Hey everyone...
Just installed STO, put all graphics-settings to max and experienced 100% activity of the graphicscard in the Login screen O_o
Anyone experienced this as well?
Mainboard: Gigabyte EP45-UD3LR
CPU: Q9300
@2,5GHz
RAM: 4GB A-Data
GPU: ATI HD 4870x2
Sound: Onboard
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate
And: My PC restarted after the loading screen to the first space mission... two times. the third time i switched to window mode and no reboot occured..
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As a consequence, the damn thing sounds like I have a jet engine under my desk.
Is this normal? Even Age of Conan all max settings didn't do that.
Normal...?
But even with just 1 going I get the same thing, running at full blast at the logon screen, although the graphics run ok in game, but in all respect, this definately isn't right.
I have a pretty good setup and not even hard graphic intensive games like Modern Warfare 2 make my cards go deep red(Imy cards have coloured LED writing down the side which go from blue[idle] to red[full load])
i7 975 EE(liquid cooled), 12GB RAM, Rampage II Extreme MB and 3x Asus Matrix 285 GTX, Windows 7 64bit,
Interesting - I wonder if this is a problem with dual GPU cards?
Makes me worry a bit though, because no other game does that.
What operating system you guyz running, wondering if it is a Windows 7 bug.
Only the R.U.S.E. beta did the same.
Running on Windows 7 64x
I've had the 100%GPU use and thunderous fan noise, but now its all better. Here's what changed:
Yesterday I uninstalled and deleted the Cat drivers. I then re-installed the latest Cat drivers. I then set everything in CCC to "application controlled" and disabled the intelligent AA. I logged into STO and "WALLAH!" - fan noise back to normal under load, GPU usage 60-90%. Game ran very smoothly on high vid settings w/o shadows but with occlusion and 200% detail.
Maybe the patch changed something. Whatever... the card is now back to normal.
My graphics card is extremely loud the whole time I'm on the login screen. As soon as I log in it's ok (apart from the lack of anti-aliasing).
4870 1GB
Windows 7 x64
Q6600 @ 3GHz
4GB DDR3 1333MHz CL6
OCZ Vertex Turbo SSD 120GB
Thank you VainEldritch,
I updated my drivers to the very latest ones and now the card runs normally
I did not change any settings though, just updated the drivers... even though mine were just a few months old, maybe it was already too much
EDIT:
Eh the fan is still loud... not as much as before but still loud. I hope they fix it
Glad to help .
Oh, and the new Cat drivers are from Dec, I think. Drivers are pain in the kaboose tbh... but this time they certainly did the trick - at least now the entire household does not have to listen to my jet-powered 4870x2
EDIT BECAUSE I READ YOUR EDIT... the card is not the quietest around anyway, and I know a couple of AoC players who replaced the stock fans with a 3rd party system and they say the card is now silent even at 100% load.