Overheating

[psy4naut]

i play many other games without problem. but this game is cooking my pc. anyone has this issue?

[wollem]

only at the character selection screen in main menu. Runs my gpu like a stress test for some reason

[AmaiAmai]

Not sure how you can overheat in this game. If that is happening it's your configuration. You can always cap frames with your GPU driver's software or just turn it on in the ESO graphics options.

It's not like more frames matter in this game anyway -- the animations are bad and don't look any more fluid, and it certainly won't help you in PvP unless you have 20-40 ping all the time like me.

[Swans]

Strange, as the game is very light on requirements, being low quality, old school, graphics. What is overheating, GPU or CPU?

[Simply Booba]

Yeeah..you running uncapped framerate? It really shouldn't be skyrocketting beyond your monitor's refresh rate unless you decided to go with no sync at all. In which case..there's your issue. If vsync from ESO isn't working for you (for some reason), just cap it at the GPU level instead in either nvidia app or..whatever radeon uses.

[TheCr33pur]

Originally posted by Swans:

Strange, as the game is very light on requirements, being low quality, old school, graphics. What is overheating, GPU or CPU?

Probably both, a potato computer. All need to do is reduce the graphic settings such as show mapping, etc. Lower the resolution help too.

If that player doesnt have enough airflow in that case, then that a bad idea. Or even in a hot room or environment too.

[fulf]

gaming laptop fans always running at full-blast, yes. not actually overheating but still very concerning lol
(2021 so more than capable of running the game, fps capped as well)

[TheTrippyHippie]

If your system is over heating or fans really loud then go in settings set refresh rate to 60hz if it's not already set to 60hz then turn VSYNC on.

This will fix the issues of over heating

if your fans are still really loud then you need a better cooling solution for your cpu and most likely better System cooling.

If it's on a laptop and it still really loud then you will most likely have to live with it because that's the price you pay due to the extremely minimal space it has to pull cool air and extract the hot air.

This game can be very heavy on the CPU and GPU if you turn VSYNC off, basically you are allowing the game engine to thrash your PC or laptop as hard as it can.

I used to have an AMD R9 5900X 12 core 24 Thread CPU, if I disabled VSYNC then the game in certain areas could use up to 100% of the CPU causing the CPU fans and system fans to ramp up and sound like a plane is taking off lol

enabling VSYNC resolves the issue by limiting the FPS to the refresh rate of your display/monitor 60hz 60fps.

Which in return helps keep your GPU and CPU a lot more quite and cooler.

I'd better add :

BUT if you have an old lower end GPU or even a modern lowest end GPU and you still have a loud fan on the GPU even on the lowest settings

That could be 1 of 3 things or all of them :

1. The GPU is maxed due to being old architecture running much newer software (game engine) or it's a really low spec card.
2. The cooling system on the GPU is very low end old or new GPU's
3. Heat sink is full of dust and fluff and really needs a good clean. (old, new, low end or even high end GPU's)

[x ohh 369]

if ur running specs older than 6 years you'll definitely have issues.

[TheTrippyHippie]

Originally posted by x ohh 369:

if ur running specs older than 6 years you'll definitely have issues.

clearly you have no understanding about hardware lol

[Swans]

Originally posted by x ohh 369:

if ur running specs older than 6 years you'll definitely have issues.

That's simply wrong.

ESO is a very old game, with basic graphics, and over time the developer has improved its optimisation from how it was at launch 10 years ago. Consequently, old hardware can run ESO without breaking a sweat.

[TheTrippyHippie]

Originally posted by Swans:

Originally posted by x ohh 369:

if ur running specs older than 6 years you'll definitely have issues.

That's simply wrong.

ESO is a very old game, with basic graphics, and over time the developer has improved its optimisation from how it was at launch 10 years ago. Consequently, old hardware can run ESO without breaking a sweat.

They have no understanding of hardware that is 100% fact

Because if they did they would of never of posted such a ridiculous comment.

BTW I have been playing/messing around with hardware and setups for the best part of 26 years.

[cheshirm]

go to folder
Documents\Elder Scrolls Online\live
delete or rename file UserSettings.txt
try the game again
maybe one or more of the settings are corrupt

if you have an nvidia card, use the nvidia app to optimize the game and try those graphics settings. maybe the nvidia settings work better than the ones the game thinks you should use.

[B R O K E N]

Originally posted by TheTrippyHippie:

Originally posted by Swans:

That's simply wrong.

ESO is a very old game, with basic graphics, and over time the developer has improved its optimisation from how it was at launch 10 years ago. Consequently, old hardware can run ESO without breaking a sweat.

They have no understanding of hardware that is 100% fact

Because if they did they would of never of posted such a ridiculous comment.

BTW I have been playing/messing around with hardware and setups for the best part of 26 years.

Seems to work just fine on my q6600 and 550ti.

[TheTrippyHippie]

Originally posted by B R O K E N:

Originally posted by TheTrippyHippie:

They have no understanding of hardware that is 100% fact

Because if they did they would of never of posted such a ridiculous comment.

BTW I have been playing/messing around with hardware and setups for the best part of 26 years.

Seems to work just fine on my q6600 and 550ti.

I don't have a system that old but that would not surprise me.

well i have parts that are as old and older but not enough parts that are compatible with each other to build a complete PC out of the the parts I have laying around

The oldest hardware I played ESO on was an old GTX980 and the cpu was the first version of AMD's Ryzen R5 1600 (Zen1)

That is how and why I know that the person who posted the ridiculous comment (quoted at the bottom of this post) does not know what they are talking about.

Originally posted by x ohh 369:

if ur running specs older than 6 years you'll definitely have issues.

[TheTrippyHippie]

Originally posted by Swans:

Strange, as the game is very light on requirements, being low quality, old school, graphics. What is overheating, GPU or CPU?

I beg to differ

From my testing by monitoring CPU, System Ram, GPU, Vram and Power Draw with VSYNC disabled the game will try and max out the PC hardware to try and reach the game engine's max FPS setting.

I cant remember exactly But trying to think back, the PC game engine is locked to 100FPS if i remember correctly but there is a way to unlock that limit, but even with the 100fps limit

in some area's of the game with VSYNC disabled I could watch my CPU jump up to 100% usage and that was the R9 5900X 12 core 24 threaded CPU a beast of a CPU in it's day.

It would not be at 100% CPU usage 100% of the time but would jump up to 100%

Suggesting to me that this game can be very CPU heavy if you run the game with VSYNC disabled.

I am not saying the game wont run on older hardware but I am saying this game can be Very CPU heavy from my testing.

This is the type of stuff I used to do for about 26 years, I love PC hardware and I love testing, bench marking, monitoring hardware, setup and building PC's etc I have configured and built and sold literally well over 100 PC's in my time for friends and charity, it's what I used to do for fun.