Game either crashes or overheats

[SirDuck]

This isn't making much sense. When I launch the game, I either get a D3D error that crashes it. Or the thing raises my temperature from 25c to it's cutoff (90c). I don't have weak parts, especially for a 2008 game. The CPU is liquid cooled and the GPU is having both it's voltage and fans controlled by afterburner. This is the only game to do this, and in under 10 mins! What's going on here?

[ant_sh]

Originally posted by SirDuck:

This isn't making much sense. When I launch the game, I either get a D3D error that crashes it. Or the thing raises my temperature from 25c to it's cutoff (90c). I don't have weak parts, especially for a 2008 game. The CPU is liquid cooled and the GPU is having both it's voltage and fans controlled by afterburner. This is the only game to do this, and in under 10 mins! What's going on here?

In general it is better to not override default voltage and fan curves unless you are absolutely sure you know what you are doing. I run 80 mV undervolted rx580 and it rarely goes above 80c. You need to provide more info - CPU, GPU, driver, what temperature are you talking about, what exactly is in your D3D9 error (it may be driver specific), also what CPU and GPU loads you usually have in GTAIV.

[SirDuck]

I can't check loads and the specific crash message for you right now but its a GTX 1070 and an i7-8700 6 cores @3.2GHz. It's not a great PC but it can run anything made before 2021.

And like I said, gta 4 is pushing the system to the temperature cutoff. Which would be around 90c. This isn't normal for the system, even highly intense games like Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 with an uncapped framerate only bring the thing to 55c. GTA 4 is finding a way to do it with vsync on.

And don't worry about my fan curves and voltage settings, i've set them up correctly. The fan speeds are set to aggressively cool the gpu above 35c and the voltage never goes over the limit.

[ant_sh]

Originally posted by SirDuck:

And like I said, gta 4 is pushing the system to the temperature cutoff. Which would be around 90c.

Are you talking about CPU temperature? GTA is CPU demanding but your CPU should handle it easily with load below 50% and GPU should be loaded at 90-100%.
You should run OCCT to find out what max CPU and GPU temperatures you may expect under heavy load.

[SirDuck]

I used the first two mods in this guide and the problem has been solved: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=921826093

CPU usage now sits at 30%, GPU between 30-60%. Temperature of GPU is still unreasonable for a 13 year old game, going from 35c in the menu's to up to 60c ingame, with rapid heating and cooling to those temps if you pause or get a loading screen.

But at least it's nowhere near the limit anymore, let alone setting it off.

Judging by how fast the GPU heats up, the mod doesn't seem to fix the issue at hand, it just calms it down to where modern parts can brute force it.

[ant_sh]

Any heavy load from any game should never get the temperature over the limit. The mere fact that you experienced that means you have something wrong with O/C, cooling/case fans or your custom voltages and fan curves and you may still want to look into this. It is good that FusionFix-ed shader helped but in the end I don't think the game was to blame for overheating.

[Rastamaniac]

I know this is an old post, but for anyone who is experiencing the overheating issue, go to NVIDIA control panel ---> Manage 3D settings ---> Program settings ---> Select GTAIV.exe and then select max FPS to 58. This reduced my CPU temperature by 20 degrees celsius.