PC overheats when playing Rocket League

[Gamer Geek NL]

I used to play rocket league every single day, its my favorite game and i still want to play it every day but i cant. my pc keeps overheating when i play rocket league after about 20 minutes of being in-game. usually it didnt happen, it started happening when i moved into my new house. can someone help me out please? i cant get better coolers because i dont have money and my parents wont allow me to. i have installed msi afterburner but idk how to use it so if someone knows how to please help me. if needed i can send my pc specs.

[Volodesi]

Over-heats how? Need PC specs and what temps you're seeing.

As long as CPU is 70C or lower and GPU is 90C or lower. It's not really considered over-heating.

[Gamer Geek NL]

whenever it happens my whole screen turns black as if its off and my computer starts overheating (i can hear it very loudly) i will send specs as soon as i can. to check the temperature it goes to i will need to play rocket league and use msi afterburner so that might take longer

[the_lone_ran9er]

Originally posted by Gamer Geek NL:

I used to play rocket league every single day, its my favorite game and i still want to play it every day but i cant. my pc keeps overheating when i play rocket league after about 20 minutes of being in-game. usually it didnt happen, it started happening when i moved into my new house. can someone help me out please? i cant get better coolers because i dont have money and my parents wont allow me to. i have installed msi afterburner but idk how to use it so if someone knows how to please help me. if needed i can send my pc specs.

If it's overheating you can clean the dust out of the heat sinks/filters/fans. If that's not enough then you can remove the heat sink from the processor, clean the thermal paste off which can become hardened and chalky over time, replace it with fresh thermal paste which can be had for very cheap. tutorials on youtube.

That's IF it's actually overheating. Could be your power supply giving out.

[Gamer Geek NL]

Originally posted by the_lone_ran9er:

Originally posted by Gamer Geek NL:

I used to play rocket league every single day, its my favorite game and i still want to play it every day but i cant. my pc keeps overheating when i play rocket league after about 20 minutes of being in-game. usually it didnt happen, it started happening when i moved into my new house. can someone help me out please? i cant get better coolers because i dont have money and my parents wont allow me to. i have installed msi afterburner but idk how to use it so if someone knows how to please help me. if needed i can send my pc specs.

If it's overheating you can clean the dust out of the heat sinks/filters/fans. If that's not enough then you can remove the heat sink from the processor, clean the thermal paste off which can become hardened and chalky over time, replace it with fresh thermal paste which can be had for very cheap. tutorials on youtube.

That's IF it's actually overheating. Could be your power supply giving out.

the thing is. im 14 years old and idk how to get inside my pc. and if i do find a way to get in there (probably just open the case) the only thing i will be able to do is remove the dust since i cant buy anything and i dont know anything about computers. and if i have to buy anything, my parents wont allow it because they will just say that its my fault that my pc doesnt work for that game.

[tokay]

Originally posted by Gamer Geek NL:

Originally posted by the_lone_ran9er:

If it's overheating you can clean the dust out of the heat sinks/filters/fans. If that's not enough then you can remove the heat sink from the processor, clean the thermal paste off which can become hardened and chalky over time, replace it with fresh thermal paste which can be had for very cheap. tutorials on youtube.

That's IF it's actually overheating. Could be your power supply giving out.

the thing is. im 14 years old and idk how to get inside my pc. and if i do find a way to get in there (probably just open the case) the only thing i will be able to do is remove the dust since i cant buy anything and i dont know anything about computers. and if i have to buy anything, my parents wont allow it because they will just say that its my fault that my pc doesnt work for that game.

Download GPU-Z and it will show you if you're overheating. You're going to see red lines under PerfCap Reason. This only applies to the GPU.

[Gamer Geek NL]

Originally posted by tokay:

Originally posted by Gamer Geek NL:

the thing is. im 14 years old and idk how to get inside my pc. and if i do find a way to get in there (probably just open the case) the only thing i will be able to do is remove the dust since i cant buy anything and i dont know anything about computers. and if i have to buy anything, my parents wont allow it because they will just say that its my fault that my pc doesnt work for that game.

Download GPU-Z and it will show you if you're overheating. You're going to see red lines under PerfCap Reason. This only applies to the GPU.

ill try it, thank you.

[Gamer Geek NL]

https://imgur.com/kwJot5z
heres my computer specs. hope its enough.
i will post a reply with how high my temperature gets while playing rocket league right before it overheats my pc. i will ask my dad to help me clean out the dust in my pc later. (like i said, im 14 and i barely know anything and can do almost nothing by myself :P)

[LordFastTrakz]

Do you have another Graphics Card in the PC (Dedicated GPU)? or are you running the graphics thats integrated in the i5-8400 intel chip, also are you using the stock cooler, from what you have said till this point I don't imagine you have made any aftermarket upgrades to improve CPU temps but I need to ask.

[Gamer Geek NL]

Originally posted by LordFastTrakz:

Do you have another Graphics Card in the PC (Dedicated GPU)? or are you running the graphics thats integrated in the i5-8400 intel chip, also are you using the stock cooler, from what you have said till this point I don't imagine you have made any aftermarket upgrades to improve CPU temps but I need to ask.

no, i havent. i bought my pc as it is now and havent bought any upgrades to it because im not allowed to. also, currently rocket league gets my gpu to 72C and my max is 83 (i use msi afterburner and im keeping my fan limit to 100%, which makes the temp limit 83C) but it normally used to go over 90. my cpu temp i cant see with msi afterburner or idk how to see it.

[Volodesi]

Originally posted by Gamer Geek NL:

no, i havent. i bought my pc as it is now and havent bought any upgrades to it because im not allowed to. also, currently rocket league gets my gpu to 72C and my max is 83 (i use msi afterburner and im keeping my fan limit to 100%, which makes the temp limit 83C)

Sounds like you have something else wrong. Cause those GPU temps are perfectly fine. GPU's will lower their clock speeds to prevent damage or shut downs. Also, you do have a dedicated GPU - or MSI Afterburner would not show you anything.

Probably isn't CPU over heating either. CPU is only hit hard on game boot and loading screens.

If the PC is just shutting off under load. It's probably a Power supply issue.

Only other suggestion I can make is limiting your FPS to keep the load down.

[Gamer Geek NL]

then why do i hear my pc very loudly when it shuts down, i dont understand. normally it would go over 90 but now it stayed at 72. also it sometimes shut my pc down at around 80 so i just dont understand it.

[Volodesi]

Originally posted by Gamer Geek NL:

then why do i hear my pc very loudly when it shuts down, i dont understand. normally it would go over 90 but now it stayed at 72. also it sometimes shut my pc down at around 80 so i just dont understand it.

PC's are designed to spin fans to max speed if something is wrong. Especially if it's hardware related. Just as two examples. If a GPU has two fans and one dies - the other fan will spin at full blast until it is fixed. Ex 2. You can remove the side case on a workstation computer, and it causes the fans to spin to max speed until the side is put back on.

If you're not tech savvy enough to work on your PC yourself. Find someone who can take a look at it. Fans spinning up to full speed and a shutdown is usually a hardware issue.

[Gamer Geek NL]

thanks. but why does it only happen with rocket league and no other game, app, program, etc.
thats the thing that is bothering me. it only happens with my favorite game.

[tokay]

Originally posted by Gamer Geek NL:

thanks. but why does it only happen with rocket league and no other game, app, program, etc.
thats the thing that is bothering me. it only happens with my favorite game.

Rocket league never runs at really high core clocks at least for me so no way it is overheating. You running overclock? That's how a GPU driver crash looks like due to instability. It looks like it but it doesn't mean that it actually is in your case.

[Gamer Geek NL]

i wish i could record what happens and post it so you could see what i mean but my pc shuts down so the recording will go away too. i might be able to record on my phone but then it will either be a half hour video or my gpu will stay at 72C like yesterday. or go in a discord call with someone and show them but that wont work either.