Keep an eye on CPU temps

[Bank92]

Did a 4 hour marathon. Defeated Black Flame and quit the game. Computer black screened shortly after.

After reboot, BIOS reported CPU over temperature. Keep an eye on your temps folks.

(Running on i5-13600k with aftermarket cooler.)

[Cadaver]

This is general good advice tho not specifically related to this game.
Make sure your cooling solution can keep up with your hardware, if not either lower the output of your hardware or upgrade your coooling

[S3agrass]

i have 12900k oc and not really having temp problems max temp 68c check over your cooler.

[Aldroen]

5950x with AIO and not even getting to mid 60s with this game at 4.8ghz

Do some stress tests and check your cooling.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

undervolt or powerlimit it, the 13th gen intel are hot af and i do have 13600kf so i know

it runs about 185w stock, you can go down to like 150w without much perf drop really

[NiamhNyx]

I havent hit above 65c with my cpu yet.

[Litoh]

Check your cooling.
Undervolt your CPU.

[Bank92]

Originally posted by Khergit Horse Archer:

undervolt or powerlimit it, the 13th gen intel are hot af and i do have 13600kf so i know

it runs about 185w stock, you can go down to like 150w without much perf drop really

I'll try doing that. This is the first game that caused this issue so far.

I might get an AIO cooler for my CPU later

[Khaziir Everflight]

Since i don't know if you are using a AIO watercooler or an aircooler, if it is an AIO, make sure it is not too old and has not lost too much liquid (it slowly evaporates through the tubing and fittings and so on no matter what you do).

I recently had to (for now) retire my alphacool 360 Eisbaer AIO after a move from one case to the other. the liquid level in it seems to have been too low after the air moved around as result from the transplant, plus it might have developed a biofilm (those anti-bio agents that are normally added won'T work forever afterall) or some kind of debris.

I could not even start the benchmark before i got that one, because my cpu'd instantly skyrocket to bios based overtemp protection (105°C) within seconds when the shadercaching started.

I swapped it to the DeepCool AK620, and am really happy. According to gamers nexus (THE data focused pc component youtube person) it has Noctua NH-D15 cooling performance (that one was seen as the "pinnacle" of consumer aircooling for a while) for ~2/3rd of the price (around 80 bucks instead of 120+). Might be worthwhile to give that a go, if you have an AIO. if it does not help, at least you got a spare for emergencies

[YMD]

Don't play any games or use any programs: there you saved your CPU for life, problem solved.

[ToothPaste]

Check your cooling because games are almost never going to be 100% GPU or 100% CPU for a lot of time, it's one or another. If your CPU is getting that hot there's something wrong.

[Bank92]

Originally posted by ToothPaste:

Check your cooling because games are almost never going to be 100% GPU or 100% CPU for a lot of time, it's one or another. If your CPU is getting that hot there's something wrong.

It's only Wilds so far that caused this.

Thinking it me be a combination of intel 13th gen and the game itself not being very optimized

[Ograus]

take a look at cpu load vs temp
load of cores/virtual cores (task manager or other tool of choice)
compare it with something like handbrake,....

this might be an indicator for cooling issues in general

still i do not see a reason why wilds should create such a lot of cpu load
this is not a game like anno 1800, cities skylines, x4,.... with loads of reuired background calculations

another thing comes into mind related to heat issues
does mh wilds use avx/avx2?
that instructions set is afaik know to cause heat issues&htrottling

or is denuvo the culprit here?

[Gluesticky]

PC should be able to run GPU and CPU at 100% no problems. If it can't then your cooling isn't good enough.

[cinchona]

Intel Core i9-11900K and never get above 60 Celsius.
CPU Cooling:CW-9060048-WW iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX Liquid CPU Cooler

[Arvae]

i think its worth applying new thermal to your cpu and consider a noctua heatsink