POE turning my PC into a oven

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Dkodr wrote:

I use a frame rate limiter to prevent this.

https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/rtss-rivatuner-statistics-server-download.html

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Framerate limiting support. Limiting the framerate during gaming can help to reduce the power consumption as well as it can improve gaming experience due to removing unwanted micro stuttering effect caused by framerate fluctuations.

It is a well known and trusted program. Also totally free.

thanks i will give it a try.

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harddaysnight wrote:

POE cooks my CPU. I have an I7 and that's what gets hot, not the GPU.

When I'm in Windows my CPU is at 36 and GPU is at 26. After 30 seconds in my hideout, the CPU jumps to 51 and GPU jumps to 31. It's a plain hideout with masters, an aura, a herald, a Lightning Golem, and no MTX.

In town with a lot of MTX, the CPU will quickly cross 70. I've seen it approach 90 before. I usually get out of town as fast as I can.

What I don't understand is why it's the CPU getting so hot and not the GPU.

That's the mark of an unoptimized game/lazy software implementation. It uses CPU instead of GPU.

Bake cookies.

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nibas wrote:

That's the mark of an unoptimized game/lazy software implementation. It uses CPU instead of GPU.

it's the mark of a CPU bottleneck. The first i7 was released 11 years ago, saying "I have an i7" doesn't mean a lot when modern lower end processors of today are faster than older generation's i7's

but this game did heat up my computer a lot until I limited the frames. Why on earth I have to use a thid party program for that instead of there being a functional option in-game I just don't understand with any video game

the problem with thinking this is the devs and not the user/computer, is that if it was a problem with the devs and the game and servers and all that, then everyone would be experiencing the issue.

computer parts wear out too ya know. overheating is one of the first signs of a failing part

Could easily have just become detached from it's heat sink... try reattaching it.

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xMustard wrote:

if it was a problem with the devs and the game and servers and all that, then everyone would be experiencing the issue.

So some people have higher end computers. Then those high end computers become toasters because the devs keep pushing it. But when those computers become toasters, someone buys even higher end newer computers. So it's still not the devs fault, because some people don't have that problem. Until the devs push it even more...

It's a never ending cycle. All because the devs constantly push the limit.

*ANY* modern computer is blazing fast. There should never be a need to buy or upgrade a modern computer.

Ten years ago, devs made games that could run on computers from that time. They still can. But they don't. They don't do it by choice. It's 100% on the devs.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Could easily have just become detached from it's heat sink... try reattaching it.

I'll take a look at it. But even if it's detached, it still doesn't explain why it heats so badly in POE and not other games. The only other game I know of that gets so hot is Skyrim when I use a console code to "fly", which isn't normal game play.

Dust it off then, lmao.
I clean mine once a month, it never goes above °60.

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rzuk892 wrote:

Dust it off then, lmao.

That's what I do. I play another game and the dust suddenly disappears. Pretty amazing game code that makes dust disappear.