Is it possible for me to disable the 3d acceleration for the Wrath login/queue screen? The frost dragon flying around is extremely GPU intensive and might be frying my GPU. I am stuck there for over an hour because queues for Benediction are >1 hr. I can feel a massive computer slowdown while waiting in queue even when Wrath is minimized, and checking my Task Manager, GPU use is 100% and temperature is 85 degrees. This is much higher than normal and not only is this preventing me from playing another game while waiting on Wrath queue, I’m afraid it’s degrading my GPU.
Doesn’t the Classic titles keep some of the same Retail graphics settings now? I haven’t been in Classic/BC lately to tell.
I had a problem where the load screen/character select screen would cause coil whine on my card, setting the Max Foreground FPS to 100 solved that. Only those two screens, never actually IN the game (though, that was Retail, not the Classic titles).
I read that the load screen and character select screens are pushing like 1000 FPS because blizz doesn’t throttle them down, so your GPU is trying to render all those frames and can’t handle it.
I used my graphics driver settings to make a maximum frame rate equal to my monitor refresh rate and that helped slightly. GPU usage on login screen is down to about 80%-90% and temp 70-80 degrees. Still, this is much higher than normal- if I can get out of the Wrath login screen and load into Stormwind, my GPU usage goes to 5% and temperature to 50 degrees. I feel like I cannot play Wrath if I am stuck on a queue screen for more than 1 minute out of fear of frying my GPU.
This reminds me of New World frying people’s graphics cards when it was released due to uncapped frame rates. This is a serious issue and Blizzard should look into this as soon as possible.
Cap your frame rate even lower then or set the background FPS limit to something like 8 or w/e the lowest is. This will drop your GPU usage a lot. That, or you can lower the graphics quality level.
And New World wasn’t frying GPUs because GPUs will thermally throttle to prevent going above temperatures. Almost all current market GPUs are made to fully run and function for years at a time 80-90C, just ask the laptop gaming crowd lol… I had a gaming laptop that ran at 85C for just about every single game I played, that I gamed on for seven years. Probably threw 10k hours of 85C at it and only changed the thermal paste once only as a prophylactic measure and right before I stopped using it, I replaced the fan.
At any rate, I do think that Blizzard should give a power saving option for the main menu to just display a still 2D image with no effects, for those who are concerned with power consumption or thermal stress.