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6 years ago

NFS Heat Lag and Overheat

Hello all. I am having issues with the performance of Need For Speed Heat. There are multiple areas of the game that cause my framerate to plummet, even though I have seen benchmarks of my card running at 60fps on High settings in Youtube videos. Also, my CPU is running at 100% in nearly every area of the game. It is overheating, causing it to shut off at 80C. I have tried every single fix and method to resolve this, and tried every solution on the forum. My specs are down below. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

CPU: Ryzen 3 2200G

GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650

RAM: 16GB DDR4 2666 CL16

EDIT: I think I have found the solution to my problem. I found that in NVIDIA Control Panel, GPU Scaling was enabled for unknown reasons. I disabled it and it gave me the extra frames that I needed. Plus, I repasted my CPU and temps have calmed down.

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  • @MegaBladeZX25 Try replacing the thermal paste on cpu and undust the cooler. Also try to update the motherboard BIOS since ryzen cpu's can have problems on older bios. NOTE: some APU's might not be supported on some motherboards with a new bios, so check the supported cpu list.
  • Hello I have the same issue CPU start to over heat temp reaches 100°c after half an hour the game freeze and the desktop turns off.

    Intel  i710700k

    Gigabyte RTX 2070 8GB

    16GB RAM.

    Assus prime z490-a

    Running the game on the HDD.

  • Looks like NFS Heat are not optomized to PC. So, I found a fix on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuPL-tVYCSI

    Create a file $PATH TO INSTALLATION$\EA\Need For Speed Heat\User.cfg

    Use NotePad and save as "User.cfg" replacing the file type with the ".cfg" (if exists)
    Thread.ProcessorCount 4
    Thread.MaxProcessorCount 4
    Thread.MinFreeProcessorCount 0
    Thread.JobThreadPriority 0
    GstRender.Thread.MaxProcessorCount 4"

    My CPU dropped from 99% usage and 95ºC to 65% and 80ºC in races.

    Worked for me.

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