Dragon age Inquisition --CPU overheating

Not the game, even my air cooled old 8GB, Nividia 9600 computer never overheated with DAI. My liquid cooled i&, 32 GB tops out at 70 with the game.

What I do may be the difference.

I open the case and dust inside my computers once a month.

Shut down and clean vents and fans with SD alcohol once every 4 months.

Inspect the thermal past twice a year, and replace it if needed.

Might be a bit of overkill but, a clean rig is a cool rig, and a cool rig is a happy rig.

I'd give dusting and cleaning a try, and check the thermal paste. Might be that's all it is.

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@DarkAmaranth1966 wrote:

Inspect the thermal past twice a year, and replace it if needed.

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@DarkAmaranth1966 How do you inspect the thermal gel? I would assume by removing the heatsink, but doesn't that mean you'd have to apply new thermal gel regardless?

No you open it up and run a benchmark test w/o air circulating in the room, if you see heat waves, time to pull it apart and replace the paste. At least that's what the professor that helped me on my first build said to do, so I have always done it.

After a while you kind of learn the life of the paste you use so, jsut know it's been long enough, but on a rig with an new brand, or one you didn't build, looking for heat waves is supposedly a good indicator of a problem with the paste.

I just bought a laptop that should have no problems with htese games. but for no reason (CPU and GPU run under 50% all the time) Dragon Age (the first one) and Mass Effect 1 heat up the machine, actually more than when I play BF4 on High graphics. (Lenovo Y700 4gb Nvidia GPU I7 q etc)

trun on vertical sync and direct3d now haw fun with low temps

BTW you can not Inspect the thermal past as soon you take off the cooler you haw to replace it so the right way is to replace twice a year