CPU Overheating when starting Raft

[WYRSCH]

So I have a pretty new PC with a Ryzen 9 5900x and a RTX 3080. As soon as I start Raft the CPU hits up to 90 degrees which is just ridiculous...Its load is at about 10-15%.

I have no problems at all in any other games, so the problem is definitely with this game. I've tested games like AC Valhalla, Cyberpunk, Golf It or Read Dead Redemption 2 and the CPU never goes above 65 degrees.

Am I missing something with this game? Does someone have a similar problem with new Ryzen CPUs and knows a fix?
Sadly it makes it unplayable for me.

[Tuss]

Have you tried enabling a FPS cap, or possibly VSync?

[Xas]

Have potato laptop and desktop, game is taxing and heat does goes to as high as 68~72 degrees, on rather large Raft built Rig.

90 degrees is extreme, AMD and its drivers have its fair share of ' heat ' and other issues if you google or type
AMD into the searchbar, many others complain of AMD problems with Raft.

Does your FPS spikes and jitters every few seconds based on Steam FPS or ingame triple ' O ' function.

Troubleshoot, tune all ingame settings to off or fastest,
tweak bios settings, overclocking,
vsync 60 ingame and amd control panel,
for performance, not quality.
Rollback to older, stable driver built,
' Newest ' doesn't always means the ' Best '.
Monitor Taskmanager on spikes of background applications while Raft is running,
conflicts and hardwares issues not included,

see if any helps or changes.
Need some Luck.

[WYRSCH]

I've tried setting to lowest settings on lowest resolution with 30 fps cap, changes nothing, still hits 90 degrees a few seconds in.
I've not overclocked anything. I tried turning SMT off and I've set the game to only use 4 cores but it still heats my cpu that much.

Does changing gpu drivers have an influence? My 3080 runs perfectly fine, not even hitting 55 degrees in this game.

I checked background tasks aswell, nothing is using the cpu much, its usage stays at 15% but still heats up immediately.

[Ceejay]

See you could make the argument you have a cooling issue as you should be able to run your cpu at 100% 24/7 and it should not overheat.

Though given how your system is reacting is a little odd. RD2 is more cpu heavy that raft. so it is indeed a little odd.

Its not directly a ryzen issue, at least not that i know of. My 3600 stays perfectly cool. There might be a bug regarding the 5 series maybe? We shall have to wait till someone else with a 5 series posts.

[WYRSCH]

I've read on reddit from the exact same problem with a 5950x, seems like a 5000 series problem.
'Overheating' was maybe a bit wrong said. It doesn't actually overheat, it is just damn hot for not doing anything.

[Neovan]

I have a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and it is getting hot compared to other games.

Idle: Core: 42°C, Package: 46°C - 49°C
Cyberpunk (maxed out): 58°C, Package: 69°C
!Raft: Core: 71°C, Package: 80°C (the temp goes up to 80°C as soon as I start the game and it doesn´t matter what settings I use, the temp always stays the same).!

The GPU(3080) has the same temp as in other games, maybe Raft has some problems with 5xxx AMD CPUs.

I have a Fractual Design/ Noctua air cooling system so there shouldn´t be any temp problems.

[WYRSCH]

Exact same problem then. Guess I'll wait untill there's a fix for this, not really wanting to play like this...

[Xas]

There were a period when Auto Windows Update, caused some heat, power and flickering graphics personally,
unsure if may relate to your(s),
to ' troubleshoot '
take a look at Bios, Hyperthreading off if available.
Windows settings power, advanced settings, research and lower certain options.
See if any changes.

Disabling Windows Update solved most of my issues, changes in Bios and manually inserting regedits.
All else I would still point my finger at ' AMD ', as with many of my other AMD related posts.


AMD users need some luck.

[Manslaughter]

This is hysterical because I thought to myself "oof, if my laptop's getting hot while I'm playing Raft and the game looks like that (by that I mean not hyper-realistic), I can't even imagine what it's gonna be like when I go and play AC: Origins again". Turns out my laptop was cool and the performance was excellent in Origins, despite having 4K resolution and everything on the highest settings. Raft on the other hand makes my laptop chug and overheat. So yeah, this is Raft-related.

[Partybecher]

Same problem at me.I don't understand how such a buggy and unfinished game can leave the Early Eccess?
I cannot understand all this positiv reviews.