Neverwinter Online Overheating GPU

pprandom

I ve been playing NWO almost since release, alway though that my pc was the problem so i did some "tests" with diferent games to see how it works now that i installed some coolers and stuff. This games are a bit more old than NWO though.
I have an ati7950, 8 ram, I7 intel and the pc is fairly new (not much dust and stuff).
The temperatures i got were this:

Skyrim(all maxed) 69º
Saints Row 2(all maxed) 71º
Fallout 3(same) 66º
Dead Rising 2 70º
Starcraft 2(video sets in extreme) 71º
Neverwinter Online(maxing the slide bar for graphic quality, not using custom preferences) 75-78º

I played them for 15 minutes each trying to force the graphics, like the water, reflections, lots of 3D models at the same time, etc. Most of this games had an AA of 16x while NWO has only 4x (that s what shows in the custom preferences when activated), plus most things weren t maxed out (like distances and such).
Maybe it s just me, but when hardware is involved like that, it can be quite dangerous.

melodywhr

safe temp for the 7950 is 80º, although running it for long periods at that temperature are probably not recommended.

having a fairly new computer doesn't mean that it's getting adequate airflow. is this a custom built computer? how many cooling fans do you have on the case? are you using a push/pull method? are you overclocking your GPU? what temperatures does it run on a burn-in test?

pprandom

5 fans + micro cooler and the gpu fan. The thing is even though NWO is newer than those games, graphically is on a similar level, and it s causing around 7º more than the other games. If all the games had a similar Tº i wouldn t even posted here.

ambisinisterr

That does seem a bit on the warm side but airflow is king and those temps are well within normal.

However the R9 series, rebranded 7000 series GPU's, purposely try to run at 80-90 degrees. AMD says it is safe. Not sure I like that but at the end of the day Neverwinter is certainly stressing your GPU more but it is not 'overheating' it. Not with those numbers.

tripsofthrymr

Neverwinter does seem to work much harder for a graphic quality similar to other games I play.

Not sure what it is. Never have trouble on my desktop, but my Origin gaming laptop struggles to render certain zones at a half-way playable rate. The laptop fans kick in at full speed within a minute of starting Neverwinter, whereas with my other games they run intermittently.

My guess is that the graphics engine could use some tuning.

hetz000

Im using asus nvidia gtx670 and my temperature stays in between 66-69 after hours and hours of play.My guess would be that the problem could be drivers and not the game itself.

krailov

All good points above. As an IT repair person, I would suggest applying the latest driver from the AMD/ATI website as they are constantly tweaking things, especially if you only installed from the CD. The other games also may not be using all the RAM of the GPU, and that could be a factor in the temp delta.

canmann

pprandom wrote: »

I ve been playing NWO almost since release, alway though that my pc was the problem so i did some "tests" with diferent games to see how it works now that i installed some coolers and stuff. This games are a bit more old than NWO though.
I have an ati7950, 8 ram, I7 intel and the pc is fairly new (not much dust and stuff).
The temperatures i got were this:

Skyrim(all maxed) 69º
Saints Row 2(all maxed) 71º
Fallout 3(same) 66º
Dead Rising 2 70º
Starcraft 2(video sets in extreme) 71º
Neverwinter Online(maxing the slide bar for graphic quality, not using custom preferences) 75-78º

You are not the only one to observe this. I have gamed on laptops for many years now and have had no real issues. Some where around release of module 2, Neverwinter became unplayable on my i7 laptop with discrete graphics. Within 15 minutes it pushed the GPU temps sky high and would shut the system down. The laptop was 2ish years old so was the push I needed to purchase a new laptop. I went with a MSI GS70 figuring a specific built gaming laptop would help. It doesn't, I needed to buy an external cooler for the laptop or the the fans just run full blast (it doesn't shut the machine down but the fans run on full).

The only other game my laptops have struggled on was City of Steam (have not tried the new system as I quit playing long time ago).

So as you observed, I think there is some tweaking that can be done on the game but I won't hold my breath that it gets done.

Cheers!

nwodsolz

I never have issue with graphics for neverwinter till module 2.
What I did to resolve the issue is to set direct x to recommended. Make sure it is not using direct x 9.
I also reduce shadow and reflection which helps to reduce the lag caused by icy terrain cast by control wizards.

loboguild

These are known issues with ATI cards. DX11 has major problems with anti-aliasing and you wanna deactivate shadow and set max physics debris objects to 0.