Been playing and enjoying D2R for the most part, but one thing that is concerning me is the fans in my laptop working overtime, and CPU/GPU temps of 70-75c. And that’s with a 5 fan cooling stand for my laptop, which usually keeps things down about 10c than they would otherwise. So without it that would mean my laptop would be going at 80-85c…the laptop is 1 year old, clean of dust, and I have a 10th gen i5 10300h 2.5ghz 8 cores, a Nvidia GTW 1650 Ti, and I am running the game at 1920x1080, 100 resolution scale, and most graphical settings at medium, with 60 fps cap and target.
So what is going on here? Is this just safe/normal and to be expected? For the record, no other game (I’ve played) does this to my laptop, especially at medium settings. Is there a setting I should look to change to lower my temps here? Or is the game doing something wrong here? Just confused and looking for some answers…thanks!
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70-75c is perfectly fine for gpu and cpu, assuming nothing else is overheating. With as tightly things are packed into laptops and the amount of varying quality between brands, it is quite possible.
I think you are probably ok though.
Edit: what other games were you playing? Did they max out the gpu like D2r does?
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Many others have complained of similar issues (being hotter than standard fare) so it does seem as if it is partially expected and often caused by too much interaction on screen, like the grass blowing in the wind. I’d say lower the environment detail level and see if that makes any difference.
Okay…any idea why the game is running so hot though? Is there something I can change to reduce the temps further? Normally the fans never kick in as much as they do with D2R…I play with headphones so it’s fine, but it’s still disconcerting what is going on. Other games I play are like Dark Souls and Borderlands franchises
Nothing wrong at all with 70-75. D2 seems to run hot for some reason. Hopefully they continue to optimize it
Environmental detail was the biggest thing for my 1080 during the beta. I set that to low and all the swaying grass disappeared, gpu usage went down to 60-80% compared to the 100% locked it was with the grass.
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The game itself is heavily reliant on 3D and vram. With constant stuff happening on the screen often doesn’t have time to cool it down.
The temp most likely are perfectly fine.
Check intel ark website and nvidia website to know the max temp of your Hardware. If you have at least 10°C of difference to max temp you are fine.
Add the fact of new engine and drivers aren’t optimized for the game itself.
Edit, the most demanding zone for me right known is river of flame, there’s a ton of stuff happening there.
It is not normal. Ignore people who can only say that if you don’t hit the GPU temperature limit, that’s fine. D2R heats up GPUs 5-10 ° hotter than other games, and that, by definition, is not normal. And furthermore, it does not offer a visual spectacle on the screen to justify it.
Will those 5-10 ° more burn your GPU? Playing once or 30 no, but without a doubt it wears out the GPU and its components faster than at a normal temperature. People should use their heads, stop saying it’s okay, and demand that Blizzard fix their anomaly.
For now, the only solution is to either limit the FPS or reduce the resolution with the resolution scale (this second option is more effective).
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Thanks, yeah it is kinda unacceptable for sure…how exactly does the resolution scale thing work? What does it even do exactly?
Hello,
No it is not normal, not dangerous though but i don’t like high temp on my hardware.
For me, the GPU run at 50°C at the beginning with a 80% usage, after 10-15min, the temp suddenly rise to 75°C and the usage drop to ±50% with the exact same fps.
It’s a game problem not on our side related.
The only workaround for this is to set the max temp to 65°C in MSI afterburner. That’s what i did and the GPU doesn’t go above 65°C.
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I use MSI Afterburner to reduce the maximum power of the graphics card to 85%.
This game is way too demanding. I don’t see any framedrops or quality drop by doing this
Nvidia 3060
Temps with the limit are around below 70
If the max power was set to 100% originally, you can let it to 100% and put the temp to 65, there is a button to unlink those 2.
Like that, your GPU will have the original power but will boost a little less to not go above 65°C.
The game is not really demanding though, after 10-15 min, the GPU usage drop to 50%, but the temp rise. It’s something wrong in the game itself, hope it’s gonna be patch.
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I will try that, thanks for the tip.
I tried different settings in game but that didn’t help. Limiting the power to the GPU was the only thing that worked for me.
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Learn to undervolt your laptop, thermal paste and additional methods. I run 55-60 degrees average just fine without fan noise, Legion 5.
If you don’t mind messing with your GPU settings, it’s up to you. I don’t want to have to change my GPU settings every time I want to play D2R. This needs to be fixed by Blizzard, not by users.
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I don’t see any difference at all in temps between playing this game and other demanding games.
My 2070 laptop bricked after a D2R crash. I’m in the RMA process now. So I do suspect there’s something going on with this game, like new world.
That being said 90+ Celsius is considered the danger zone and 80c is considered within normal range. Your reported numbers are safe but you are right, something is making our cards work harder than normal!
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You don’t mess with your GPU setting, you tweak it.
You can let the workaround i say for every game, that’s what i did. My GPU doesn’t go above 65°C on any game, and you can make this tweak apply on windows at start, so you don’t need to do it every time.
I don’t like my GPU to go at 75-80°C cause my case is at 30 cm of my arm and 10-15°C more is huge when you’re next to it.
Of course it need to be done by blizzard, i just give a workaround that work for every game though, like that, his laptop will not heat that much.
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