Game Overheating Graphics Card

[Vashramire]

I've been away for a couple weeks so I had a bunch of updates waiting. After all was said and done I logged in and my graphics card turned into a jet engine. Nothing has changed in my setup for over 6 months. When I log in my fps shoots to 400ish except during loading screens which it goes to 30 and everything looks fine but my card (radeon R9 290X) quickly climbs to 80°C even in the Liset. Processor is fine, all cores are unparked as they have always been but recently the game literally thinks it's in the movie Speed and if it slows down, it will explode. This is the only game I have that does this. Drivers up to date and all that jazz. Riddle me this Batman.

[Axeroix]

you using a laptop??

[Pythadragon]

Enable V sync to cap your framerate to the refresh rate of your monitor.

 

Your GPU is rendering unnecessary frames, overstressing your system with frames that your monitor cannot actually display. V sync will stop the GPU from doing this.

 

I do not think you have a 400hz monitor. 60hz is most common, and 120/144hz are becoming slowly becoming more common with a low adoption rate.

 

Updates with warframe commonly reset your graphics settings. It is entirely possible that v sync used to be enabled, but then got turned off with an update.

Edited June 18, 2015 by Pythadragon

[5h1n0k4m1]

do you happen to over-clock the gpu ?

 

also dx11 or dx10 ?

Edited June 18, 2015 by 5h1n0k4m1

[[DE]Saske]

Enable V sync to cap your framerate to the refresh rate of your monitor.

 

Your GPU is rendering unnecessary frames, overstressing your system with frames that your monitor cannot actually display. V sync will stop the GPU from doing this.

 

I do not think you have a 400hz monitor. 60hz is most common, and 120/144hz are becoming slowly becoming more common with a low adoption rate.

 

Updates with warframe commonly reset your graphics settings. It is entirely possible that v sync used to be enabled, but then got turned off with an update.

 

^This will help.

[Brynslustafir]

Have you performed any internal dust removal over the last 6 months?

[weezedog]

Looking at the reviews of the R9 290x, AMD set the target temperature of the card at 95C so you aren't running hot at all, not according to spec.

[-Axphyxia-]

Well I have same card, and I only got 80+ when I'm at liset, when playing it's back a temp of 60-65º as max 75, but in Liset while doing nothing and afk ( with Vsync on) I back and see over 80ºc my high temp in liset after afk a while was 95ºc, I barely get that temp in others game, CPU temp is fine also. I just don't know why happens only when I'm at Liset.

[Pythadragon]

Well I have same card, and I only got 80+ when I'm at liset, when playing it's back a temp of 60-65º as max 75, but in Liset while doing nothing and afk ( with Vsync on) I back and see over 80ºc my high temp in liset after afk a while was 95ºc, I barely get that temp in others game, CPU temp is fine also. I just don't know why happens only when I'm at Liset.

 

Try verifying that your v sync setting is working by enabling 'show fps' in the game options. Anything over 60 = something is wrong.

[Sloan441]

80 degrees C isn't out of line, especially for the very hot running AMD cards.

 

Check your vsync settings. If enabled, that should drop temps a bit since the card won't be rendering unnecessary frames (with vsync disabled, I typically hit 300+fps, but my monitor has a 60hz refresh).

 

What you're seeing is pretty much what I see with my own TitanX. With vsync enabled the card usually sits around 65 degrees C. With vsync off, it'll hit 80 degrees, then the fans finally start cranking up. This can be changed by modifying the fan profiles.

[CY13ERPUNK]

kind of ridiculous that a brand new upgraded gtx 970m sli can overheat with this game =/

 

my older gpu didnt need vsync and actually ran better without it, but now after spending 2k to buy a top of the line lappy, i have to be careful that this game doesnt cook my new 2k dollar comp? =[

 

really wish DE put a lil more effort into their game's optimizations =/

[God_is_a_Cat_Girl]

I have this problem as well, though my GPU isn't new (GT630-2GD3).

Without V-sync I have no problems with the frame rate, but it's will be burning hot with the fan at 100%. With V-sync it's not as bad, but the game will way too often cap the frame rate at half of the total frame rate, which is really annoying since the game suddenly get super slughish, and no such thing happens without V-sync, this isn't as bad in DX9, it's rather bad in DX10/11.

 

(Seems like V-sync does that, so I either have no frame issues but have a burning card, or have bad drops and have a near burning card. I actually think that the weapon elemental FX is what causes most of the frame drops for me.)

Edited July 24, 2015 by Sorrow0110

[MillbrookWest]

kind of ridiculous that a brand new upgraded gtx 970m sli can overheat with this game =/

 

my older gpu didnt need vsync and actually ran better without it, but now after spending 2k to buy a top of the line lappy, i have to be careful that this game doesnt cook my new 2k dollar comp? =[

 

really wish DE put a lil more effort into their game's optimizations =/

Firstly, Congrats on the new Laptop ;) but this isn't DE's fault, it's kinda yours.

 

All DE can do is enforce an engine limit. Think Unreal Engine 3's 62 FPS cap (removable via ini tweaking, but not recommended) 

 

What you are doing to your laptop is essentially running it through a torture test. You aren't taxing any other part of the system except your GPU since you're allowing it to render frames with no limit, or bottleneck.

 

Advice to you is the same as the OP, enable V-sync and Cap your framerate. Since you run a laptop your screen is likely to have a 60Hz refresh rate. It asks for a new image 60 times a second. You can run 10000FPS, but your screen will only ever accept 60 of them every time it refreshes, therefore there's no reason to have your GPU cook itself rendering 400+ FPS in the liset.

 

If you're one of those who dislike the lag associated with V-sync. Look for 'Nvidia Inspector' set the cap to 90, 120...this should sort the input lag and stop the card from cooking itself.