Why is dying light running so hot?

[Mr Fantastic]

I'm trying to replay the game since last time I played was long ago on a laptop I would now call a potato and it ran fine.

But it's running super hot on my 2080ti what's causing that? I starts right at the main menu, which is super strange.

[Anejey]

Since you said it ran fine "long ago", it could be just a dust build-up inside the fan.

It could also be just a minor software problem somewhere, but it never hurts to clean the fan.

[Mr Fantastic]

Originally posted by Anejey:

Since you said it ran fine "long ago", it could be just a dust build-up inside the fan.

It could also be just a minor software problem somewhere, but it never hurts to clean the fan.

That's not what I said my dude, I said I used to play it fine on a trash laptop, and now it runs like crap on a high end desktop.

[monkeydonobiz]

I think there's a way to enhance your graphic card, i'm not entirely sure if it's called overclock or it's another thing. The point is that, once i wanted more fps with mine and i did an adjusment bassed on a yt video. And it worked!!
Try to find sth in yt or internet more specific about your components, it may help
Like, I play on a 1660 and Dying Ligth runs on +90 fps
Good luck!

[Anejey]

Originally posted by Mr Fantastic:

Originally posted by Anejey:

Since you said it ran fine "long ago", it could be just a dust build-up inside the fan.

It could also be just a minor software problem somewhere, but it never hurts to clean the fan.

That's not what I said my dude, I said I used to play it fine on a trash laptop, and now it runs like crap on a high end desktop.

Alright, my mistake.

[McPhil]

What is "Super-hot"? Any programm to measure the heat?

[Mr Fantastic]

Originally posted by McPhil:

What is "Super-hot"? Any programm to measure the heat?

With fans on, unlike most other games, when it should run perfectly without needing any fans besides the GPU's, I finished days gone, a much more recent and supposedly resource demanding game and it never made the PC require the fans for cooling.

Doesn't necessarily mean overheating the PC, it's just annoying to me since even with a noise cancelling headset I can still hear the fans going. At least it's not like cyberpunk at release which made my PC corner feel like a sauna.

I also get the ocasional mini frame drop as well when something more intense happens.

I know this can be somewhat nitpicking, but bad optimization in such an old game really lowers my expectations for the upcoming sequel.

[deeper]

Originally posted by Mr Fantastic:

But it's running super hot on my 2080ti what's causing that? I starts right at the main menu, which is super strange.

What's the ambient temperature like where you are, is it summer? I'm in the UK and it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ roastin'.

Do you play with V-Sync on? If not then your hardware is going to tear through the game, producing an unnecessarily high framerate (mine is only 60fps due to the limitations of my monitor). I've no experience with G-Sync (which you might have) so I don't really know how that works in relation to framerates.

I've noticed with many games I've played that V-Sync doesn't apply to menus and because of this you get a stupidly high framerate. I once had a GPU that had terrible coil whine but only on menus and this is the reason why.

[Mr Fantastic]

Originally posted by deeper:

Originally posted by Mr Fantastic:

But it's running super hot on my 2080ti what's causing that? I starts right at the main menu, which is super strange.

What's the ambient temperature like where you are, is it summer? I'm in the UK and it's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ roastin'.

Do you play with V-Sync on? If not then your hardware is going to tear through the game, producing an unnecessarily high framerate (mine is only 60fps due to the limitations of my monitor). I've no experience with G-Sync (which you might have) so I don't really know how that works in relation to framerates.

I've noticed with many games I've played that V-Sync doesn't apply to menus and because of this you get a stupidly high framerate. I once had a GPU that had terrible coil whine but only on menus and this is the reason why.

I always play with vsync on because I have an UW screen. My apartment is always at around 27 degrees.

My nvidia control panel caps FPS to 60 to all games.

[deeper]

Originally posted by Mr Fantastic:

I always play with vsync on because I have an UW screen. My apartment is always at around 27 degrees.

My nvidia control panel caps FPS to 60 to all games.

Well, that's that theory ruled out. Have you had a play with adjusting graphics options one at a time, draw distance, AA type and such?

[Mr Fantastic]

Originally posted by deeper:

Originally posted by Mr Fantastic:

I always play with vsync on because I have an UW screen. My apartment is always at around 27 degrees.

My nvidia control panel caps FPS to 60 to all games.

Well, that's that theory ruled out. Have you had a play with adjusting graphics options one at a time, draw distance, AA type and such?

Just rechecked nvidia control panel and the settings were reset to default, I put the 60FPS cap again and now the fans don't turn on when I start the game.

Seems this is an old problem with the game in which menus are allocated infinite FPSs so any machine not limiting it's fps via 3rd party software will most likely experience overheating issues.

It's kinda strange they never solved this.

[deeper]

Originally posted by Mr Fantastic:

Just rechecked nvidia control panel and the settings were reset to default, I put the 60FPS cap again and now the fans don't turn on when I start the game.

Seems this is an old problem with the game in which menus are allocated infinite FPSs so any machine not limiting it's fps via 3rd party software will most likely experience overheating issues.

It's kinda strange they never solved this.

Excellent. Certainly an issue if you have a laptop, probably not as noticeable on a desktop.

Like I said, lots of games operate the same, I don't know why it's a generally overlooked issue.

[Last Hope]

also a reminder this game does not run well on laptop

[Mr Fantastic]

Originally posted by deeper:

Originally posted by Mr Fantastic:

Just rechecked nvidia control panel and the settings were reset to default, I put the 60FPS cap again and now the fans don't turn on when I start the game.

Seems this is an old problem with the game in which menus are allocated infinite FPSs so any machine not limiting it's fps via 3rd party software will most likely experience overheating issues.

It's kinda strange they never solved this.

Excellent. Certainly an issue if you have a laptop, probably not as noticeable on a desktop.

Like I said, lots of games operate the same, I don't know why it's a generally overlooked issue.

My current machine is a desktop. If there's infinite frames on menus it will affect any machine equality. If fact the more expensive your machine the worse this issue is, because infinite fpss is basically the same thing as mining which causes a lot of tear in the hardware.

[deeper]

Originally posted by Mr Fantastic:

My current machine is a desktop.

Ah, I see. Probably because currently most technical issues here are for laptops I wrongly assumed that's what you had.

[RabbitRidge]

Originally posted by Mr Fantastic:

I know this can be somewhat nitpicking, but bad optimization in such an old game really lowers my expectations for the upcoming sequel.

Originally posted by Mr Fantastic:

Just rechecked nvidia control panel and the settings were reset to default, I put the 60FPS cap again and now the fans don't turn on when I start the game.

Seems this is an old problem with the game in which menus are allocated infinite FPSs so any machine not limiting it's fps via 3rd party software will most likely experience overheating issues.

It's kinda strange they never solved this.

Doesn't sound like a game issue to me, more like using GeForce Experience Performance Tuning (OC tool).