My GPU started roasting during the Zarokh fight

So I just fought and thankfully completed the last trial but I believe sometime after the first time orb soak phase thingy my GPU began reaching temps of 75-80C and the GPU fan went ballistic, I've never seen the temp go above 50C ever since I purchased this card over a year ago so it gave me a bit of a scare when it started sounding so loudly.


Anyway I run everything on low with fps capped at 80 with DX12 and the card in question is a Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 TI.


Needless to say I do not feel like I would ever want to run the 4th trial ever again if this issue persists :(

The game is poorly optimised. Unfortunately, GGG have so much good will built up the main stream are reluctant to make any open criticism.

i have a 4070ti. 1440p capped at 120fps no games ever went above 70 degrees until path of exile 2 and now path of exile 1.

poe 2 gets it up to 75 degrees. poe 1 does that too quite frequently in delves and simulacrum's and normally i wouldn't take much issue at my gpu running at 70-75 degrees except for the fact that i am now hitting spikes in gpu hotspots between 95 - 105 degrees, and now i'm worried that these games are going to destroy my card. even though i dont think the occasional hotspot spikes to 105 would be damaging to the card. i think it throttles after 110, and as far as i can tell my clock speeds remain the same and i haven't been throttling at all. but i can't help to be paranoid because seeing those hotspot temperature readouts for even just a split second is rather concerning for me, even though it probably shouldn't be unless it was constantly running at those temperatures instead of just spiking that high and shooting back down again.

and then i run any other demanding game and temps are back in the mid - low 60's and the gpu core and memory temps and hotspot is very well in check. and then i'll run some path of exile and this game will work some kind of witchcraft on my machine that no other game has been able to perform.

but yeah i can't help but to be concerned that this game is going to wreck my gpu. it's not even that old and there's no way the thermal paste would have dried up this quick when i don't even stress my card that much....well until i fire up path of exile.


cpu ain't an issue. barely goes above 60 degrees.

all my dust filters for my corsair 4000D case are clean, all my internals are clean, my gpu and the sag bracket are snug, opened my case up and everything is nice and snug. there's nothing obstructing my gpu fans. my 3 intake and 3 exhaust fans seem to be looking fine. there's no dust built up in the machine. it's an asus gpu and i'm using the performance bios switch on the card, but i havent ever overclocked and was still using the default fan profile but i used afterburner to try a little more aggressive of a fan curve and it doesn't seem to avoid getting a microspike to 105 in the hot spot when i was fighting some harbies in delve, so i just reverted it back because the stock fan speeds are good enough for me as they are. well, for every other games i guess.

once again all of my other games run fine. cyberpunk with ray tracing and a nicely modded witcher 3 next gen are supposed to be far more demanding than path of exile yet they won't even get my gpu core temps into the 70's even if i begged them to.

my machine never breaks a sweat unless i'm playing path of exile. out of the dozens of triple a demanding games i have on my machine these are the only two games that will bring my gpu temps into concerning territory, and they run off the same old ass engine that's never been generous to anybodies hardware. at this point one would have an impossible time trying to convince me that it's a hardware issue rather than an issue with the game engine, because if there was anything going on with my card, i would be seeing it in every kind of demanding game or benchmark, and not just the same two games that are frequently the topic of performance issues.

i'm just going to try not to worry about it. if it dies out i'll just rma it or buy a 4080 like i was originally planning on except i wasn't quite sure at the time if my 750 watt psu would be enough to handle it but now i know it will as it doesn't draw a whole lot more power than the the strix 4070ti. but nonetheless this has wasted my whole morning trying to figure all this out and i'm probably just overstressing things. like i say my pc runs great with every other games i throw at it. but giving it the good ole "path of exile torture test" and seeing hotspots microspiking to over 100 degrees has me feeling a little bit unnerved when i have never before seen them get into the 90's. but i haven't gotten any throttling or crashing yet so i guess i should be alright. i just don't know if i want to push my luck any further with these games. on the otherhand i'm close to banking nearly 4000 hours on steam in PoE, and my other two gpu's managed to hold out just fine from all the abuse this game threw at them. i was kinda hoping i'd be able to squeeze out another thousand hours or so out of this game before i decide to call it quits or my gpu does. which ever comes first i guess.

i don't really want to tear apart my gpu just to check or replace the thermal pads and paste. the card is still very much under warranty and quite frankly i am pretty certain that there is nothing wrong with it but i just don't want to mess around with the internals of the card and possibly damage it just because of two games that don't want to run as cool on my hardware as i want them to. i think the only solution that i've came up with to alleviate these high hotspot peaks is to undervolt my card a little bit and go with a more aggressive fan curve when i run these two games.

i shouldn't even have to be thinking about any of this considering that i can max out every other game under the sun and my temps will still be glorious. but a 13 year old game engine came along and said "hold my beer."

So a bit of a bump, I just did the breach boss as well now for the first time and the exact same thing happened, is there any boss at all that won't completely fry my GPU?

Any optimization methods?

In first few days i could run the game normally but i didnt play POE2 everyday. Today when i start the game, i found my GPU fan is crazy (2k RPM- 3k RPM and repeat reapeat..). I was shocked by the noise the fan made...

Same issue. Whenever I do some intense combos like lightning rod + galvanic shards and there are a lot of chain lightnings, GPU hot spot temp goes crazy. It doesn't affect the GPU main temp, it doesn't go above 50, but the hot spot temp very quickly exceeds 70 and my fans spin like crazy.

It's not just the temps either. It feels like whatever calculation that goes on on the background is not well optimized. I easily reach 144 FPS normally, but in those instances the FPS drops to around 30 FPS.

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
CPU: Ryzen 5700X3D

Me too ( 4080 super ) I play in 1440p

the gpu reached 95 degrees with the fans running at maximum

my cpu is under custom liquid cooling. the problem is only with PoE2, with no other game I have detected this problem

seriously worrying