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Torkkar Feb 8, 2024 @ 6:09am
WTF is this game making my NEW 2024 High End PC Squeeal on anything but LOW Graphic settings?
ok so first off my PC has an NVIDIA GeForece RTX 4070 card 64Gb RAM & a 13th gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 - 13700KF (24) CPU ~3.4GHz processor & the system is Liquid cooled.

In both DX11 & DX12 mode for this game IF ANY GRAPHICS Setting is above LOW my PC starts to squeal its some kind of Alarm probably related to cooling/processing.

Now WHY is this happening as according to my DXdiag report my rig is ABOVE your games requirements by a long shot you might want to look into this asap as if I have a machine that can handle HIGH Quality but need to play on low that's not a good thing to go forward with on full release.
Originally posted by Torkkar:
ok guys so just an update after this last week i can confirm this problem was NOT the demo nor was it my PC. it was the 660watt 4 hour Battery backup surge protected power bar last monday I was watching a stream then the PC went dead & with the PC OFF the squealing could be heard so now problem solved, this rig uses 660watts so the bar was over capacity powering monitor, Speakers, & a lamp as well as the PC, now I've a new 1,000watt bar that should be WAY more that this set up could EVER need.

so sorry for the aggression folks I was stressed, angry, & confused by all the tech talk above monkey make spear so you all have a good one & happy farming
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LittleWalker_NL Feb 8, 2024 @ 6:22am 
it cant be a top end pc becouse i can perfectly run it on my acer gaming laptop and if you are 100%sure your pc is realy high end you have too many stuff installed i added a second
Hard Drive so i had more storage space but games on my first Hard Drive run waaaaaaaay slowwer so get a second Hard Drive or delete some stuff
Zentun Feb 8, 2024 @ 8:02am 
mine gtx 1660s runs it on medium at 60fps
Fortzon Feb 8, 2024 @ 8:12am 
Either the demo has a bug that hates newer PC components or your PC has a cooling problem because my PC has a air cooled Ryzen 5 3600 and RTX 2070 and I'm playing this on ultra with no overheating problems. Maybe your pump is starting to fail?
Frostytater Feb 8, 2024 @ 8:47am 
Had no problems with my grandpa of a basic ♥♥♥♥♥ 1080. just had to lower the settings a tiny bit. Rather its a bug or your pc is not as good as you thought, maybe your liquid cooling got a prob besides that liquid cooling got a hard limit of how many heat it can mitigate. *shrug*
Torkkar Feb 8, 2024 @ 8:55am 
ok first off LittleWalker_NL I have over 50% of my hard Drive clear its NOT A SPEED PROBLEM! as with everything on LOW the alarm sound stops as soon as 1 setting goes to medium no matter what one it starts squealing again until I set the setting back to low & restart the game, in addition even on low IF I launch in DX12 the alarm starts as soon as I hit the main menu so I also have to play on low in DX11. apart from this the game runs with no issue & yes still looks great on full potato.

Second Cooling issue? I think not my room is a constant 16C the PC is Liquid cooled, & has 8 fans 5 induction (pulls air in) & 3 exhaust (pushes air out) & this rig is less than 3 months old so its not due for cleaning for another 2 months so this is not an issues.

so this is most likely a bug with the demo BUT if this bug occurs with a PC that cost me $3,789CND that has the second highest Video card NVIDIA makes & a 24 thread processor at 3.4Ghz I'd HATE to see what this game was made for because this rig again exceeds the min requirements by orders of magnitude I'm not going to list.

But I digress this thread is to tell the devs hey I found something odd with your product NOT to have my intelegence insulted by guys like the one mentioned above who didn't even read the original post & see the specs listed there & can see for them selves YES this rig is High End... least until 2025 & I'll still be making payments on this one til I'm an old man.
Last edited by Torkkar; Feb 8, 2024 @ 8:56am
Polski Feb 8, 2024 @ 9:11am 
Do you have V-Sync option ON? It is OFF by default and makes my PC go jet-like mode too because of rendering such high amount of frames.
ejederwanderer Feb 8, 2024 @ 10:55am 
Runs Fine on Ryzen 7 3800X with 128GB Ram and a Geforce RTX 2060 with the Standard Settings and i now switched to "Framebreaking" and the Machine doesn´t budge and stays at 2% Load with 60°C. And i have my AIO Cooler set as Always, and no overclocking Features activated. Try as Polski mentioned above and Check for V-Sync. I understand your Concerns but I would recommend to check PC Settings, and Motherboard P4 and 6 Pin Connector. My old Machine burned down after behaving like you described, because of P4 only partially connected.
umop-apisdn Feb 8, 2024 @ 11:03am 
Originally posted by Torkkar:
Cooling issue? I think not my room is a constant 16C the PC is Liquid cooled, & has 8 fans 5 induction (pulls air in) & 3 exhaust (pushes air out) & this rig is less than 3 months old so its not due for cleaning for another 2 months so this is not an issues.

Just because you have all the cooling doesn't mean it's installed properly. You could have your thermal paste too thin (or too thick), you could have left the plastic on the heatsink, your liquid reservoir might only be half full, or have bubbles in the line, or the pump may not be connected right, or the fans on your radiator might not be spinning up to the right speeds, or some connector might not be fully seated, or any number of other things could be horribly wrong without causing issues until the system is under load... Doublecheck everything.

Actually, the very first thing I would worry about is finding out exactly what's making an alarm sound, and more importantly, WHY. If something is screaming that it's dying, there's a reason... and blaming this game isn't gonna stop whatever unhappy component it is from bursting into flames or otherwise having some sort of meltdown.

If this game is causing something to hit triple-digit heat... don't run anything that will actually stress the system before you find out what the actual problem is.

It could actually be a voltage monitor, too. Even high-end PSUs aren't perfect, and defects happen.

Whoever built your PC might need to take another look at it... or perhaps it would be smarter to take it to the local mom & pop tech shop and lay a fresh pair of eyes on it.

Speaking as someone who has been swinging a screwdriver for more than 30 years and slinging code for nearly 40... mistakes happen. Don't burn your brand spankin' new gaming rig up because someone is too proud to admit they screwed up; get a second opinion, pronto.

TL;DR: You have a hardware problem, and if you persist in ignoring that... you're gonna be sad.
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Torkkar Feb 8, 2024 @ 12:32pm 
ok the problem with the above solution is this 1 I live in a RURAL Area the nearest PC Repair place is 45mins away by Highway & they only deal with stuff under Their Warranty plan, 2 I spent today testing with the rest of my high end games including ARK Survival Ascended & the only game to make the pc respond like this is the Demo of THIS GAME, that only requires 8Gb RAM. IF this is a Hardweare issue you'd thing games that need MORE Processing & Resources than this would also set this thing off screaming but nothing else has apart from this demo.
umop-apisdn Feb 8, 2024 @ 12:34pm 
Alright, fine. Then what's screaming, and what is it screaming about?
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Torkkar Feb 8, 2024 @ 12:42pm 
thats the problem I know ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about computers all I know is how to install games use steam to verify those games & everything else I gotta hop to hell it just works cause if not I got this thing off amazon as a prebuilt ready to go High End Gaming/streaming rig HELL this thing runs Baulders Gate 3 on Ultra with no issues
umop-apisdn Feb 8, 2024 @ 1:06pm 
If your brand new car's "Check Engine" light came on whenever you turned on the radio and the heater at the same time, would you ignore it or take it back to the dealership to have them take a look-see?

Alarm sounds coming out of the box itself are no joke; they're often an indicator of something about to break, in the process of breaking, or trying to catch fire.

If dragging the box to town to have someone with a clue poke around in it really isn't an option, then perhaps you should follow the other advice you were given; enable VSync, so it's not trying to push a million FPS, and see if that resolves the issue.

I'm running a Ryzen 7 1700 (no X), which is a 6 year old CPU with 16 virtual cores running at 3.0 GHz. It's running the stock heatsink/fan unit that came in the box with it. I've got an RTX 4060 Ti with 16GB of VRAM, and 16 GB of system RAM... and I'm pushing a solid 60 FPS at 4K. I've got no heat problems, no power problems, and no screaming alarms.

Your machine outclasses mine on every level, but mine's working and yours ain't.
Figure it out, take it to someone who can, or prepare to spend a bunch of money replacing something in your brand new rig, because something's gonna give.
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LimeyInPA Feb 8, 2024 @ 1:17pm 
Sometimes the simple moves are best. That this game is the only one that makes your PC 'squeal' is curious.

Does it happen as soon as you start the game, or only after the game is fully running with the rendered assets showing?

Have you tried the DX11 version if the DX12 version is making noise?
(You open the game within Steam to see this option, rather than double-clicking the desktop icon)

Have you tried the DX12 version if the DX11 version is making noise?

Have the PC do a Check Updates run, in case the sound chip needs something. You might even consider uninstalling the sound drivers to force Windows to reinstall, as they might be corrupted (although that wouldn't explain why it's only this game, but it's worth a try).

You might also do a physical check of the PC. Get the game running and turn the sound down to zero. If the squeal is affected by system volume, it would certainly suggest game-related. If this happens, go to the game settings and the audio button, and adjust the main volume, and then the other two, one at a time. That way you might find which part of the audio is giving you issues, be it ambient sounds (wind, etc.), activity sounds (harvesting, you stomping around, etc.) or the music.

But if it's still there even when the game is silenced, get your head close and personal with the PC and move around. Try to pinpoint the source of the sound. It might be the power supply, or maybe coil whine from the graphics card, or as others have suggested, some kind of warning beeper.
umop-apisdn Feb 8, 2024 @ 1:25pm 
I hadn't even considered coil whine. Does this match the sound coming out of your rig, Torkkar?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP73edpQwgc&t=100s
Torkkar Feb 8, 2024 @ 1:53pm 
Originally posted by LimeyInPA:
Sometimes the simple moves are best. That this game is the only one that makes your PC 'squeal' is curious.

Does it happen as soon as you start the game, or only after the game is fully running with the rendered assets showing?

Have you tried the DX11 version if the DX12 version is making noise?
(You open the game within Steam to see this option, rather than double-clicking the desktop icon)

Have you tried the DX12 version if the DX11 version is making noise?

Have the PC do a Check Updates run, in case the sound chip needs something. You might even consider uninstalling the sound drivers to force Windows to reinstall, as they might be corrupted (although that wouldn't explain why it's only this game, but it's worth a try).

You might also do a physical check of the PC. Get the game running and turn the sound down to zero. If the squeal is affected by system volume, it would certainly suggest game-related. If this happens, go to the game settings and the audio button, and adjust the main volume, and then the other two, one at a time. That way you might find which part of the audio is giving you issues, be it ambient sounds (wind, etc.), activity sounds (harvesting, you stomping around, etc.) or the music.

But if it's still there even when the game is silenced, get your head close and personal with the PC and move around. Try to pinpoint the source of the sound. It might be the power supply, or maybe coil whine from the graphics card, or as others have suggested, some kind of warning beeper.

the squealing happens on the Main menu, & persists into the game on DX12 mode its all the time even with all graphics settings on low while in DX11 its playable all settings on low no alarms but in 1.5 hours playtime the rigs about as hot as 12 hours of ASA or Baulders Gate 3 the 2 hardest running games I have.

Every time I try to put 1 setting up from low to medium the squealing begins.

I just tested with an hour of ASA & everything's nominal so IF it was the PC itself I'm certain ASA would set off the alarm as well but it only happens with THIS DEMO & for those of you saying: "Oh just throw money at it" 1 I'm on 3 digit FIXED INCOME! a $100 service call is not an option unless I don't want food, heat, power, rent, or internet for a month or longer, secondly the nearest PC shop that deals with people who don't have an in house Warranty is 2 hours away in the provincial capitol & I can't afford $100 to take a look at it, $100 in gas money for a NON-MEDICAL travel expense so I can't be reimbursed Nor can I afford a room until the things fixed & that's to have it back in Less than a month cause I'd have to mail my pc back to AMAZON then have them mail it back to the manufacturer & hope to hell the note explaining whats going on doesn't get lost, but going that route I'd not have my pc back in a month or two & who's to say it be my rig coming back the manufacturer could just replace the rig & not transfer the data & that'd mean having to re acquire all my accounts AGAIN & this is only the 3rd month I've had the thing.
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Date Posted: Feb 8, 2024 @ 6:09am
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