How to prevent my laptop from overheating while playing

[ChronoLocke]

My only option right now is to play this game on a laptop. It looks amazing and runs like butter but it does heat up my laptop quite a bit more than any of my other games. I want to play longer sessions but this does worry me.

Pretty much all of the graphical options are checked. I'm willing to sacrifice a bit of graphical quality if it means my laptop won't overheat and I can play longer sessions.

Which graphics options should I mess with to try and cool off my laptop while playing?

[[Meyo]Frakura]

Play around with the settings to see which one fit, its quite vague by just saying a laptop. You could try using a air fan thing.

[Agathocles69]

Reducing the "amazing" look will cool down the laptop maye a bit.
i mean the graphic settings

[Timeraider]

Is Vsync or any other framelimiter also on?

[ChronoLocke]

Originally posted by Timeraider Duskclaw Ebon Hall:

Is Vsync or any other framelimiter also on?

No Vsync or framelimiter.

[BlazeRomulus]

what kind of laptop do you have anyway? Is it new ? if not did you bother to clean it? Maybe it ran out of thermal paste.

Mind you laptops have built in thermal limiters (new ones at least) so your laptop won't get damaged but you will notice a lot of slow downs.

[OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO]

That is simply a downside to laptops. Unless you turn the settings down to potato levels, your GPU/CPU are both going to be doing too much work and pulling enough power that it will heat your laptop to the point of burning your legs regardless of the settings.

I don't know what GPU/CPU you're running, but even if you're only pulling normal temps for a desktop, it's still going to be super hot because of the compact design of laptops in general.

Your resolution is the largest factor in performance / stress on your machine. Second would be anti-aliasing and particle effects.

Turn all of those down by half, and you might get another 30 mins before the laptop temps shoot up. However, your best bet is to just play your laptop in a cool area / on a cool surface. Unless you're getting blue screens, your system isn't going to be damaged. (The manufacturer will have put safeguards in place that force a shutdown if the system temps reach a certain threshold to the point where they would be damaging your computer.)

[WintryYapper]

Originally posted by OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:

That is simply a downside to laptops. Unless you turn the settings down to potato levels, your GPU/CPU are both going to be doing too much work and pulling enough power that it will heat your laptop to the point of burning your legs regardless of the settings.

I don't know what GPU/CPU you're running, but even if you're only pulling normal temps for a desktop, it's still going to be super hot because of the compact design of laptops in general.

Your resolution is the largest factor in performance / stress on your machine. Second would be anti-aliasing and particle effects.

Turn all of those down by half, and you might get another 30 mins before the laptop temps shoot up. However, your best bet is to just play your laptop in a cool area / on a cool surface. Unless you're getting blue screens, your system isn't going to be damaged. (The manufacturer will have put safeguards in place that force a shutdown if the system temps reach a certain threshold to the point where they would be damaging your computer.)

Would you tell me the normal temps for desktops maxed out for warframe?
My laptop's GPU runs around 50's and sometimes 60 while my cpu runs at low 70's
Is that safe?

[✨Saint✨]

I used to play on a Acer laptop. On heavy gaming or when gaming for a long period of time my laptop used to overheat at such point to actually shut down completely.
So, I got myself a good laptop cooler and that solved the problem for me at that time.

[julyan]

You can try to reduce the max. usage of your CPU in the power options menu. I set mine from 100% to 95% and got a noticable temperature decrease with basically the same performance.

[Grottowalker]

this was my home brew fix.

all the extra laptop fans on the market are pretty weak and do not get the job done.

what i had was an large old fan from one of my 90's computers, it had strong airflow and ran off 12 volts.
i attached a 12v wallwart to it then made a box platform for my laptop to sit on.
from there i created a hole in the box; on the part that the laptop would have the air intake as the laptop was resting on the box.
then i took 2 clear garbage bags can ducktaped them into a tube like shape, one end was attached to the fan and the other end went into a second hole on the side of the box.

this alone worked well at increasing the cooling of my laptop.
during the winter i would even have the fan pulling air from my window.

if you are checking your temps when playing, for most modern systems- 70c degrees would be the threshold- where as most laptops and computers have an auto shut off at around 90c degrees. the games that i was running core temps of around 60-70 were brought down about 20-30 degrees.

the problem is that most laptops are made out of plastic or solid metal, both of which are not that good at thermal transfer..

[Timeraider]

Originally posted by BattleJuice:

Originally posted by Timeraider Duskclaw Ebon Hall:

Is Vsync or any other framelimiter also on?

No Vsync or framelimiter.

Well... turning on vsync for example could help. Makes it so that your laptop doesnt pull out all the plugs for an overdose of unnessecary fps

[serker31]

Originally posted by Timeraider Duskclaw Ebon Hall:

Well... turning on vsync for example could help. Makes it so that your laptop doesnt pull out all the plugs for an overdose of unnessecary fps

This. No Vsync or frame limiter - your laprtop dishes out as much frames per second as it can at 100% hardware performance. Limit required frames - CPU and GPU load will be lower, temperature will be lower. I doubt its display will show more than 60 frames per second anyway.

[Temora]

Originally posted by WintryYapper-{A★T}-:

Originally posted by OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:

That is simply a downside to laptops. Unless you turn the settings down to potato levels, your GPU/CPU are both going to be doing too much work and pulling enough power that it will heat your laptop to the point of burning your legs regardless of the settings.

I don't know what GPU/CPU you're running, but even if you're only pulling normal temps for a desktop, it's still going to be super hot because of the compact design of laptops in general.

Your resolution is the largest factor in performance / stress on your machine. Second would be anti-aliasing and particle effects.

Turn all of those down by half, and you might get another 30 mins before the laptop temps shoot up. However, your best bet is to just play your laptop in a cool area / on a cool surface. Unless you're getting blue screens, your system isn't going to be damaged. (The manufacturer will have put safeguards in place that force a shutdown if the system temps reach a certain threshold to the point where they would be damaging your computer.)

Would you tell me the normal temps for desktops maxed out for warframe?
My laptop's GPU runs around 50's and sometimes 60 while my cpu runs at low 70's
Is that safe?

Your temperatures are perfectly safe. In fact, heat damage only really occurs at around 90 Celsius, so you're perfectly fine. Mine runs at around 70 aswell.

However, changing thermal paste is pretty much the only thing you can do to lower temperatures. You'll save around 10-15 Celsius in some cases.

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