Temporary fix for High CPU temps

[Cyanid_]

So some of us get high CPU temps, for reference, my CPU gets to 60c max for Wukong. For space marine 2 I was getting 85-95c wich is crazy. Here is a temporary fix (until they patch it I hope) to drop temp:

Open Windows PowerShell and copy this line:
powercfg /attributes SUB_PROCESSOR PERFBOOSTMODE -ATTRIB_HIDE

This will give you an additionnal option (just unhides it) in tpower management
Control Panel\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings then Change advanced power settings -> Processor power management\Processor performance boost

Set Processor performance boost to Disabled. This will prevent your CPU to kick boost mode, wich to my understanding, the game seem to do as soon as you start it. This will drop temperature by a lot. If you get performance issue and dont like it, just set it back to what it was.

Additionaly, you can drop wattage and set a negative voltage offset in the BIOS but that require a little more knowledge and I dont think most ppl want to do that.

I know, we shouldnt have to do that, but this can help with playing the game without being worried that your CPU becomes the next KFC menu item

EDIT1: Ppl asked me to include this method. So im putting them here so its all consolidated together. This first one can be done as a profile for each game separatly. (I have not tested this personnally)

https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/power_settings_individual_apps.html

***UPDATE***

Although this can still be use, I want to point out that the patch released today on september 11th seem to have fix the CPU performance problem. With boost back on, my temps are now 60c to 65c instead of the 90c I was getting before. I would recommend anyone that turned CPU boost off, to try the game again with it enabled again to test

[VideoJones]

Originally posted by Belmont:

No. You can toggle it back after you're done with the game. All it's doing is preventing your CPU to acknowledge the boost request from processes/software/etc. It just runs at its default settings. You may experience performance hits in the game, since the purpose of the boost in the first place is to ensure FPS stability and stop stuttering/lag/etc. Without it you may get some hiccups as the game tries to process something and needed the boost to do it smoothly. Turning down some graphics settings in game can alleviate this.

This is just a temp fix until the devs patch this to stop the game from asking for 100% utilization and boost *constantly*.

So realistically I could just leave it how it is for every game until I hit performance issues?

[Belmont]

Originally posted by VideoJones:

Originally posted by Belmont:

No. You can toggle it back after you're done with the game. All it's doing is preventing your CPU to acknowledge the boost request from processes/software/etc. It just runs at its default settings. You may experience performance hits in the game, since the purpose of the boost in the first place is to ensure FPS stability and stop stuttering/lag/etc. Without it you may get some hiccups as the game tries to process something and needed the boost to do it smoothly. Turning down some graphics settings in game can alleviate this.

This is just a temp fix until the devs patch this to stop the game from asking for 100% utilization and boost *constantly*.

So realistically I could just leave it how it is for every game until I hit performance issues?

There aren't any other games I know of with this bizarre issue of asking for constant 100% utilization and thus causing the extreme temp spikes. It's directly asking your system for as much power as it can give. This is a first for me seeing something like this.

The temp fix is there and solves the problem for now with a bandaid. Just toggle it when you want to play and revert after. No reason to cripple your system's possible performance outside the game. Boosts innately aren't bad. The point of the boost is to ensure stability and maintain FPS/Processing without hiccups. It's meant to boost, solve the problem, then go back down. Temp spikes from it are normal. It's NOT meant to be running/asking for it constantly like SM2 is doing.

[Cyanid_]

Originally posted by Bron:

@Cyanid_ I'm still not sure what I am suppose to be typing into Windows PowerShell after "powercfg /attributes SUB_PROCESSOR PERFBOOSTMODE -ATTRIB_HIDE". Like what specifically am I suppose to type into the console to get to Processor performance boost.

Just copy/paste the line in powershell then press enter . Then you need to get to the power management option

Control Panel\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings then Change advanced power settings -> Processor power management\Processor performance boost

[Gisborne]

Originally posted by Belmont:

Originally posted by VideoJones:

So realistically I could just leave it how it is for every game until I hit performance issues?

There aren't any other games I know of with this bizarre issue of asking for constant 100% utilization and thus causing the extreme temp spikes. It's directly asking your system for as much power as it can give. This is a first for me seeing something like this.

The temp fix is there and solves the problem for now with a bandaid. Just toggle it when you want to play and revert after. No reason to cripple your system's possible performance outside the game. Boosts innately aren't bad. The point of the boost is to ensure stability and maintain FPS/Processing without hiccups. It's meant to boost, solve the problem, then go back down. Temp spikes from it are normal. It's NOT meant to be running/asking for it constantly like SM2 is doing.

remember when cyberpunk was burning out peoples gpus because of the menu?

[Belmont]

Originally posted by Gisborne:

Originally posted by Belmont:

There aren't any other games I know of with this bizarre issue of asking for constant 100% utilization and thus causing the extreme temp spikes. It's directly asking your system for as much power as it can give. This is a first for me seeing something like this.

The temp fix is there and solves the problem for now with a bandaid. Just toggle it when you want to play and revert after. No reason to cripple your system's possible performance outside the game. Boosts innately aren't bad. The point of the boost is to ensure stability and maintain FPS/Processing without hiccups. It's meant to boost, solve the problem, then go back down. Temp spikes from it are normal. It's NOT meant to be running/asking for it constantly like SM2 is doing.

remember when cyberpunk was burning out peoples gpus because of the menu?

Was the root cause for that a constant ask of the system for performance boost? I can't remember. I thought that was a GPU related issue not a CPU related issue. Could be wrong. I don't remember at all.

[VideoJones]

Originally posted by Belmont:

There aren't any other games I know of with this bizarre issue of asking for constant 100% utilization and thus causing the extreme temp spikes. It's directly asking your system for as much power as it can give. This is a first for me seeing something like this.

The temp fix is there and solves the problem for now with a bandaid. Just toggle it when you want to play and revert after. No reason to cripple your system's possible performance outside the game. Boosts innately aren't bad. The point of the boost is to ensure stability and maintain FPS/Processing without hiccups. It's meant to boost, solve the problem, then go back down. Temp spikes from it are normal. It's NOT meant to be running/asking for it constantly like SM2 is doing.

Fair enough. I'll just enable it again if I play something else.

[Belmont]

Originally posted by VideoJones:

Originally posted by Belmont:

There aren't any other games I know of with this bizarre issue of asking for constant 100% utilization and thus causing the extreme temp spikes. It's directly asking your system for as much power as it can give. This is a first for me seeing something like this.

The temp fix is there and solves the problem for now with a bandaid. Just toggle it when you want to play and revert after. No reason to cripple your system's possible performance outside the game. Boosts innately aren't bad. The point of the boost is to ensure stability and maintain FPS/Processing without hiccups. It's meant to boost, solve the problem, then go back down. Temp spikes from it are normal. It's NOT meant to be running/asking for it constantly like SM2 is doing.

Fair enough. I'll just enable it again if I play something else.

Enable it when you're done with your SM2 session. There's no reason to limit your Windows performance, either.

[AllergicToBrainRot]

Do I even need it on? I have i7 13700kf. It was set to aggressive mode. I turned it off and noticed straight away. My aio isn't cooking me alive in my room when I play heavy games. If performance drops alot. I could try the under volt if I don't end up destroying my pc.

[stuck in gold in Jerkmate ranked]

Originally posted by Moonwitch:

Originally posted by mjordan79:

This is not a "fix". And no, it's not the game that's calling boost mode. Fix your CPU cooling instead of breaking stuff. You're destroying your CPU performance. There is nothing to fix in the game. If you are using a 13th gen or 14th gen Intel CPU with air cooling, the problem is your PC. Not a game's fault. Disabling boost mode on a CPU that has P-Cores as the main cores for performance, is killing the sense of buying such CPUs.

Spoken confidently by someone that's never looked inside their pc before. Yes. It. Is. The. Game.

I had 80C when playing this game, did the workaround fix and 45-50C now. Wow, imagine that!

you are NOT running this game at 45 - 50C when thats what your pc would be running if it was idle , lying for absolutely no reason

[Sumi]

My idle temps are 40-45c, now im 55 to 60c, still running the game on ultra with 90 FPS lock and never drop below it. (Before i was 75-85c.)

RTX 4080, R7 7800x3d.

Thank you!

[Belmont]

Originally posted by yummers:

Originally posted by Moonwitch:

Spoken confidently by someone that's never looked inside their pc before. Yes. It. Is. The. Game.

I had 80C when playing this game, did the workaround fix and 45-50C now. Wow, imagine that!

you are NOT running this game at 45 - 50C when thats what your pc would be running if it was idle , lying for absolutely no reason :hunted:

Except without the boost and limiting your CPU, that basically is what its at on decent cooling. I tested it both ways. The results were basically that. 90+ with performance boost enabled, 50c with it disabled.

You realize that with it disabled you're effectively limiting the CPU to its base performance. No overclock, no extra speed, no nothing. That's why the temp is so low. For all purposes, that pretty much IS idle.

[Moonwitch]

Originally posted by yummers:

Originally posted by Moonwitch:

Spoken confidently by someone that's never looked inside their pc before. Yes. It. Is. The. Game.

I had 80C when playing this game, did the workaround fix and 45-50C now. Wow, imagine that!

you are NOT running this game at 45 - 50C when thats what your pc would be running if it was idle , lying for absolutely no reason :hunted:

https://i.imgur.com/vn4CpHJ.jpeg

Anything else?

[Psycha]

Originally posted by Sol4rSky:

You should just undervolt. It's easier and it will serve your whole PC better as it'll lower temps all over with no performance loss. Use intel extreme tunning to do it, it's easy as heck and that way you won't handicap your PC performance for a game. On the contrary.

What you need to look for in it is :
Core Voltage Offset - set it to -50v
Then underneath some more
Processor Cache Voltage Offset - you can also lower this to like -50v,

Test your new temps, if all stable and good you can try offset -60v on the processor and so on.

(Ps : to do this, you need a K processor for intel)

The game's voltage is higher than any other game in consumption. Normal voltage in other triple A titles is 1.04 and the game runs at 1.32.

Undervolting would harm everything else performance wise just to get space marine at a stable voltage.

[xxEvildoctorxx]

Originally posted by Cyanid_:

So some of us get high CPU temps, for reference, my CPU gets to 60c max for Wukong. For space marine 2 I was getting 85-95c wich is crazy. Here is a temporary fix (until they patch it I hope) to drop temp:

Open Windows PowerShell and copy this line:
powercfg /attributes SUB_PROCESSOR PERFBOOSTMODE -ATTRIB_HIDE

This will give you an additionnal option (just unhides it) in tpower management
Control Panel\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings then Change advanced power settings -> Processor power management\Processor performance boost

Set Processor performance boost to Disabled. This will prevent your CPU to kick boost mode, wich to my understanding, the game seem to do as soon as you start it. This will drop temperature by a lot. If you get performance issue and dont like it, just set it back to what it was.

Additionaly, you can drop wattage and set a negative voltage offset in the BIOS but that require a little more knowledge and I dont think most ppl want to do that.

I know, we shouldnt have to do that, but this can help with playing the game without being worried that your CPU becomes the next KFC menu item

EDIT1: Ppl asked me to include this method. So im putting them here so its all consolidated together. This first one can be done as a profile for each game separatly. (I have not tested this personnally)

https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/power_settings_individual_apps.html

unfortunately the option of Processor Perfomance Boost didnt spawn after cop paste, any idea why?

[Spitfire Spud]

Originally posted by Il PAlN lI:

I try the energy saving plan and reduce the processor energy settings from 100% to 99% by max and min and it helped. From 75C to 40/50C

The Energy Saving Plan, do you mean editing the Processor Power Management Maximum from 100%-99% in advanced power options?