Hi,
yesterday the game crashed, Windows 10 froze too, and I had to reboot. Didn’t happen before, I must say that I find the game stable and generally without problems.
After reboot the game start required “scan and repair”, which I did, after which I was able to start the game and play.
But since then the game randomly starts to heat up the GPU fast, noticable because the graphic card fans become very loud quickly.
To identify the problem I started the Windows Task Manager, at the bottom of the “Performance” tab is a monitor for GPU temperature, and sure it was up. But I also noticed that because now the Task Manager was in the foreground, the GPU cooled down fast.
I have limited the foreground FPS to 60, and the background FPS to 8, and I think thats what is cooling down the GPU, switching to the Task manager puts D4 in the background and the frame rate goes down.
The foregound framerate seems to randomly ignore my setting and shoots up. After switching to Task manager, and then back to the game, the frame rate seems normal, no overheating, till it happens some time later at random again.
My graphic card is a Nvidia GTX 1650 (non super), and after it happend the first time I downloaded the new nvidia driver 535.98 for it, but no change.
Now, an internet search shows me that I am not the only one with this problem ( google search: diablo 4 overheating gpu ), and it might be already fixed in one of the latest patches, and that brings me to my second issue.
Edit: just found out about Ctrl-R to display FPS. The randomly occuring overheating ist not caused by FPS going up, my FPS stays stable. I noticed that the overheating is unrelated to fights, it seems to me it happens more often when in town.
Edit: for me the ingame setting “Low FX” under Graphics seems to have done the trick. Since activating that, GPU temperature stays low.
- Tomas