Issues, Workarounds & Localization

So my Nvidia 295gtx was burning up when I was docked in station. Look at my gauges and said my gpu was running at 89-93% out side of station said i was running at 83-88% All my settings were turned to high, and running at a 1600x900 fixed window.


I tried every thing and couldn't get the stress on my gpu lower by much. Will I saw that interval option, I turned it off immediate to default, and now I'm running eve at all high settings, and max aa, resource cache enabled, hdr. Everything on at only 20% load to my system in station. Its running less of a load when I'm flying around.

Also the fix worked on my brothers ati card. He went from 85-95% loads to 38% loads.

Anyone tell me whats up with this?

An if anyone else is having a heating issue try this.

What Mr Kidd said, basically if you are rendering at a FPS greater than your monitors refresh rate, you will get screen tearing and force the GPU to work harder than it should really. Enabling V-Sync in games (Interval default in EVE) will help ease your GPU's strain. There can also be a lot of other explanations, but this one is the most common.

V-sync is a way, to remove screen tearing, when your graphic card renders to many frames per second, this is usually 60 fps, since that is the most common refresh rate on a monitor.

It is not designed to reduce heat or reduce workload on your computer - This only happens to be the case, because of the physical limit that your graphic card is locked at (60 fps).

V-sync is not without consequences tho. Usually your performance drops like a stone in water, and it's often the case, that it give such a degradation, that even if you run your game at 60 fps before you had v-sync on, you're probably looking at 20-30 fps after you enable it.
Another very annoying side effect is that the rotation of your camera, becomes "wierd" This is also seen in fps games, where the movement just becomes unprecise and slow.

Just try and test, with and without, you'll notice a very significant different, in how your camera behaves.

Usually enabling triple-buffing can reduce those side effects, there might be other tools aswell i'm not aware off..

I'll add that 90 degrees under full load is too hot for a 285. I suggest that your cooler is either blocked, airflow is poor, or the thermal contact between your GPU and it's cooler is poor. I just upgraded from a 295GTX to a 580. On either card I'd start to be alarmed at seeing even 80 degrees.

I use "EVGA Precision" to modify the fan speed ramp. Make it taller, so your fan is 100% by 70 degrees celcius. I play BF3 @1200 on "Ultra/High" settings and the card is always max load, it'll be around the 70 degree mark.

I understand that fixes mentioned above can help alleviate the problem, but it's not the CAUSE of your problem. They are correct in saying you can reduce your GPU load to lower temps, but it's the same as staying off your feet because you have a splinter. It's easier to remove the splinter and you can then run at full pace again.

This is akin to Starcraft 2 "overheating everyone's videocards" as it was reported. It turned out the menu screen wasn't frame rate limited so your card would run at 100%. While Blizzard conceded thet had made an error, it wasn't an error which would kill a card unless the card had other underlying issues, such as poor cooling etc. The next demanding game they bought was going to kill their card anyways.

The thermal solution designed for your card should manage 100% load indefinately. Computers shouldn't need to 'rest' or be 'turned down' in order to remain cool enough to operate, not unless you're overclocking, etc.

Ultimately, your CPU + GPU + everything else should be able to run at it's max rated speed and load, and not overheat, or reach temps like that, indefinately. Can of compressed air will do wonders and you'd be darn surprised how much crap gets blown out.

Cheers.

There's a bottleneck in your system somewhere. I've only ever ran into this issue when I was overly extending the life of an old computer. I upgraded to a new gpu. The GPU did increase gaming performance but it never reached it's full potential because the CPU would hit 100% utilization during certain, intensive games.

So it's possible that your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU.