Warframe heats up PC

[FMG]

Whenever i play Warframe, my pc heats up to at least 70/75 degrees.
Sometimes even 80.

But only with Warframe, other games are fine at 60/65.
Anyone else having this problem? I have 90% of my settings on low.
Any fixes? I tried frame capping on 30 but that's just horrible haha.

[Soulstrike]

Had the same problem as soon as i unlocked the fps to 144. My GPU would heat up to ~85-90°C.
Locked the fps to 100 and im down to 45-50°C

Sure, it could be the GPU working like there is no tommorow, but its the only game i've got this problem, just like FMG.


edit.: Just leaving my specs here in case it helps

CPU: i7 6700k
RAM: 16gb
GPU: AMD Vega 56
Installed on a SSD

[FMG]

I seem to have fixed it, i changed Anisotropic Filtering to Off.
Went from a steady 80 degrees to 50/60.
It looks exactly the same to me.

[Air]

It's not any fault of the game that your PC is heating up. If Warframe is the game you notice this with, then you must mainly play older or indie games and a pretty low-end PC. Besides, 75-80°C is perfectly fine.

Anyway, if something's overheating, then you likely need to improve the cooling in your PC or even replace parts(by the look of things, however, you don't need to). Games do not directly cause more heat, but it happens to be that the more graphically intense a game is, the more heat is generated. If you have decent cooling and no faulty hardware, then no game should cause any sort of overheating.

[Simple Man]

Originally posted by Soulstrike:

Had the same problem as soon as i unlocked the fps to 144. My GPU would heat up to ~85-90°C.
Locked the fps to 100 and im down to 45-50°C

Sure, it could be the GPU working like there is no tommorow, but its the only game i've got this problem, just like FMG.

Not could, but is, as thats exactly what happens when you ask the card to render more and faster. You are perhaps running that AMD stock blower cooler that sounds like a jet engine and performs horribly, vega didn't see many aftermarket models.

Theres nothing wrong with warframe, you just have inadequate cooling, same for OP, anisotropic filtering surely didn't change anything as either 0 or 16x bares hardly any load on the gpu, its a free setting, unlike anti-aliasing.

Theres software (like MSI Afterburner) that can track all these things in real time, and make it very easily verifiable that the game suffers from no particular issue. But more usage, more voltage, higher clocks, more heat being exhausted, and you lack the cooling to address it.

[Soulstrike]

I'm using a custom rig with pretty nice airflow and the vega 56 red dragon (powercolor). Even while using the silent bios (lower frequency etc.) it will cause a tremendous heat problem.
The temperatures are logged to and its just while playing warframe above 100 fps thats causing it.

Care to explain why the card heats up to ~90°C while playing on 120-144fps and the gpu fan doesnt even run(silent mode at and below 50°C) while its lower(or at) than 100 fps?

My old card (r9 390) could run this game(same rig except the vega) on ~90fps without breaking a sweat at the highest setting.

Anyway, its not gamebreaking for me and i'm satisfied with 100fps on warframe and was just chugging in some info for the OP.

[Simple Man]

Silent bios usually only alters the frequency rather than voltage, has that changed? if you undervolt the card im sure you can net far more significant temperature drops. And im not sure i follow on the rest, the card runs hotter when being more, or even fully utilized? well thats the usual, and up to you to monitor its behavior, perhaps after a certain threshold, its using more voltage? im not with the card, i wouldn't know.

You can expose these cooling issues with any synthetic benchmark too. Try running unigine heaven, valley, or 3dmark firestrike, all applications that simulate graphically intensive games, and you'll get the exact same results, probably worse, because those benchmarks are certainly heavier than warframe. A graphics card in proper working condition runs them without breaking a sweat, or going anywhere near 90 celsius.

EDIT: and (re)reading your post, you yourself say that an R9 390 had no such issues, surely the game didn't rush to update just to ruin your vega 56. It was faulty from the getgo.

[orangebish]

Can confirm, have the same problem with Zotac 1070, had framerate unlocked, after lowering it to 75 the temperature dropped significantly. Can play other demanding games without any overheating, it's only Warframe that does this to my videocard.

[Simple Man]

Funny because on the same 1070 but a gygabyte g1 gaming card i can play it at 400 fps for hours on end and it hardly even crosses 60º. That said, tis an absolute shocker that you lowered the cards usage by 30 or 40% and temperatures went down, wow. X-files worthy stuff i reckon. Then you played other games that offer no such loads, and made such terrific conclusions.

Waste of time this, better luck speaking to walls.

[orangebish]

Originally posted by kodiak.pw:

Funny because on the same 1070 but a gygabyte g1 gaming card i can play it at 400 fps for hours on end and it hardly even crosses 60º. That said, tis an absolute shocker that you lowered the cards usage by 30 or 40% and temperatures went down, wow. X-files worthy stuff i reckon. Then you played other games that offer no such loads, and made such terrific conclusions.

Waste of time this, better luck speaking to walls.

Wow, Warframe such loads. So many polygons, so many shaders, so many textures. Give me a break. If you have nothing meaningful to add, then stay in that hole you crawled out of.

[Simple Man]

Perhaps consider learning something, as you clearly own things you know little to nothing about. You're talking about high framerates, and dismiss what that means as a graphics workload, but you ask for adding something meaningful, thats great, you couldn't be more blissfuly ignorant if you tried.

I can record, monitor real time, and screenshot a 1070 playing the game without any issue of "heating up", and the whole time the card will be playing at 59 60 61 celsius with 100% load on it, exact same behaviour it displays anywhere elsewhere that puts it under load, synthetic benchmarks, other games, and so on and so forth.

Now give me a bookie, and i'll put my wallet in there, in that the way warframe heats up your card, is the exact same way firestrike or any game will expose your cooling. If the workloads are much the same then there is nothing that sets them apart, and warframe does absolutely nothing to "heat up my PC" that other applications don't already. Get head out of bum and realise it.

[FMG]

Originally posted by orangebish:

Can confirm, have the same problem with Zotac 1070, had framerate unlocked, after lowering it to 75 the temperature dropped significantly. Can play other demanding games without any overheating, it's only Warframe that does this to my videocard.

Exactly. I can play most AAA games without any problems on high with my 770 lol.
Then warframe heats my PC up like crazy on low?
Not exactly crazy to think something is up with that.

But thanks to everyone for the answers

[Soulstrike]

Originally posted by kodiak.pw:

Silent bios usually only alters the frequency rather than voltage, has that changed? if you undervolt the card im sure you can net far more significant temperature drops. And im not sure i follow on the rest, the card runs hotter when being more, or even fully utilized? well thats the usual, and up to you to monitor its behavior, perhaps after a certain threshold, its using more voltage? im not with the card, i wouldn't know.

You can expose these cooling issues with any synthetic benchmark too. Try running unigine heaven, valley, or 3dmark firestrike, all applications that simulate graphically intensive games, and you'll get the exact same results, probably worse, because those benchmarks are certainly heavier than warframe. A graphics card in proper working condition runs them without breaking a sweat, or going anywhere near 90 celsius.

EDIT: and (re)reading your post, you yourself say that an R9 390 had no such issues, surely the game didn't rush to update just to ruin your vega 56. It was faulty from the getgo.

Just ran some benchmarks (3D mark - firestrike[and several other 3D mark benchs], cinebench, furmark) and the highest temp on all benchs was 75-80°C(average of ~68°C) except on furmark(its more a stress test than a real bench anyway).

I wasn't accusing DE that they tried to sabotage my new card. But its still the only application i can think of thats causing this problem. And its just occuring at 100> fps i might add for whatever reason. The slightly higher workload shouldn't cause a temp increase of 45%.

[BlueBomber]

what resolution btw, if you play like on 4K resolution it will produce more stress and heat ofc

[FMG]

No just full HD

[Dealman]

Y'all really need to stop worrying about temperatures. 70-80*C nowadays is perfectly fine for modern graphics cards, hell, it's the expected working temperature unless you have a very nicely ventilated computer.

Even IF the GPU or CPU would reach dangerous levels, the computer will emergency shutdown to prevent any potential damage.

For crying out loud, you can fix your GPU by baking it in the oven at 190-195*C as it can fix broken solderings. Yet after "baking" it for several minutes at these temps - they still work.

Also, a game doesn't have to look good to be demanding. There are hundreds of other factors in play, all which increase the work the GPU needs to do and as such increasing the temps.