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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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.
