DA:I causing over-heat in GPU
So, like many others, I was struggling to figure out why my game kept crashing to desktop (or if played in windowed bordeless, crashing to a white screen) and I think I figured it out. DA:I is causi...
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Got the same problem with my palit gtx 670, e.g. playing dota 2 on max settings takes my GPU to ~50°c.
Now with Dragon Age: I, automatic settings (nearly everthing high or ultra) takes my GPU to ~86°c.
Lowering the settings to High 85°c, medium 83°c, low (!!! Game looks literally like **bleep**) 78 - 80°c
Fun fact, i got this massive GPU overheating just with 2 games (Krater (very "old" game, but didnt want to play cause of the overheat) and now Dragon Age).
This seems to make no sense at all. I know that Dragon Age: I got just released (new game = high GPU usage etc blarg.) BUT, 80°c on low settings? (And its visible that all fancy stuff is gone, its ugly as hell :F). Somethings seems wrong here.
Would be glad if someone is able to help ☹️
My Rig:
GPU: GeForce GTX 670
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz
RAM:16,00 GB
monitor resolution: 1920 x 1080, 60Hz
Driverversion: 344.75
operating system: Windows 8.1 Pro
EDIT: Soooooo, i read somewhere that Dragon age got its problems with factory OC GPus, guess what, my palit jetstream gtx670 raised the GPU clock from 915 to 1006 MHz. Memory 3004 to 3054. After underclocking my GPU, the 80°c on low goes down to 68°c(!). Sadly taking the automatic options still raise it to 86°c <.< and 99% gpu usage
Strange thing though that NVIDIA Inspector still tells me, that the current clock is 1032 MHz (sometimes it even goes higher i think. Sadly iam not really an expert with overclocking/underclocking stuff <.<
weird i'm running a GTX 770 DA with ultra setting, no MSAA and speccy says GPU at 58°C
My GTX 760 was running at 85C on low settings as well.
Farcry 4 on medium/low settings on gets to 75C
Battlefield 4 on medium/high settings never goes higher than 70C (which is odd, because its frostbite 3)
My temporary solution was to hard cap my framerate with console command to be 30 FPS.
Not only did this make the cutscenes seem less jittery, but it dropped my temps from 85C, down to no higher than 65C.
My theory, this game was optimized to run on consoles at 30 fps. While Bioware didnt lock the game at 30 fps for PCs (probably to avoid bad rep from the gaming community), they also little to no work making sure that the game, running at more than 30 FPS, didnt have any serious issues.
Clearly, a game on ALL LOW settings, shouldnt run THIS hot. Its a sign that there is code making the GPU work harder than it needs to be working.
Only downside to 30 FPS, is that it will occassionally stutter and drop lower than 30, which is jarring to the eye, and not nearly as smooth as 60 fps (which I was running at FINE before, just at 85C temps). HOPEFULLY, a patch will improve things, allow me to uncap the framerate and have the game run at REASONABLE temps for the quality of graphics im setting it to. 85C should only be if im setting things to High/Ultra.
