:

I can confirm that for me the issue seems to be solved, i had an app update on the 16th of November and now i'm at 21.23.6.614, prior to this i had installed back in September the 21.22.7.466 version.
I now have 0-1% GPU usage in Idle and no Kaspersky is consuming GPU.

@Mohamed, i'd suggest reinstalling the app, do a complete uninstall, i remember back in the days Kaspersky had a removal tool of their own, perhaps that does a more in-depth removal then the Uninstall process from appwiz.cpl, idk, look it up and try.
But what i can say from my side, after the update to 21.23 on the 16th of November, the GPU load in Idle is how it should be.

Actually reinstalling the program did fix the issue, thank you sir 🙏