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Incarna Video Card Performance Fix... for some at least!

Author
neamiah
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2011-11-18 04:26:29 UTC
I think I posted this in the wrong section originally, so hopefully someone can remove the old post in General Discussion.

After an hour of searching forums and blogs about the noisy fans and hot video cards since Incarna's incarnation, I tooled around with every setting one-by-one concerning graphics on the menu. The only thing that put the fans on the GPU at a tolerable db was to change the Present Interval to default. Anything lower would seem to drag.

I love how fast the frame rates are when using the mouse to change views in station (spinning) or in space during combat or mining ops. But default is certainly tolerable and totally changed the noise and temp within about 30 seconds of changing the setting (it took about a minute for the fan noise to level out to about 40%.

I run the game at 1900x1200 on each monitor running two clients or 3840x1200 using EVEMover across both monitors using a single client. It's pain to get set up, but it works great and worth the trouble. Just glad to be playing that way in a quieter room!

So here's my care rig spec - minus the fluff - for reference:

  • Asus P6T Deluxe V2
  • Windows 7 Ultimate x64
  • Core i7 920 (OC @ 3.3GHz)
  • 12GB Corsair XMS3 @ 1600MHz
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 2x SLI
  • 120GB SSD RAID 0
  • Corsair Graphite Series 600T Case

  • Please ping back and tell me the results. Better yet, if you have another solution!! Cool