I’ve had my share of black screens, with 100% fan noise, having to hard reset my pc several times while playing this game.
Started digging deep - removing PBO on AMD CPU, stock GPU settings (3070), custom fan profiles. Blaming my setup and current room temperatures.
I wasn’t understanding the issue as the “normal” temp readings were all fine.
80% gpu usage, 76C - 67C CPU. Nothing alarming.
It was only when using HWinfo that i got to see the issue:
GPU Hotspot max temperature reads 106°C.
It is 20-30°C higher then the avg GPU temp…
I"ve seen it climb to 105C easily. But didn’t let it go further anymore for obvious reasons.
This game seem to be heating a very local part on the GPU.
And as avg temp is not affected, the usual fan spin-up and throttling doesnt occur.
When it reaches 110°C, safety kicks in, fans go at 100% and system turns off.
Limiting fps to 60 somewhat limits the issue.
Skipping all dialogues and cutscenes and minimizing inventory management is also recommended as you can clearly see the hotspot temp skyrocketing towards 100+C in those scenario’s, even at 60fps.
Yes, good recommendation i think. I’m actually doing that currently while on a trip with my laptop (5600h/3060). I firstly played it native 1080p but in the end i switched to DLSS 1080p (thus rendering 720p) with 25% sharpness, capping to 100fps, and it looks about fine, and the gpu is not going higher than 62° and around 50-55w power consumption.
My two-cents from working in the computer field for years; there’s a 9 in 10 chance it’s your PC’s cooling setup and/or fan speed - and your temps may not accurately reflect what your system is doing. Modern GPUs will essentially soft-kill themselves and cause a driver timeout / system halt that is undetected by Windows other than a loss of power / driver error. You may believe it’s software related, in some cases it is, in most cases it’s not.
Seriously look into what directions your fans are facing, what type of air pressure you have in your build (negative or positive), and the speed curve of your CPU, GPU, and case fans.
ALWAYS overshoot your cooling, don’t stress your system. If fan noise is a concern, look into liquid cooling options.
I built a new PC two weeks ago and the AIO fan rattles lightly when at certain rpm ranges.
In Diablo IV, the rattle comes back reliably whenever I open the inventory, any vendors, any in-game menu etc.
I was thinking the “Load the World” design of Diablo IV was causing my CPU to boost, raising its temperature, which causes the fan to step into a higher rpm…
This is why I water cool and use a MO-RA3 radiator. Never have any cooling issues.
That being said, you should always cap your FPS, it’s sort of dumb not to. I generally cap mine about 15fps over my monitor’s refresh rate. So on a 165hz monitor with Gsync I’ll cap at 180fps and on my 240hz I’ll cap at 255fps. No one needs 1k+fps on some jank loading screen… Even with proper cooling.
If you’re running G-sync use Fast V-sync and set Latency Mode to Ultra. Fast mode drops any frames that go over your monitor’s refresh rate. Do this and you’re gold, my friend.
Edit: Well, if your GPU is powerful enough to push those frames, that is.
i capped my Arc card at 120 and ran the game on 4k monitor and dont see any issues. would suck to spend a ton of money and have the card pop . Hope they fix those broken cards soon
it it’s about inventory window it can be connected to this spaghetti code that prevent them to add more stash - that which LOADS EVERYONE EQ. Maybe it load 3D models of everything like these are in game “on second plane” but rendered or smh. i will not be surprised if it’s the case based on quality of a millionaire company that provides for us game simpler with less content than games from 2006 and below.
About Edit 3 : The issue still exists with vendors & blacksmith menus spiking gpu frequency / power draw / voltage to the max for no (valid) reason, as discussed here :
agree here on this too , But my issue has only been since latest patch , slow invintory opening and of can freeze / 50% chance on dc-ing too if so . on min required pc here atm but can confirm while in game playing infimist necro screen-wide killing over15-20 monsters No lag ever . on another topic cross/play always increases my dc’s by 98% vs solo . nvidia 970 , 8gigs ram [ but have been using stability cleaner for ram to free system ram when needed , For now it was working , hence till new patch .
I have this issue since the beginning. Betas included. Inventory and any vendor menu. I think the culprit is rendering all the portraits, graphical item details and so on. And because of that, it pushes the core clock frequency to maximum possible.
Looks like it. although it’s weird rendering a npc portrait and still items to push resources that high, compared to a busy fight vs 20 mobs and elites with spells, particles flying everywhere to be rendered, wich doesn’t push gpu’s anywhere close on average.
