Firewatch wants to burn down my gpu.

[Don Francisco]

First of all, specs:

i7 4790k
32GB ram
GTX 980 ti

So, whenever I try to play this game my gpu temps (and only my gpu temps) get extremely high (80c), this is the only game that does this, I can run GTA V with almost all max and it wont go more than 65c however Firewatch pushes my gpu to 80c?

I am using the latest geforce drivers (361.91 as of today).

Please help, this is the only game that does this to my GPU, i've already tried playing on low settings and no luck, it still pushes my temps ectremly high...

[Charlie]

That temp isn't high; GPUs are designed to handle temps like this - most cards can go well past 90c into the low 100s.

If it really bothers you just enable V-Sync or cap the fps; otherwise the GPU will be working at 100% usage trying to give you the highest framerate.

[Don Francisco]

Considering this is the ONLY game that makes my gpu produce such temps, yes, they are pretty high temps.

And of course it bothers me, out of all the games in my account, THIS is the one that makes my gpu break 80c?

Listen, I'm not trying to slam the game, I liked this game ever since since it was announced, that why I preordered, but there's something wrong.

[Charlie]

Originally posted by Don Francisco:

Considering this is the ONLY game that makes my gpu produce such temps, yes, they are pretty high temps.

80c is fine but whatever...

And of course it bothers me, out of all the games in my account, THIS is the one that makes my gpu break 80c?

Maybe this game is more shader intensive, maybe you have V-Sync enabled on other games but not Firewatch (I can guarantee this is it), maybe you have DSR enabled... There are tonnes of possibilities, none of them are worth worrying about

Listen, I'm not trying to slam the game, I liked this game ever since since it was announced, that why I preordered, but there's something wrong.

Nothing is wrong, 80c is perfectly within the safe-zone for a GTX 980 Ti.
The 980 Ti is rated upto 92c... That's for the reference model; 3rd paty GPUs may even be rated higher.

[Satoru]

Note that 'my card is running hot' is a cooling problem not a game problem

[Don Francisco]

Read my original post, I already tried playing with all the settings down to low and without all the fancy stuff like v-sync and whatnot.

Literally as soon as I start the game gpu fans start to spin up almost at max, check afterburner or speccy or gpuz? see the temps steadily climbing...

This is not even ingame mind you, just in the main menu the temps go up to 80c...

So cool, the graphics card can handle up to 90 something degrees, but is this game supposed to push my gpu this hard, even on low settings? and on the main menu?

[Don Francisco]

Originally posted by Satoru:

Note that 'my card is running hot' is a cooling problem not a game problem

It's not a cooling problem because my idle temps are 35c which is normal idle temps, and as I already said this is the only game that pushes my gpu this hard, even with all low settings.

[Charlie]

Graphical Settings barely have any affect on GPU temps; even if you run it at low settings a well programmed game will still push the GPU to its max - It's called utilization.

If 80c bothers you just enable V-Sync; that way the game will only push your GPU up to your monitors refresh rate - which is usually 60hz.

If you still get 80c are you running DSR, what resolution are you pushing? Any overclocks or overvolts - Revert them....

ergo: 80c is fine.

FYI The GTX 480 would commonly go above 100c under load

[Don Francisco]

Already tried with v-sync on and off, same results, resolution is 1920 x 1080.

Also FYI, Many 480 owners reported their cards actually spitting fire, that was the card that gave origin to the house fire meme, so that's a bad example.

[Satoru]

Originally posted by Don Francisco:

It's not a cooling problem because my idle temps are 35c which is normal idle temps, and as I already said this is the only game that pushes my gpu this hard, even with all low settings.

Again this is a common confusion

Whether the game 'should' be using all the GPU is irrelevant. If GPUs could not be 100% utilized, then bitcoin mining program, Folding@Home, Prime number searchers, CUDA programs would all be 'wrong' because they 'cause high temps'

High temperatures are a cooling problem. Those can be addressed by adjusting your fan profile for when it hits specific temperatures to cool it down.

Again regardless of whether the game should use your GPU that much is NOT related to 'its running hot'.

You may say 'the game uses a lot of my GPU'.
You can NOT say 'that causes it to run hot'

[Don Francisco]

Also no overclocks or underclocks, cpu and gpu both stock.

[Don Francisco]

missing the point, satoru.

Yes I know under load a gpu will get high temps, my argument is whether this game really needs that much gpu power even with all low settings and no fancy graphic options that it will still push my gpu so hard, and again, not even ingame, but on the main menu.

Also, I do use a custom fan profile, that's how I noticed my temps were so high, because the fans were running at almost 100%

[Charlie]

80c is fine; I even just loaded up Firewatch, 1080p, max settings with V-Sync on and I reached 78c after a few minutes - GTX 970

Probably just shader intensive...

[CalibanHUN]

Originally posted by Don Francisco:

First of all, specs:

i7 4790k
32GB ram
GTX 980 ti

So, whenever I try to play this game my gpu temps (and only my gpu temps) get extremely high (80c), this is the only game that does this, I can run GTA V with almost all max and it wont go more than 65c however Firewatch pushes my gpu to 80c?

I am using the latest geforce drivers (361.91 as of today).

Please help, this is the only game that does this to my GPU, i've already tried playing on low settings and no luck, it still pushes my temps ectremly high...

I know what you are talking about, same thing here: I have a Radeon 285 (with 16.3.2 drivers), and I never experienced higher temperature on my card before than 79-80c. With Firewatch it goes up quickly to 87c, and my gpu fan spins like hell... Once after playing for about one hour it started to do white spot artifacts (especially when you rappel), that few minutes later the gpu shut done (no monitor signal, the computer itself goes on). I reset the computer, thank god, no damage... I think it reached maximum safe temperature, and did a safety shutdown...

I don't know, why is this game so demanding on gpus, but i think it is a bug...

A perfect game otherwise!

[PapaChungus]

I third the problem. This entire game is basically one big Furmark run - Im maxed out 4K and pulling betwen 28-45 FPS on average on a damn Fury X! It uses more wattage than BF4 - more amperage (I'm using various tools to measure things as I go about the overclocking process) puilled than any game or benchmark outside of Furmark and causes the VRMs to get so hot (in a fully kitted out Phanteks Enthoo Luxe with 100% case fan speed) it throttles after half an hour or so. Its an artistic game with deliberately weak graphics - it has no business running so damn poorly on the top end hardware.