CPU heavy?

[Semirotta]

How can this empty game be this CPU heavy? I mean, playing as a host for two players and my CPU heat tries to go 70 and more degrees of celcius. What in the heck is going on in the background of this game? it has minimal content and the enemy AI is very simple, so what is eating all the strings?

I lowered my settings to lowest; no change. That usually fixes if the CPU tends to heat more than Id like but with this game it has absolutely no change.

Are there some launch options which could perhaps make it less of a problem? I doubt that.
I mean something like Valheim with 3 players with maxed settings and my CPU heats up similarly to 70~, but thats Valheim. Understandable. This game here is a lot less heavy, or it should be since it has less content and all.

Am I alone with the CPU overuse / heating?

[Xaquin.M]

doesn't happen to me, though I do note that it chugs a lot in mold biomes and in my garden plot (also has mold)

[Zerx44]

the game simulates alot of the world all at once like nothing stops you from runnin a conveyor belt across the map and have it move ore across the map. might have something to do with the fact it has more going on then Valhiem when it comes to world sim

[Xaelon]

70 degrees Celsius is a completely normal temp for a newer CPU under load. Normal standby temp is around 60 degrees. I don't know what model of CPU you run of course but if you check whatever temps are 'normal' for your model you'll find that this is nothing to be concerned about. Your PC's hardware has built in temp safeguards too. Your PC will shut itself down before it ever gets hot enough to cause damage.

And while this game appears to be completely 2D it's actually a fully 3D game which is why the lighting looks as good as it does. In that respect it probably requires a similar amount of resources to Valheim.

[Semirotta]

Thank you all for your replies, these have made my mind at ease.
Normally my games make the CPU to heat between 50-60 degrees, when ever anything is taking it to 70+ it ofc worries me. Not many games manage to do that after all and I was just so weirded out how something this "empty" and "simple" can take so much from the CPU. Luckily we changed to another player to host so I dont have to worry about that anymore. Normal gameplay without hosting same time the CPU is only 50-60 so its all good again there.

[Malekith]

There's nothing wrong with your CPU being under load. Sounds like you could increase the cooling potential of it by improving airflow if the case has enough fans and a good fan configuration.

Some cases are terrible for airflow though. Also, if you have a more expensive cooler, like a Noctua NH-D15 is one of the best air coolers you can get. Keeps temps on my ryzen 9 in the 50s-60s but i never get full utilisation of my CPU anyway even if i play multiple games at the same time. For example, I i have had FF14 and Cyberpunk 2077 running at the same time fine till FF14 crashes due to DX11 issues. (FF14 is poorly coded)

https://noctua.at/en/nh-d15-chromax-black

[Semirotta]

I know the cooling is an issue right now, when I have the money im going to get a tower cooling system to improve it. Everything else is fine and dandy, but unfortunately the heating was a little inefficient.

[Man of God]

I run 4 different servers on a single AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core @ 3500 MHz with 32GB of RAM. I also run other servers. The most people on one of my servers at any one time is about 6 or so. I share them publicly and I let people play and do whatever in them. I've had them running for months. I don't even play in these and I just let people do whatever they want, occasionally I login just to ban a griefer from the 2 servers that don't allow griefing.

There's something wrong with your setup. My CPU temp now with all of this running (and many other services) is 38.5 °C. If I shut down docker and all my other services my CPU temp drops to about 33.5 °C generally. My indoor temp is 22 °C.

You didn't state what CPU you are using. If it's a piece of junk or Intel trash then don't expect much.

[Semirotta]

"Something wrong with your setup" its a brand new (bought last summer) PC and I was aware it might have a little bit underwhelming cooling system for the CPU but it was my only chance to get a new PC.
I dont use this PC for hosting servers, we just tend to play co-ops with couple of friends and those require hosting of some kind most often times.
I have some scrubby 13th gen intel i7 24 cpus 2.1ghz per cpu, 16gb gddr5 4400mhz RAM and rtx 4080. Still 20x at least better than what I used to have so cant complain.

[Malekith]

Originally posted by Semirotta:

"Something wrong with your setup" its a brand new (bought last summer) PC and I was aware it might have a little bit underwhelming cooling system for the CPU but it was my only chance to get a new PC.
I dont use this PC for hosting servers, we just tend to play co-ops with couple of friends and those require hosting of some kind most often times.
I have some scrubby 13th gen intel i7 24 cpus 2.1ghz per cpu, 16gb gddr5 4400mhz RAM and rtx 4080. Still 20x at least better than what I used to have so cant complain.

Erm, those specs don't make sense at all.

2.1ghz? Should be well over 4GHz.
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/series/230486/13th-generation-intel-core-i7-processors.html

[Semirotta]

I dont know, im not a computer wizard but thats what it said in Dxdiag.
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700F (24 CPUs), ~2.1GHz.
If I can dig up more info somewhere somehow within the PC do let me know and I shall provide.
EDIT:
Looked at that intel website you provided and indeed it is infact 16 cores, the 24 was total threads. My bad.
But the Performance-core Base Frequency is indeed 2.1Ghz.

[Senor Smoke]

i had the same thought, when i run Core Keeper at the same time as Railgrade (im the one w the savegame so i have to leave it open in the background so my wife can fish while i play other stuff) my PC bogs down with 100% CPU usage & eventually crashes, but i checked and Railgrade is using more CPU. so while Core Keeper uses more resources than you'd expect from its genre bc it doesn't cull resources as much as comparable games do, it isnt actually that bad

[Semirotta]

Sure it isnt actually so bad, but still weirds me out for such a "lightweight" game being such a CPU hog. I mean these days it seems like nobody makes properly optimized games anymore anyway.
Screw the RTX 4080, I should of have gotten i9 or something.

[Zombie Teddy Bear]

@semirotta
Any chance you havent dusted your internal parts in awhile? dust decreases cooling efficiency.
if you smoke/vape you may want to get an external fan to blow smoke away from your computer because the smoke can make a super sticky substance that decreases cooling.
i dont know the actual numbers but i remember seeing a graph that plots cpu temp with cpu speed and at a certain temp the cpu with down throttle to keep the temp low enough to not damage parts.

games typically dont have to be optimized now days and its considered wasted money

[Semirotta]

I was waiting for such a question, but really, this PC is brand new. I got it end of the summer. I have clean room, clean table it is on, it has pretty much no dust what so ever even on top of its exterior shell, doubt there is that much yet inside either :)
I also lowered performance stuff and energy usages because at first the PC was in some weird turbomode which caused every game to basically overheat the CPU. It really has bad cooling and its barely enough, definitely going to get a new cooler when I can afford such. Theres just so many things Id need, new headphones, new mouse and keyboard, new speakers, new external HDD or SSD etc. just too many money holes and no money to fill with.
Games typically do have to be optimized, if developer thinks its ok to have unoptimized game as finished game for example, that developer should be taken behind a corner and put down like a rapid animal. Theres enough grifter developers out there, optimization is one really good pointer to know if devs are good or not imo.

[MonkehMaster]

Originally posted by Zombie Teddy Bear:

@semirotta
Any chance you havent dusted your internal parts in awhile? dust decreases cooling efficiency.
if you smoke/vape you may want to get an external fan to blow smoke away from your computer because the smoke can make a super sticky substance that decreases cooling.
i dont know the actual numbers but i remember seeing a graph that plots cpu temp with cpu speed and at a certain temp the cpu with down throttle to keep the temp low enough to not damage parts.

games typically dont have to be optimized now days and its considered wasted money

have to add this slightly old comment, never ever believe someone saying stuff like this..... games absolutely have to be optimized and developing/maintaining your game code is absolutely not a waste of money.

ignore anyone making claims like that, its clear misinformation.