NFS Heat Lag and Overheat

Question

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.

ea_barry · Answer

@MegaBladeZX25&nbsp;

80C is not an overly high temperature and certainly shouldn't be shutting off anything.

Check that your display is connected to your GPU and not your motherboard video output
Temporarily disable your antivirus/antimalware software
Install all available Windows Updates
Perform a clean boot before starting the game: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135 or http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/

sjonny30 · Answer

@EA_Barry 80C is a high temperature

sjonny30 · Answer

@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.

wadeeissa09 · Answer

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.

rickdemarte · Answer

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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