Overheating my video card?

Avernus please you should stop telling people to use 60fps on 120hz monitors in games...Clearly this game has some problems atm because every other game works with minimal fanspeeds at 120-300fps with no problems at all...

At best your only going to see up to 70fps even on your 120Hz panel/tv. Locking the framerate to 60 will give you liquid smooth visuals without stressing your GPU.

You do not need 120fps just because your refresh is 120. All these new TV's pushing 600Hz etc are nothing more than marketing gimicks to get you to buy their brand.

The standard in gaming right now is 1080p DX11 60fps. That is the mark your trying to hit for good gameplay and performance. Also turning VSYNC on will get rid of tearing which greaty improves your imagine quality. For people with 120Hz we will need a framelimiter to lock the framerate. VSYNC will also be enabled.

Unless your sporting a 680/670 Nvidia GPU with adaptive VSYNC. To my knowledge ATI does not have adaptive VSYNC. Either way this is why when you play Starcraft as an example you will find VSYNC and framelimiter options as both are needed for maximum image quality and to not overstress the GPU on wasted frames.

Avernus i dont know why you are still talking about things that dont help the problem in question here...And please your post is also wrong it depends on the games you play.Clearly you arent really familiar with competive fps games and settings etc.But the only thing i would like to see is this game patched so its playable since the fan problem is there it doesnt matter if i use 1 or 300 fps the gpu is still going crazy in this game and by the gpu i mean the fans.

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sexconnery wrote:

Avernus i dont know why you are still talking about things that dont help the problem in question here...And please your post is also wrong it depends on the games you play.Clearly you arent really familiar with competive fps games and settings etc.But the only thing i would like to see is this game patched so its playable since the fan problem is there it doesnt matter if i use 1 or 300 fps the gpu is still going crazy in this game and by the gpu i mean the fans

I'm sorry but you have no clue what you're talking about, and if your going to call out someone who does and then whine about your gpu overheating I can't help you.

as said, just because you have a 120hz monitor it doesnt mean you have to run 120fps... the game on my laptop rarely sees above 30fps.

i would say 60fps would be ok on this game.

maybe the devs could tell us the optimum for this game? i believe its down to motion blur technology rather than fps... i presume the game engine would make this vary, hence the reason some games run quicker fps than others. hopefully someone can confirm this?

mw2 on the 360 is ran at 60fps, whereas bf3 is only ran at 30fps, also halo 3 was ran at 30 fps.

It seems to me that im talking to the console gaming generation here who have no idea...But lets leave it to that my problem is not overheating its the fans.Ty and dont continue this pointless fps discussion...And special thanks to Avernus for his efforts in this thread no hate <3.

Add me to the hot temp gpu list

95c in town = crash
85c in act 1 (anywhere) = crash
62c current temp after 10hours+ 'normal' use.
= no crash, ever, yet.

VSync was on in game and
Vertical Refresh was set to Always On in CCC.

basic specs.

ATI5870 (all 'hot' gpu threads = ATi's??)
i5 quad/4gig ram.

Had blue screen once but mostly its a game crash with error saying Driver Disabled and that it has recovered.

All other games play fine but i've just bought a gpu cooler as I would:-
a/ like to see if it helps/prevents crash, even though it obviously is the *beta stage of the game, plz *note i do not directly blame the game its beta after all.
b/ I wanna keep playing, simple as that and I would rather spend £40 on a gpu cooler than buy diablo drm 3 :)(I'll be buying T2 though ;) )

My game crashes at about 93 degrees Celsius.
I own a GeForce 9800 GT, and I play at fps locked via Vsync at 75. I have other games which are more graphically demanding and they don't run at that high temperatures.

Just thought, that I would bump this thread so the devs take care of it.

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AuralVirus wrote:

Add me to the hot temp gpu list

95c in town = crash
85c in act 1 (anywhere) = crash
62c current temp after 10hours+ 'normal' use.
= no crash, ever, yet.

VSync was on in game and
Vertical Refresh was set to Always On in CCC.

basic specs.

ATI5870 (all 'hot' gpu threads = ATi's??)
i5 quad/4gig ram.

Had blue screen once but mostly its a game crash with error saying Driver Disabled and that it has recovered.

All other games play fine but i've just bought a gpu cooler as I would:-
a/ like to see if it helps/prevents crash, even though it obviously is the *beta stage of the game, plz *note i do not directly blame the game its beta after all.
b/ I wanna keep playing, simple as that and I would rather spend £40 on a gpu cooler than buy diablo drm 3 :)(I'll be buying T2 though ;) )

Check if air can flow freely through the computer. Make sure that there are no dust clouds inside the case and that there is enough room around the case. 65C is very high for an idle temperature.

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ravenhold wrote:

My game crashes at about 93 degrees Celsius.
I own a GeForce 9800 GT, and I play at fps locked via Vsync at 75. I have other games which are more graphically demanding and they don't run at that high temperatures.

Just thought, that I would bump this thread so the devs take care of it.

What is the idle temperature of your graphical card? It is a known issue that higher-end gpu's tend to blow themself up creating as much frames as possible, while only 60/second can be displayed. I believe there are simple programs out there that can limit the amount of frames generated until such an option is implemented in the game.

Don't know if it is the gpu but I had some serious problems with the heat generated while playing PoE.
I play on an packard bell's Easynote TJ65 (intel core 2 duo CPU T6600 @2.20 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GT240M) and after around 45 minutes playing (sometime more, less often it's less than 30 minutes) it turns itself off for the heat and I have to wait at least an hour before start thinking about playing again.
I would like o point out that I recently disassembled the laptop to clean it (I do so every 6 months) so this situation worries me.
I play at 800x600, no shadows no AA, no anything, just V-sync after reading this topic (it didn't help), the games runs at 60 fps most of the time, I have some drops with the V-sync.

I apologize for my English.