My Graphics Card is Screaming

[John Redcorn]

Hi!

My GPU isn't any slouch, I can run this game just fine - but I did notice something... my PC turns into a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Jet Engine the moment I hit the main menu.

I run AMD, my buddies mostly run NVIDIA, and everyone I've spoken to has dealt with this.

Now like I said, the game runs fine, it looks great and I think it's kinda fun! But I'm hard pressed to play a game that doesn't need to be on such an intensive engine. You could've built this in ANY engine! It's not a complex game, the graphics are nice but could have easily been achieved on almost any other engine.

I want to continue playing, but the thought of my GPU cooking itself because of Fortnite Graphics with pretty lighting is making me want to throw up. Every single time the game gets quiet (anytime I enter a building), all I can ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hear is my GPU's fans.

I actually really do enjoy this game, but I struggle to play it because I value my computer's ability to live for another year or so! I'll definitely be putting more time into it at some point, but as it stands I want to enjoy other games before this one destroys my GPU. If someone has a quick fix, please let me know!

Just a reminder : THIS IS JAGEX! They made OSRS, which can be played on ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anything. Makes me wonder what kind of computers they use to play that.

[Sin]

for real. ue5 looks amazing on video renders but actual gameplay on it has been a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ terrible experience for every game ive played

[Pancakes]

yeah its rough as hell even with FSR Frame Gen

[gallows]

it defaults to infinite frames. i dropped 20 degrees on my gpu by locking 60 fps.
i dont know why they dont give us all the video settings, instead they took some away lol

[Boba Fitt]

Idk what they did but i couldnt play it, had to refund it, i buy it later when its fixed. A rtx4070 barely makes 50fps on this game in 1440p and dlss quality. This is another UE5 nightmare, how is it that black myth wukong looks photorealistic and has better perfromance than Dragonwilds?

[Supreme Emperor Lord As Asriel]

I think sometimes the way they make the game like design (not engine) of the layout, textures sometimes they might not have much choice when using something else may not make it look like up to standards. you said it looks nice well that may be why its nice cause their using that type of engine, but using another engine would might not be ideal.

[Supreme Emperor Lord As Asriel]

lower your graphics to low, doesn't really make a different with my pc.

[KiwiBoyle]

i have a 4050 and a AMD ryzen 5 7000 series 16gb ram, got to the part to collect water and temps got to 90c-100c. all graphics are on low and capped fps to 60. still its cooking lol refuned. for example i play GTARP on high settings no problem

[John Redcorn]

Publicado originalmente por Supreme Emperor Lord As Asriel:

lower your graphics to low, doesn't really make a different with my pc.

It feels like that's a common thing with UE5 games. Adjusting the graphics settings rarely impacts anything, especially how much it's using up your card.

Publicado originalmente por gallows:

it defaults to infinite frames. i dropped 20 degrees on my gpu by locking 60 fps.
i dont know why they dont give us all the video settings, instead they took some away lol

I tried this, and while it works just fine - the GPU still screams like hell! That's my primary concern!

Publicado originalmente por KiwiBoyle:

i have a 4050 and a AMD ryzen 5 7000 series 16gb ram, got to the part to collect water and temps got to 90c-100c. all graphics are on low and capped fps to 60. still its cooking lol refuned. for example i play GTARP on high settings no problem

It seems like plenty of other folks with beefy builds face these issues! UE5 is a bad move, whenever I see a game coming out on this engine I tend to tune it out.

On the note of it looking nice - I argue this. I've seen Unity Demos that look exactly as this game does that are old asfk. This entire game could have been made in UE4, in Unity, probably GoDot with enough elbow grease! It's not making use of the intense engine it's running on, there's literally no point to it. It just feels like a choice based on a trend.

[ThompsonLizz]

I love this game, or I really want to, but it made my fans go INSANE, my cars go to 80 degrees and its clearly an optimization problen because you look at the cards usage graphics and its SPIKED AS ♥♥♥♥, last games i played in 1440p (I have a 3070) are AC Shadows and Kingdom Come perfectly fine so I don't think its a me problem LMAO

I had to refund. I'll buy this again when it's actually complete... Gaming status sucks. A game comes out and you have to wait 1 month so its actually finished and playable...

[Cosmic]

Ditto with the 5080, 100% usage, 80 degree temps, DLSS and FG enabled, frames capped to 120, v-sync on and its still full throttle, high temps, fans full whack etc.

Refunded too until they fix it, shame too I was enjoying the game, was not enjoying the sauna my room became though.

[Barracuda]

Publicado originalmente por KiwiBoyle:

i have a 4050 and a AMD ryzen 5 7000 series 16gb ram, got to the part to collect water and temps got to 90c-100c. all graphics are on low and capped fps to 60. still its cooking lol refuned. for example i play GTARP on high settings no problem

how is your card hitting that high? there should be a thermal limit of 85c before it throttles you.

[jeremyb616]

Publicado originalmente por Pancakes:

yeah its rough as hell even with FSR Frame Gen

the input lag from Frame gen makes me wanna hurl my computer in a wall

[The Mad One]

Same, this game seems really good. but I can't run it for more the 20mins before the GPU shuts it down, 4080ti running on low graphics lol. Then when I relog in the whole world is coloured red like its been hit by some kind of Red Giant Star, and its unplayable...only way to fix it, I have to reinstall all my graphics drivers and restart the pc and then I get about another 20mins gameplay and the whole process continues.

Ironically, I think this more a thing to do with Jagex because some of the newer areas in Runescape (which I shouldn't have any trouble running) do exactly the same thing, in fact for a few weeks I could only run RS for about 20mins before it shut down, before some very clever person gave me some graphics tweaks which worked nicely (although new areas still send the GPU going mental, it no longer overheats and shuts down).

Sad really, but they seriously need to sort these problems out

[Claytonio]

I am running into the same issue. I'm running on a 4090 with 13900k and my GPU is at 95-98% and highest temp I've seen is 81. I run every other game and my GPU never runs at that high of usage and this is the first time I've seen it this high at 80+. I am aware that's not overheating but the issue remains of it using almost all of my GPU to run this game which is a big issue.

[ChubbiChibbai]

Unreal Engine scales incredibly well for a wide range of systems. It scales up and down. So scale it down a bit.

You don't have to run it at max settings. You can lean more on up scaling and you can lock the fps to something sensible.

If you are trying to play a game at 4K 120fps that is a huge demand on any system.
So scale it down to 4K 60. Or use upscaling. Or both.

Also figure out which settings are the most demanding.

UE5 lighting at max uses a pretty expensive global illumination which looks fantastic but you can usually turn that down to get much better performance and most wont even notice the lighting difference after a while.

I don't understand why modern gamers are so incapable of tweaking their PC and game settings to get the desired performance.

I can run this game at Max but i prefer reduced GPU usage so i set DLSS to Performance and upscale to 4K and then lock my FPS at 60. Now my GPU is at a nice 75% and my fans aren't going crazy.