Re: Overheating problem ?
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Originally Posted by sebbbi
While the low mode graphics is simple, the game can easily render more than 1000 frames per second. The game is optimized to use 100% of your graphics card performance. The simpler settings you use, the more frames the game outputs (so the GPU gets stressed pretty much similarly in all modes). I recommend enabling "wait for vertical refresh" from your graphics card control panel to limit the game frame rate to your monitor refresh rate (usually 60 fps). This way the game will still be perfectly smooth, but does not render more frames than your monitor can output. This way the GPU is utilized much less, and will cause much less heat. It's likely that this change alone will drop your GPU usage and heat so low that the game should run stable.
Re: Overheating problem ?
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Originally Posted by AkaM
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebbbi
While the low mode graphics is simple, the game can easily render more than 1000 frames per second. The game is optimized to use 100% of your graphics card performance. The simpler settings you use, the more frames the game outputs (so the GPU gets stressed pretty much similarly in all modes). I recommend enabling "wait for vertical refresh" from your graphics card control panel to limit the game frame rate to your monitor refresh rate (usually 60 fps). This way the game will still be perfectly smooth, but does not render more frames than your monitor can output. This way the GPU is utilized much less, and will cause much less heat. It's likely that this change alone will drop your GPU usage and heat so low that the game should run stable.
No idea what this means, but i play on Low quality. still overheats my laptop to ****.
Re: Overheating problem ?
Enable "V-Sync" or "wait for vertical refresh" as Sebbi says.
edit: it says that no matter the graphic mode, the game will use as many ressources as possible, and enabling vertical refresh will reduce the load on your hardware.
Re: Overheating problem ?
the vertical sync can be turned off over windows. I have an nvidia and i basicly just have to go to the control panel. At "manage 3D settings" I can see the list with bunch of options such as vertical sync. you might want to check out if you have such control panel too, i remember it was nearly the same on an ATI graphiccard.
try rightclick on your desktop and look it up