CPU overheat.

[Grug]

Multiple times tonight my PC pops off and I get sent to BIOS saying my CPU is over heating. I have tried setting the game to the lowest graphics settings but it still occurs. No other game has this problem. I have a liquid cooler attached to my CPU too. How can I prevent this? It makes the game unplayable.

[Phoenix Cat]

First off what are your specs? I run and I7-11700 on high settings with air cooler and have not problems. Doesn't even get warm. And unless you have an integrated GPU adjusting the graphics shouldn't have a lot to do with CPU.

[Grug]

I have a Intel Core i7 8700K @ 3.70GHz, which I expected would be enough.

[SourHammer]

You most definitely have some sort of problem with your cooler. I have a ryzen 7 5800x and it runs average 57c with spikes to 65c. And the R7 5800x is a known hot cpu. My cooler is an old duel 140mm phantecs air coolar. If you have an AIO liquid cooler maybe its just old and time for replacement. Maybe air in the system or the radiator is not getting good air flow.

[Grug]

Even if I do have a cooling problem, no other game in my library including other automation games causes these kinds of crashes. I can only conclude it's an optimization or safety problem with Techtonica.

[alyandon]

I have an air cooled 3900X system that doesn't break 70C when running games much less this one. There is really no situation where a game (or any other type of user mode application) running on a Windows PC with a properly working cooler should result in overheating to the point of shutdown. You have a serious issue with your cooling setup that needs to be addressed. A common issue with water coolers is that air can get trapped in the lines going to the radiator if it is installed with the wrong orientation.

[Grug]

I managed to get this diagnosed, and it turns out it's not heating it's Techtonica spiking the power consumption for some reason. I had to unplug my speakers and second monitor to ensure necessary wattage.

[Jay Ren]

Originally posted by Grug:

I managed to get this diagnosed, and it turns out it's not heating it's Techtonica spiking the power consumption for some reason. I had to unplug my speakers and second monitor to ensure necessary wattage.

You'll encounter this problem the moment you play anouther game that actually uses your hardwere flat out.... But uh... Normally I'd give advice on how to fix it long term, but not getting enough power from the ring mains sounds like... an electrical problem with your house.

Maybe a bad multi-plug-strip-thing if your using one?

Short term, make sure a FPS cap is on.

[arizonaman711]

I’m having kinda the same problem except it’s my gpu overheating I have an msi rtx 3080 running it at 1440p on all low settings at like 30-40 fps and my gpu heats up to 80-85c

[simonhobnob]

80 to 85 is normal for a GPU under load. If you're concerned, are the GPU fans spinning?

[Pusedotten]

what is your wattage for psu maybe time for an upgrade on that and you should maybe clean out some dust

[erekos]

Bottom line is that the game is currently not well optimized. The devs have said that optimizations will be in a future release(s).

[ಠ_ಠ]

Originally posted by erekos:

Bottom line is that the game is currently not well optimized. The devs have said that optimizations will be in a future release(s).

Which still has nothing to do with overheating. If 100% utilization overheats your rig, then you probably have a cooling issue.

My day job is tech support. The only time I see issues like this is when a fan has died, or something else has broken (like when nVidia had a run of bad RAM back around '05 or so - I personally RMA'd three cards before the issue was isolated and resolved - thanks for being cool, EVGA!).

[Stars-N-Stripes]

In case it helps anyone just did several test on a 3080 and here were the optimal settings at least in my test

1) Run in full screen mode NOT borderless window
2) Set the refresh rate to 50
3) Set resolution to 1920x1080
4) Every setting on MAX

With this my GPU stayed at 63-68 degrees, power load was 213 - 268 watts, cpu utilization 40%.

For comparison running the game @ 2560x1440 with refresh rate @ 60 causes my GPU to run 85 degrees, 390 watts of power, and CPU utilization only @ 45% however the temps difference on the CPU was was 35 degrees higher than the settings listed above.

These temps are not going to damage your PC provide it has adequate cooling but I'm more concerned about the power usage, reduce that by 50% using the settings above, the game still looks the same and with refresh of 50FPS I don't get any motion sickness - seems like a complete win in my book.