Care to not fry your graphics card.

[Ganossa]

Be careful running this game in the current state.
It is beautiful and it runs smooth but after having occasional audio stutters (that are usually indicators that something is going wrong) your system is heating up more and more until it ultimately crashes.
At least my short term experience and I am not wanting to find out if this happens again.

[Ganossa]

Originally posted by Scornful:

I am running a Ryzen 7 5800x and RTX 3080 on Ultra settings in 4k and my GPU temp is consistently at 70c. It's definitely slightly hotter than usual but nothing close to causing a pc crash. You need a better case and/or more fans.

The heat is not the issue other than -as you stated- it being higher than expected if compared to other titles that run on the same system.
The problem is the audio-stutter and the following crash which suggests me to not keep it running.

Originally posted by 321-:

You always have this type of threads on every game thats a little more intensive. Games do NOT cause issues. They at best expose issues that were already there. It's just software. If your PC or gpu overheats, then you have a cooling problem. End of story. It's not something wrong with the game. A properly setup PC will never, at any point, have issues with any game regarding cooling

I agree, I do see those posts on many games but it usually does not affect me. It is the first game in fact where this happened.
The system has no cooling problem as its not getting hotter but shuts down at a point but it is still hotter than expected.
If the system had a cooling problem, I wouldn't be able to run more demanding games at much lower temp.

Other than this probably not being only a overheating issue, I disagree that if you never have a cooling problem in any game but in that one game you suddenly have, that its obviously your system's fault. Logically, it would mean that there are so many examples that show you do not have a problem with cooling that it points to the game instead.
Anyhow, it wasn't getting as hot as 80 for sure, but it was higher than it should have been imo and also resulted in a system crash and audio stutter.

[Sunny Senpai]

Originally posted by 321-:

You always have this type of threads on every game thats a little more intensive. Games do NOT cause issues. They at best expose issues that were already there. It's just software. If your PC or gpu overheats, then you have a cooling problem. End of story. It's not something wrong with the game. A properly setup PC will never, at any point, have issues with any game regarding cooling

But it is true though. I never saw my GPU rise to temps than usual and it has nothing to do with the cooling. Another example is NFS Heat which makes your GPU draw much more power than other games, it is just a software but it can happen and there will be variations.

[Kleerex]

Originally posted by 321-:

You always have this type of threads on every game thats a little more intensive. Games do NOT cause issues. They at best expose issues that were already there. It's just software. If your PC or gpu overheats, then you have a cooling problem. End of story. It's not something wrong with the game. A properly setup PC will never, at any point, have issues with any game regarding cooling

Indeed. Yesterday I was playing Cyberpunk 2077 and noticed that after about 5 minutes my PC just shuts off. I then monitored CPU temperature and GPU usage. The CPU was going well over 100C before causing shutdown, and GPU was constantly at 100% even outside games. It turned out that my CPU fan was too weak, I had to turn off Turbo Boost because fan couldn't handle the heat caused by it. As for 100% GPU usage, GPU hardware Scheduling was the culprit. I fixed both issues, now everything runs fine and smooth. Even this game.

If you have issues like CPU or GPU cooking off, it's not game's fault. It's a sign that something is wrong with your setup.

Originally posted by RetinaBurn:

Originally posted by Ganossa:

I have VSync on, so it should be capped at 60

VSync doesn’t cap your framerate, it just tosses every frame above 60. That’s why frame limiter became a thing in recent years. If the game doesn’t have a frame limiter force it via GPU driver/tools.

An even better option is to buy a monitor that supports G-Sync/FreeSync and Variable Refresh Rate. Games will be smooth even without Vsync on such monitor.

[Ganossa]

Originally posted by Kleerex:

As for 100% GPU usage, GPU hardware Scheduling was the culprit. I fixed both issues, now everything runs fine and smooth. Even this game.

If you have issues like CPU or GPU cooking off, it's not game's fault. It's a sign that something is wrong with your setup.

GPU is capped at 80% power and temp at 78.
Fans can run at 100% as I have tested and GPU was originally fine at 85 degree even but I do not need 100% power for any current gen game, so I keep it at 80% to keep it alive longer.

[JC]

Folks with that might suspect heat issues, a really nice and easy to use free program out there is called Speccy, It's made by the same folks that make CCleaner which is another solid free program. The second one has a driver tool that can flag out of date drivers which is nice. It really helps on those drivers that are not on your mind, like an old .net or some other random windows or intell file that that can be harder to trackdown outside of them being flagged outright as being out of date.

On the heat side, if your using fans clean um every couple of years (unlike when i slacked in my next reply :P It can be a pain, but every 2 or 3 years pulling off your heatsink or even liquid cooler and some new paste is worth it.

Originally posted by 321-:

You always have this type of threads on every game thats a little more intensive. Games do NOT cause issues. They at best expose issues that were already there. It's just software. If your PC or gpu overheats, then you have a cooling problem. End of story. It's not something wrong with the game. A properly setup PC will never, at any point, have issues with any game regarding cooling

Same thing happened to me playing Battletech a few years ago, It was the only game that caused my machine to race, and even playing a heavy CPU game like MWO didn't cause it. One day my comp did an emergency shut down and i decided to take a look and it had been way to long since i cleaned it lol. A quick cleaning, some new paste and i was back to silent running.

Originally posted by RetinaBurn:

Originally posted by Ganossa:

I have VSync on, so it should be capped at 60

VSync doesn’t cap your framerate, it just tosses every frame above 60. That’s why frame limiter became a thing in recent years. If the game doesn’t have a frame limiter force it via GPU driver/tools.

You know i always seen people say this and never knew what it actually did. I knew it stopped from things racing but not exactly how it went about it. Thanks for increasing my Knowledge! Personally i've never had something race like that and heat up, but at least nice to know how and why it works.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by JC:

Originally posted by RetinaBurn:

VSync doesn’t cap your framerate, it just tosses every frame above 60. That’s why frame limiter became a thing in recent years. If the game doesn’t have a frame limiter force it via GPU driver/tools.

You know i always seen people say this and never knew what it actually did. I knew it stopped from things racing but not exactly how it went about it. Thanks for increasing my Knowledge! Personally i've never had something race like that and heat up, but at least nice to know how and why it works.

This isn't how Vsync works. Vsync synchronises your GPU's frame buffer with your displays refresh cycle. So if you're running at 60htz, your GPU creates a frame, sends it to the frame buffer, then waits 16.67ms before sending the next frame knowing that's exactly when the display is going to ask for it, that way, there's never a half finished fame in the buffer when the monitor refreshes.

The reason we have fps caps is because Vsync is latency heavy because the frames pass through multiple frame buffers, fps caps can help reduce latency.

[stardust]

Originally posted by Ganossa:

Originally posted by Kleerex:

As for 100% GPU usage, GPU hardware Scheduling was the culprit. I fixed both issues, now everything runs fine and smooth. Even this game.

If you have issues like CPU or GPU cooking off, it's not game's fault. It's a sign that something is wrong with your setup.

GPU is capped at 80% power and temp at 78.
Fans can run at 100% as I have tested and GPU was originally fine at 85 degree even but I do not need 100% power for any current gen game, so I keep it at 80% to keep it alive longer.

Your cooling is the cause, end of story. 99% GPU usage in one game isn't different in another, I hope you have enough logic to grasp that.

EDIT: What kind of sh!ty GPU do you have when you get 78c on 80% GPU usage.
My old 2080ti at 99% usage being heavily overclocked 170 on core and 1300 on memory with the power limit increased to 125% max out at 69c, there is that.

[Ganossa]

Originally posted by d.css:

Your cooling is the cause, end of story. 99% GPU usage in one game isn't different in another, I hope you have enough logic to grasp that.

EDIT: What kind of sh!ty GPU do you have when you get 78c on 80% GPU usage.
My old 2080ti at 99% usage being heavily overclocked 170 on core and 1300 on memory with the power limit increased to 125% max out at 69c, there is that.

Its not the cooling cause cooling is fine under load but the load is higher than expected, hence the increased temp.
How often, CP77 runs even with RT and no DLSS with ~62 average temp (that crappy GPU?) which should be much more taxing than APT:R without any RT.
No need to overclock for me cause I got high end equipment that is far above anything needed for current gen games. Rather save life span and energy.

On top of that, the audio stutter is unexpected and usually hints me that there is some real issue -and no, it does not happen with other games, same for the system crash.
Temp alone is not high enough to cause a system crash.

[Pantera Cor de Xota]

Originally posted by Sunny Senpai:

Originally posted by Padre Melman:

Yeap! But mostly the games I play with max graphics it's always around 80ºC. Anything above that is really weird for me.

Yikes! I never heard of a 18C increment from usual gpu temps, just from a game.

Is ur gpu perhaps pumping out more frames like 80+? Maybe put an fps cap on it like at 60 from nvidia control panel. Try it out and see if there's any difference?

I had VSync on, it wasn't past 60FPS, even if it was running at 30FPS most of the time. It's really weird.

but now that you mentioned, I should try and control the FPS trough the AMD Adrenaline.

I had a similar problem when Cyberpunk2077 was released, too much heat just from one game. After a few updates the temperature was fine.

[Spasti]

my 3080 is running at 57c 99% utilisation so probably a cooling issue and nothing else.