Just bought the game - PC fans are going crazy

[Zombie Slayer]

I have an RTX 4070 and Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32GB RAM. Upon launching the game my PC fans are revving up quite a bit (GPU fans I believe). First thing I did was limit the framerate to 165 (my Hz) and then 100 along with the graphics settings, but it didn't make much difference. This was just on the main menu before I even started playing. The fans are just as loud there too.

Is this happening to anyone else? Are there any settings that are particularly demanding I should turn off? This is only happening in satisfactory.

[Jack-o-Lantern]

Probably you aren't limiting frame per seconds generated by GPU.

Go in settings and:
Set vertical sync on
Set a frameimitsr like 60 that is good enough for a fluid rendering

[Paragon]

Originally posted by Zombie Slayer:

I have an RTX 4070 and Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32GB RAM. Upon launching the game my PC fans are revving up quite a bit (GPU fans I believe). First thing I did was limit the framerate to 165 (my Hz) and then 100 along with the graphics settings, but it didn't make much difference. This was just on the main menu before I even started playing. The fans are just as loud there too.

Is this happening to anyone else? Are there any settings that are particularly demanding I should turn off? This is only happening in satisfactory.

Are your temps spiking?

[AvG]

I set a bunch of the options to medium and my pc cooled down a lot, no issues now.

[Dirtyshadow]

Game defaults to uncapped framerate drop it to match your monitor

[GAMING_Alligator]

My PC does the same. I think it's just a really resource heavy game.

[>< V ><]

If you have an RTX 4070 and you are trying to keep your fans from NOT turning on, then you are probably wasting 60% of your cards power.


It's like trying to drive your car so slowly that you never need your radiator fan.

[McCloud]

That means it's doing what it's suppose to do.

[jamiechi]

Another thing that works for me, is to keep the room temperature at or below 74 degrees F. Satisfactory has always pushed the limits of my system.

My system:

OS Name         Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 22H2
Motherboard     ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - Southbridge X570 r51
Processor       AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core Overclocked to 4.2 Ghz
Memory          64 GB -- 3200 MHZ
Video Card      NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, 8 GB memory

[TH3R4BB!T]

Originally posted by jamiechi:

Another thing that works for me, is to keep the room temperature at or below 74 degrees F. Satisfactory has always pushed the limits of my system.

My system:

OS Name         Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 22H2
Motherboard     ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO - Southbridge X570 r51
Processor       AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8-Core Overclocked to 4.2 Ghz
Memory          64 GB -- 3200 MHZ
Video Card      NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, 8 GB memory

After adding -dx11 (for my 20 series nvidea) to the launch options the heating was 'gone' mostly. Only when lots and lots of products are moving it still heats a little

[Zombie Slayer]

Thanks for the replies everyone. So I monitored the CPU and GPU while the game was running and temps are not as bad as I thought. GPU sits at around 65 degrees at 43% fan speed. The CPU hovers around the mid 40s with the fans barely moving. This is with high settings on a brand new save.

The GPU fans sounded like they were much faster than that. When I close the game the speed goes to 30% which is almost unnoticeable. Strange that a 10-15% increase is that significant.

[stratakarius]

definitely cap the frames at 60fps. I used to do 90 and my fans did the same. 60 is no problem.

[Shawn]

Originally posted by Zombie Slayer:

Thanks for the replies everyone. So I monitored the CPU and GPU while the game was running and temps are not as bad as I thought. GPU sits at around 65 degrees at 43% fan speed. The CPU hovers around the mid 40s with the fans barely moving. This is with high settings on a brand new save.

The GPU fans sounded like they were much faster than that. When I close the game the speed goes to 30% which is almost unnoticeable. Strange that a 10-15% increase is that significant.

Look up undervolting the gpu. You’ll be amazed how much cooler it runs when it is using a more sensible amount of power, rather than the one size fits all approach the manufacturers use.

[Zombie Slayer]

Setting the game to 80fps seems to have calmed things down a bit. Graphics all on high except textures which are ultra. Annoyingly the screen percentage setting keeps reverting to 75%.

[Scissorhands]

people suggesting cap the game at 60fps are monsters. I refuse to live like a peasant again after getting a 165hz monitor. You can absolutely see and feel the difference between 60 and 165fps

[Nefai]

Try using Nvidia GeForce to cap the frame rate instead of using game settings. I had the same issue in menus and when I was alt tabbed out of the game, where the frame cap stopped working.

I have an AMD GPU, so I used Afterburner to cap FPS instead of game settings, but it should be the same in GeForce