Elon Musk’s fact checker should be in this thread, as the thread title creates an horrendously false picture.
This game is optimized extremely well and I’m on good hardware from 2018.
Someoen’s multi tasking and blaming it on D4.
I have a Ryzen 7 7800X3D and a MSI RTX 4080 and my temps were comparable to what you see in this video. 53°C-CPU/58°C-GPU
https://youtu.be/4f0ClEiWg14
You might try shutting off apps running in the background and also set your power plan to performance.
So I still have my old potato, i5-3750K with a GTX 970 in it. It ran D4 just fine at 1080 maintaining 60FPS on medium.
My current rig i9-10900K and a 3080 was able to be stable at 4K 60FPS, 2K 144FPS, and 1080 144FPS all on ultra/high. Somethings not right on your end.
in the past some bliz games had the tendency to overheat some builds because of fps not being limited in some situations (for example, in menu screens) and that tending to burn through some graphic cards after making them basically go through the roof in the attempt to display always more fps. first thing i did w d4 both in beta and server slam, was going to check the dedicated voices and limit fps to 60 and background to 8. it played fine and smooth at 1080 on an old msi gaming notebook for hrs, never going even moderately high in temperature.
Capping FPS to your desired level is the best way to control temps. if you have a 144hz monitor and use g-sync or freesync just cap your FPS to 141. It will lower your temps and stay within working range of VRR.
Theres no reason for your GPU to stay full tilt with uncapped FPS. Games are not 3DMark. If you play at 4K and need all the FPS you can get then that is a different thing.
I think the problem with cutscenes is they for some odd reason in the Server Slam limited them to 30 FPS. In the previous betas than ran at higher FPS and seemed less laggy.
console ports often struggle with overclocked hardware. that can explain the struggles on strong high end systems.
Reduce it and most of your problems are gone. Saw this optimisation problems with a lot of console ports, so my guess this is what happened here too. Until blizzard patches it ofcourse.
factually wrong on all accounts
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Someone doesn’t have a clue what they are talking about…
To be fair to you there are a lot of people here that don’t have a clue what they are talking about so I guess congrats.
Sure mate. I have a 5 year old $300 walmart laptop. I can play D4 at low setting with 30 FPS. This potato doesn’t even have a dedicated GPU. I’m doing fine. If you’re not multi tasking, someone is using your computers for cryto mining.
People like you are exactly why people hate blizzard games. Nice work.
Apart from the memory leak in the first beta, ran exeptionally well for me.
More or less. Still doens’t explain why your PC are having performance issues. Because for sure, D4 isn’t eating up the PC resources.
The first beta I would have agreed, my PC would get super hot and the fan would go nuts. Even shut off but they did something for nvidia cards cuz this past server slam it didn’t do that. So they def did something, I’m sure they will continue to optimize all the video cards
I’m running a 5 year old Asus Strix with just the 4GB Nvidia 1050 and had no heat or performance issues at all.
Latest beta definitely much much much more optimized. Reduce texture pack if you’re experiencing issues. Haven’t exceeded 55° C
Set max frame rate in your video card all better as this game just like NW early on does not have the game fps limiter working right
Setting max frames doesn’t do much compared to actually reducing quality settings. You’ll get more FPS with lower settings, which in turn uses less watts, ram, etc than a game maxed out on settings
Haven’t seen any issues throughout the first and second open beta. Though the first open beta actually did give me some discrepant warnings beforehand by some youtubers. So I did fine tune my Nvidia settings so it didn’t run extra hard for absolutely no reason. Think about what New World caused when it first launched. So, I limited some settings on purpose, turned off pointless ones, forced some on, etc, etc…
Going into those two open betas, the first one only suffered due to server issues, the lag hitching and causing disconnects. The second open beta is a substantial improvement where that only ever happened so little that its easy to forget about it. The overall optimization of the game is very good IMO. So I cannot imagine what you’ve done behind the scenes that isn’t within the game settings.
With my system:
Ryzen 7 3800x, RTX 3080ti, 32gb RAM, All SSD storage.
Something to note what helped a lot since is changing my PC case to the Corsair Airflow 7000D with all Noctua CPU heatsink and fans (3 front intake, 3 side intake, 2 top exhaust, 1 back exhaust). As this had tremendous performance that kept everything cool. This setup has ran cool the entire time during the two betas for sure. Although I wasn’t running 4k, let alone 1440p but every setting is all set to high and haven’t been dropping below 60fps, especially during Ashava fights. So I don’t truthfully have room to say I ran into performance issues that forced me to tweak anything.
So, its hard to imagine what issue there is with yours. Perhaps dust cluttered? Bad drivers? Bad PC placement (Can’t express this part enough, airflow too important)?