Over heating CPU

[Noobie]

is there anything i can do to fix this? my cpu is 5800x3d so its no slouch but why on earth does this game make it shoot to over 90 degrees Celcius when nothing else does? ive tried turning down cloth physics and shadows to lower my cpu use but it still skyrockets to 90 or more on just the title screen



UPDATE:
Switching Max fps to 60 pretty much solved the issue

UPDATE 2:
did not solve issue left game in active gameplay and CPU got to 85 went ahead and killed the game to prevent overheat. changing settings didnt help unfortunately. gonna wait for patch before i play
UPDATE 3:
Turns out my PC power control had my CPU performance boost set to AGGRESSIVE and by simply turning it off my cpu sits at 52 degrees in game
FINAL UPDATE:
My issue is resovled. my pc only had a heat issue once and since trying all of the work arounds my power boost setting being set to AGGRESSIVE and is now off has fixed my issue for the game completely. im at 120 fps max settings and my heat ranges is 54-60. Todays update may have had something to do with it or me switching the game to my M.2 storage and changing my span speed and power boost could have fixed it. ive been playing for close to 3 hours with no issue and even left the game running to go take a shower and still no issues. If youre having heat issues check to see if you power boost is on or set to a weird setting, double check your thermal paste and fan speeds, and check to your CPU usage if its low but your cpu is hot its likely the game still causing issues

[Noobtastic]

I'm not sure, I'v turne down some settings and it seems to kinda work, but nothing crazy. It does seem like the game runs the CPU hot for a lot of people.

[gotcha2313]

i would imagine that you would have to do some real testing to determine rather its the game or your cooling solution which is the problem. I would run a benchmark and see what the typical score for your cpu is. If you see a decent difference its most likely your cooling solution.

[GhostedMemory]

Does it stay in the 90's while playing?

[Darkrayne]

Just try capping the FPS. Swarm Engine will use everything your system has to offer if you let it and that brings the heat.

[Belmont]

Higher end CPU's are having temperature problems with this game because it's asking for boost performance 100% of the time. The better the CPU, the more it'll ask, the hotter the temps. No game should be asking for boost 100% of the time. SM2 is doing that.

There are also other issues affecting various different CPU's (Such at the 13th/14th gen Intel issues) but as you said you have an AMD, that isn't affecting you.

No matter how beastly your cooling set up is, the better the CPU, the more the game is asking from it. They will most likely patch the issue.

[Frodonator]

Originally posted by Noobie:

is there anything i can do to fix this? my cpu is 5800x3d so its no slouch but why on earth does this game make it shoot to over 90 degrees Celcius when nothing else does? ive tried turning down cloth physics and shadows to lower my cpu use but it still skyrockets to 90 or more on just the title screen

Try cleanimg your CPU fan and do you have a good air flow using fans.
Are you using the CPU fan that came with the CPU or did you buy a better one.

[POBRIP]

If you look on their company forums, you can see that the devs have opened and are currently replicating the issues on their end, once they've reliably managed to replicate and find the cause, you'll see a patch that should fix it in the future, has happened with some other games this year also and those patches have been fairly quick

[NONAME]

It just runs hot.
It maxes out my 4090 regardless of the DLSS setting.
It pushes my 13700k with 360 AIO into the 70s range.

The optimization is not there.

Also, it's the only game so far that makes my Razer headset constantly disconnect/reconnect after every major hiss/static sound.

Not telling anyone what to do, but I'm personally refunding this and will buy it a year later at 50% off.

[M.T. Fish]

I capped the framerate at 60 and my PC stopped being a space heater.

[Slayaplaya1998]

Originally posted by Belmont:

Higher end CPU's are having temperature problems with this game because it's asking for boost performance 100% of the time. The better the CPU, the more it'll ask, the hotter the temps. No game should be asking for boost 100% of the time. SM2 is doing that.

There are also other issues affecting various different CPU's (Such at the 13th/14th gen Intel issues) but as you said you have an AMD, that isn't affecting you.

No matter how beastly your cooling set up is, the better the CPU, the more the game is asking from it. They will most likely patch the issue.

i was thinking this was the case for me, i got a 13700k and a gtx 3080 and i feel like my cpu is cooking to much and im not getting my desired frames

[Belmont]

Originally posted by POBRIP:

If you look on their company forums, you can see that the devs have opened and are currently replicating the issues on their end, once they've reliably managed to replicate and find the cause, you'll see a patch that should fix it in the future, has happened with some other games this year also and those patches have been fairly quick

Exactly. It'll just take time for a patch. While I'm sure that *some* of the issues people are complaining are their own rig's problem, the vast majority is just SM2 being a CPU hog.

Like that was clear seeing it crank the utilization to 100% on the menu screen of all things.

[Belmont]

Originally posted by Slayaplaya1998:

Originally posted by Belmont:

Higher end CPU's are having temperature problems with this game because it's asking for boost performance 100% of the time. The better the CPU, the more it'll ask, the hotter the temps. No game should be asking for boost 100% of the time. SM2 is doing that.

There are also other issues affecting various different CPU's (Such at the 13th/14th gen Intel issues) but as you said you have an AMD, that isn't affecting you.

No matter how beastly your cooling set up is, the better the CPU, the more the game is asking from it. They will most likely patch the issue.

i was thinking this was the case for me, i got a 13700k and a gtx 3080 and i feel like my cpu is cooking to much and im not getting my desired frames

Yeah, I have a 13900k and have done *all* the fixes with it that people keep trying to blame. BIOS microcode update, undervolt, limit wattage, I have a 360 AIO cooler, temps everywhere else in ANYTHING else are fine across the board and I have no stability issues ever.

It's just SM2. It's glaringly obvious it's something wonky in SM2 asking for the Performance Boost 100% of the time. No game should be asking for the boost *constantly*. It's meant as a stability insurance. To keep framerates from hiccuping or to prevent stutter when the game knows its about to happen. Yet it's asking for that boost even on the main menu.

People just like the blame the easy culprit, which in this case Intel and Mobo manufacturers are absolutely to blame with the 13th/14th gen issues, but those issues are made far worse by a piece of software asking for round the clock 100% performance boost. So those that haven't done their fixes, are getting hit even worse. It just exposed the problem.

[Dreadnaught]

there's a fix that works well. Turn off performance boost for cpu in control panel > power settings. You might have to go into powershell to enter a command to actually have it show you that setting. Google the fix, it's there and it works. You'll lose a tiny bit of performance but it's still more than acceptable in the meantime. On a 5800x3D and 4080 super. I haven't gone over 61C since trying the fix. I was at a steady 90 until I did the fix.

[Belmont]

Originally posted by Dreadnaught:

there's a fix that works well. Turn off performance boost for cpu in control panel > power settings. You might have to go into powershell to enter a command to actually have it show you that setting. Google the fix, it's there and it works. You'll lose a tiny bit of performance but it's still more than acceptable in the meantime. On a 5800x3D and 4080 super.

This is probably the best temporary fix until the patch gets issued.

I also find it slightly humorous that so many people were so quick to blame people's rigs and yet the devs have acknowledged the issue now, are totally aware of it, and are working to fix it.

The same thing happened in so many other games. Remnant II, Hogwarts, Dead Space, Calisto, etc.

While some of it can very well be people's rigs, when there are so many stating the temperatures are out of control, usage is out of control, and its across multiple different types of CPUs (As I've seen both Intel AND AMD users complaining about it), the only common denominator between everyone is the game.

[Noobie]

cleaned all my fans in about to test temps but in the menu before gameplay its at 90 and in gameplay it stayed there