I think only well optimized software can heat hardware like stress tests. For example Linpack, it’s just a well optimized library sometimes used as a stress test. The game has good optimization, but it also has some problems.
There are many blocks in a GPU that cannot be engaged at the same time or the chip will melt down. The problem of idle parts is called “dark silicon”.
Here is an example of this problem.
I solved my huge gap between avg temps and hotspot by replacing thermal paste on my gpu.
Now i’m seeing 72°C max temp with max hotspot at 83°C.
Only had a short test-session.
The delta between both temps is only 10° now instead of 30-ish…
This game just happened to push my card hard enough for me to identify the root cause.
It looks like you may have a defective video card or the air flow in your case is sub-optimal. At constant 100% usage if the fans are working properly it shouldn’t go higher than 80-82C.
There is definitely an issue with the game in terms of UI that does increase the load percentage but temperature is on your side. I’d open the case and make sure the fans are all working and maybe leave the side panel off see if it helps. That would be the main concern, get your temperature under control if possible otherwise it would be the card itself.
Anyone know if upgrading to Windows 11 helps? My friend and I have very similar PC builds and he has no issues with crashing. The only difference really is he upgraded to Win 11 and im still on Win 10
I have windows 11 and crash every 10-15 minutes since season 1. So don’t get Windows 11 thinking that will help unless you just want to get Windows 11 for different reasons.
What I noticed so far of all the measures I took is that If my laptop is not plugged in, meaning limited on power source, I have no issue.
The moment I plug in and open the inventory tab. Temps immediately start raising, fans go BRRRRRR and eventually a crash.
What concerns me is that despite of all the measures I took to limit the power plan, its like the GPU is ‘’ if I have the power I am going to use it to render this bad inventory textures "
Please advise how to override all of the settings and undervolt this, before I burn my perfectly well working and new hardware. (adding this for all the posts about having a defective hardware… - no, its new, and it works well under far more pressure from games allegedly more demanding than D4, its just that D4 is that badly optimised)
The easiest way is to lower the TDP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_design_power
You have a problem with perfectly good working and new hardware? This is some kind of joke. Gaming laptops are a joke and marketing. Rare models of laptops can be called gaming laptops and you probably won’t buy them because of their price and weight.
Usage and temperature are linked. Some models are just hotter. There is NO reason why your GPU should gain 15C in temperature when you open the menu. It’s just insanely bad.
Yes, that’s true. But there could be a bunch of places in the game where you could have that load variance, and there would be a good reason for it, and everything would be fine. But you’ll have the same problem, you’ll just have a good reason.
It is absolutely absurd that a game with this low amount of visuals (let’s say compared to a lot of other games out there) and even in town that this game takes up even more than 6 gb of vram… Let alone 16gb of VRAM even with high textures… that is just plain bad coding or very LAZY coding of assets.
I’ve just noticed pretty much every other thread regarding this issue was closed and consolidated into this thread by Blizzard on June 6, and yet they are still to give us any update or action regarding it. Trying to cover up the threads as to just ignore one perhaps, it seems that way, unlike what one would hope - consolidating to actually gather information and update the people this is affecting.
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So I deleted the config file in documents and turned off peripheral effects and it seemed to extend the duration between crashes from 15-20 mins to 2 hours.
me every time my inventory is full and i have to select/sell stuff:
aaaah yes lets waste some precious energy, lets produce some unnecessary heat !
I love the revving of my gpu fans in the morning!
BTW Blizzard if you read this … FU I have been patient enough. I’m not even demanding this to be fixed immediately, just that you acknowledge this as an actual problem. How hard can it be? Just tell us, yes this is a know issue, we don’t know when we will have the capacity to address this, but we will take care of it eventually.
Stop hiding behind "additional stability problems (that MIGHT have affected a MINORITY of players… especially those pesky demanding PC folks…) This affects literally everyone with with capable hardware. its unnecessary, its inefficient, its dumb… just like the “load the stash of all players around you… sorry we cant give you more stash cuz of memory issues” thingy
I’m really wondering if the problem might be that finding skilled programmers might have become an issue for Blizzard after all the stuff going on in the recent years… I guess you need to actually increase salaries, cuz the “I could earn more somewhere else but its Blizzard I work for” is not gonna cut it anymore
This may be the art director’s vision rather than a technical problem. And that’s the way it was originally intended. And to ignore the majority is unwise. So I’m going to assume that the problem simply doesn’t exist.
Here’s circumstantial evidence that the problem doesn’t exist.
You’re wrong. I don’t have a blue account. I regret that very much. If I did, I’d probably get fired for it.
I’m just a simple gamer. And I want games to work well as well as hardware. I just don’t think that hardware manufacturers should relax. And that the problem is mostly in the hardware part.
I’m just waiting for bg 3 to come out and hope it can be played normally. But I don’t believe in it.
