GPU too loud (most time in forests). Fan-bug !

[Doggy]

I have an Asus rtx 4060 oc card. And this graficcard is none of the quiet cards of all 4060 cards.
I prefer silent PC and my first looh is always which cards have the quiets fans.
But when you go in reforger in forest this quiet card will be very loud.
And i know very well how to configure a system aned to confifigure a silent-PC.
I make test in other games too but no problems there.

Of course forsts have a lot of textures and it is a garder work for the gpu than open fields.
But the gpu usage is much to high for "only" a forst". I play only in fullhd,with medium settings so not a hard work for the gpu.

It is only a Reforger-problem with bad optimazion. Hope this problem will be saved....again this problem have only reforger and not other games they are similar pc-power-hungry.


Ok make another test too. The fans will run a lot with only a temperature under 50 celsius too !!!!

So reforger let the fans run a lot without it being necessary.

[Garack]

yea my 4090 is at 100% most of the time, fps are capped to 118...must be a bug

[Doggy]

I hate it when a game(engine) can reduce the lifetime of a gpu (or cpu) because horrible/buggy optimized engine. And in the worst case it could be damahe thze gpu.

It is not necessary to have such high or max gpu usage in forest without any action or other grafic-intensive effects like smoke ect.

And the gpu usage is very highz when you are not in forest too (hard working of your gpu-fans).
But in forst i9d the max and it make not fun to play too when you hear your fans like a
hairdryer when you reach the forst.
And i have one of the quietest cardws (asus rtx 4060 oc).

"Good" full 1.0 game !!!!

[Doggy]

And like all other bugs will not fixed !!!!

[Chameleon_Silk]

utilizing 100 percent of your GPU is not a game bug, it means you are gpu limited - which with most modern cpus that are decent at gaming (which is a lot of them) is not a negative thing at all.

if your gpu limited try reducing your resolution, FYI a 4090 is GPU limited at 4K and would show 100 percent usage. a 4060 is a 1080p card and should be working hard at 1080p its the resolution that you should be running a game in, it would only be worse at higher resolutions by working 100 percent and spitting out horrible frames.

on fringe systems that have inadequate cooling, bad PSU quality or other issues with stability
it will usually bring out the crashes because of the heavier loading but having your GPU run 100 percent usage is perfectly fine if the GPU is not reaching thermal throttling levels of heat. which is why it will spin the fans harder. modern gpus are designed to boost as high as they can within the thermal headroom, if you want to make the hairdryer stop, change to a manual fan curve or curse ASUS for using the curve and "OC" that they are giving you, It's not the games issue.

but also in the same breath you are complaining about lowering the lifespan of a GPU, so adjusting the curve I guess is out the window since then it will just get hotter faster. I guess you could set everything low and lock the frames at a cinematic 24 fps to keep the GPU cool while you game.

no system should ever be damaged by 100 percent usage, that's complaining that you are getting every bit of power out of your graphics card, do you realize how many whine for the exact opposite reason?

Usually if a GPU isn't being fully utilized its a safe bet that the game isn't optimized.

[Doggy]

Exact........the game is not optimized,it is horrible optimized. I ply on mid/low details and my gpu usage is only at ca. 30-50 % . But all the time the fans are very loud (most time in forsest and go down after a while. Very nerved the noise up and down of the fans.

And my cooling of my PC is very good (2 fans front , 1 back ,2 at the "roof".

And other hardware hungry game like squad have bif forest (gpu-intensive maps) too.
But i have there absolute no problems with to loud gpu-fans.

And i make a test,when you dont move for a while the gpu will gez louder too and than the fans get quiet again.
Perhaps the problem are the dynamic moving clouds of reforger they make shaddows too....dont know.

And my gpu is the most quiet 4060 you can buy (asus) O N L Y and again only reforger make such problems.
With big forest levels in squad absolute no problems but reforger will make my very quiet gpu very loud..
But the most nerved are the up and downs of the loudness from the fans.

But very often (other games too) the devs and some fanboys will write the same argument like your pc is to weak,bad cooling system ect. With other words it is only your fault but not the holy game.

Reforger is very bad optimized and i hope the devs will fix it .Game is great but make not fun to play with loud gpu.
Sure for other player no problem,but i want to play on a silent PC. ALL my Pc-configuration is made for silence (be quiet fans,very good case from be quiet too.

But reforger make my silent pc to a loud pc.

Perhaps more configuration for the grafic-settings will help. Turn of the clouds for example.

Arma 3 have a lot of grafic settings,but reforger have only some. Typical when a PC-game will release cor xbox (or other console) too.

So often games get a very poor quality when they will release fot other platforms too.

Only PC-games will be the best . But know i hope bohemia will fix this problem and all rhe other 1000000 bugs for their "full-release-game" very soon.

To call this game with all the unfinished things /low content and bugs is a very bad joke.
Can only hope bohemia will fix the game very soon so the game have not only "finished or full-release" in the name.

[Chameleon_Silk]

Originally posted by Doggy:

Exact........the game is not optimized,it is horrible optimized. I ply on mid/low details and my gpu usage is only at ca. 30-50 % . But all the time the fans are very loud (most time in forsest and go down after a while. Very nerved the noise up and down of the fans.

And my cooling of my PC is very good (2 fans front , 1 back ,2 at the "roof".

And other hardware hungry game like squad have bif forest (gpu-intensive maps) too.
But i have there absolute no problems with to loud gpu-fans.

And i make a test,when you dont move for a while the gpu will gez louder too and than the fans get quiet again.
Perhaps the problem are the dynamic moving clouds of reforger they make shaddows too....dont know.

And my gpu is the most quiet 4060 you can buy (asus) O N L Y and again only reforger make such problems.
With big forest levels in squad absolute no problems but reforger will make my very quiet gpu very loud..
But the most nerved are the up and downs of the loudness from the fans.

But very often (other games too) the devs and some fanboys will write the same argument like your pc is to weak,bad cooling system ect. With other words it is only your fault but not the holy game.

Reforger is very bad optimized and i hope the devs will fix it .Game is great but make not fun to play with loud gpu.
Sure for other player no problem,but i want to play on a silent PC. ALL my Pc-configuration is made for silence (be quiet fans,very good case from be quiet too.

But reforger make my silent pc to a loud pc.

Perhaps more configuration for the grafic-settings will help. Turn of the clouds for example.

Arma 3 have a lot of grafic settings,but reforger have only some. Typical when a PC-game will release cor xbox (or other console) too.

So often games get a very poor quality when they will release fot other platforms too.

Only PC-games will be the best . But know i hope bohemia will fix this problem and all rhe other 1000000 bugs for their "full-release-game" very soon.

To call this game with all the unfinished things /low content and bugs is a very bad joke.
Can only hope bohemia will fix the game very soon so the game have not only "finished or full-release" in the name.

if your GPU usage is low then maybe you are reducing settings to much and placing the burden on your CPU instead of your GPU.

regardless of loading every modern card will turbo clock itself. I mean adjust the fan curve and check temps if its below 70C then you have plenty of headroom to improve the fan noise, just because a curve is aggressive doesn't mean anything is wrong, or that it will kill your card.

now if its at 100 percent fans and running 90C then you have some serious issues. I don't really get the whole I want to play a modern title and expect the gpu to do no work. of course the game is going to work your GPU.

my GPU gets the same hotness in DCS World, Arma 3, R4ger... heck even theAngler because its trying to run the game as fast as it can, lock your fps, reduce your fan curves to be quieter.

I can't really fault the game because it makes your fans spin harder, like that's like complaining to ferrari about the bumps in the road of your city. everyone wants to have their cake and eat it to, I want to pay 200 dollars and get a 144Hz experience on ultra but the reality is that just isn't going to happen.

I've run the game on a 5700XT, 3060 (non-Ti) and a 4080 Super.

It scaled fine on all of them with the 5700XT being barely playable, the 3060 running it at 44-59 FPS at 1440p and the 4080 Super running it at 77 fps 4K near ultra.

I dunno what to say my 4080 Super runs at about 64c in the game at 4K ultra, my case fans provide more noise than my GPU.

[Doggy]

Sry my english is horribble.

What i mean is that the fpu-fan run very irregular. In some cases the fans a very loud and in other situations very quiet.
But very confusing: Sometimes you run alone over an open field with no action (so not hard work for the gpu) ,but the fans are so loud like a lot o9f action on the screen.

It will be normal with louder fans when the gpu have a lot of work like many smoke,explosions and other grafic-effects.

But N O T when nothing happens and you run alone on the map. It is idiotic when the fans have the same lspeed/loudness like it wil be a lot of action.

It is like the desktop: No action and th fans are still (not turn on. When some applications running the fans will only run a little bit because not hard work for the gpu.

But in reforger the fans of the gpu runs irregular sometimes fast and sometimes not........but they run fast too when it is not necessary.

Fast fans only when heavy gpu-work and slow fans when the gpu have not a lot of work.

So all the up and downs of the fan-speed without heavy gpu-usage is an reforger problem.
The fans dont must run very fast with very low gpu-usage. The run sometimes very fast with gpu-usage only 30% !!!!

And again look other games they have not this problem. The fans will be only a little bit louder when the gpu have a lot of work in some situations.

Ok,let end this discuss here but thx for your answer. Fact is that O N L Y Reforger have such problem,other games like squar,Hell Let Loose,Ground Branch have normal gpu-fan-usage.
Something is wrong with reforger and the engine. The gpu-fan us-age is absolute abnormal compare with other gpu-intensive games.

[yannara]

Same problem with RTX 3070, in Arma 3 the PC gaming computer is quiet but in Reforger it goes nuts. Low optimizing graphics does not help.

[Doggy]

I found a soloution: Set yout main resolution to 70% and acrivate FSR. So it will look the same to play with native resolution.
And lock your frames to 100 in the ini-files of reforger.

Very poor that reforrger have only some fix numbers to lock your fr-ames and no a variable option to lock your frames like many other games.

With such setting my sestem stay quiet....only sometimes you will hear your graficcard in some situations.
But most time you have now a silent game.

But VERY VERY POOR from Bohemia you can only enjoy this game with such settings. Will you play without such "trick" you cant enjoy this game when the Pc is very loud.

And again i have a silent PC-configuration and ONLY Reforger make such problems.
Hope Bohemia will ever fix it.

[Doggy]

It is a shame that Bohemia do nothing to fix the problem ! And to lock frames to 100 is not a realsloution.
When you have a 144 hz monitor and lock frames too 100 it feels not so smooth .

But it is Bohemia....it will takes very long or never to fix such bugs.

[melsy]

This is a fan curve issue, not really a game issue.
Yes the game needs optimization, but this is the way fans work.
When it is to hot, it speeds up, when it is not, is slows down.
Check out MSI Afterburner, and adjust your fan curve to not be so aggressive so it ramps up smoother.

The argument of "it does not do it in X game" is completely useless for troubleshooting.
You are not playing that game, you are playing this one. Each game has it's own quirks.

If lowering the resolution and scale worked for you, because it lowered the fan speed, and is therefor not working as hard, maybe you should rethink the strategy.

If you want a quite PC, it costs more money to get higher end that what you need, then you can scale it back.
But a 4080, set your graphics settings low, then have the fan only curve up after 70*C.
This would run super quite and your GPU usage would be around 20% or so.

If you want to push your hardware to it's limits, you are going to deal with fan noise.
OR you are going to need to water cool everything.


OR there is always something like geforce now so your game playing will keep your computer at near idle.


Also, for reference, this game is not 1.0. It is in early access and a couple years away from 1.0. Optimizations are on the list.

[Chameleon_Silk]

yeah good luck explaining that to these guys.