Sudden loud CPU/Case Fans

[Captain Apples]

Ryzen 3900x
3080 GTX

The game loads fine. After 5-10 minutes of playing (or after jumping into the water), my CPU (and maybe case fans?!) seem to ramp up to 100%.

This only happens in THIS game. CPU/GPU loads are far from 100%. I've noticed my GPU is reaching super high temps despite only taking a 40-60% load.

I've tried lowering settings and updating drivers...no luck.

Anybody have a fix for this?

[Gamga]

Here a helpful guide:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2827319091

[Xas]

type ' AMD ' into the main search bar for references.

[Captain Apples]

Thanks friends

[Captain Apples]

Unfortunately, the issue persists. CPU doesn't reach higher than 32 degrees. GPU runs around 90, but that's honestly normal for me (Dying Light 2 Ray Traced at 4K...same temps but no fans blasting away...)

I'm really perplexed as to what's causing this. Been monitoring with Ryzen Master and everything seems fine...even when running stress tests.

The issue persists when setting the GPU fan to 100%, too.

[Whalespy]

What kind of FPS are you getting? Sounds maybe like the FPS in game aren't limited so your system is playing the game at probably hundreds of FPS, which would explain the temps and fan speed.

[Xas]

Little relevant details, only talk of problem, but
As much as want to help,
we have no ' crystal ball '.
Too hard to interpret what is happening with your system.

If you had really searched relevant ' AMD ' topic and read, should have read the troubleshooting and options to look at, one could provide.
All else are system based settings, power settings, bios, driver control panel settings, resolution option, hardware issues.

AMD, expects to get hotter than usual, for ' this ' game,
BIOS tweaks, ( much to research into )
Tweak GPU control menu. ( much to look at into, aim for performance, not quality,
vsync forced on, Computer Optimize performance ~ off, ... )
OS Power advance settings ( people are simply altering the processor power management % option, some may work, others may not, there are ways to inject additional power options with Regedit, might need to search online, dependent on hardware and brand)
RESOLUTION,
If using fullscreen or exclusion, try window mode.
Smaller resolution.
lowered and fast ingame quality.
Motion sickness Enable.

Many other possibilities, basically System~wise,
what can we do over the counter.
' Guess '.

Good luck troubleshooting.
Try the game, over ' another ' system perhaps.
Sometimes ' Luck ' does matter.
A potato system, could likely play a better game than a higher end system,
User, Knowledge and Luck behind the system plays a big part in making things work.

* at least you aren't crashing, BSOD or PC restarting compared to recent related posts.

[DrTuSo]

Just a little information from my current personal experience.

Running a 5900x 12c/24t at 4,6GHz allcore boost, watercooled.
2080Ti 3 fans at 85% permanent
32GB RAM
4th Gen Gigabyte Aorus 2TB .M2 SSD 5000MB/4200MB
34" Asus 21:9 3440x1440@100hz

It makes no difference between lowest settings and extreme settings / lower resolution. Always getting the excactly same fps. Clear sign that the cpu / engine is limiting at some point.

At the start of a new game I have up to 160 fps, which starts to drop pretty fast with my raft slowly growing.
In my current game I'm at Balboa Island for the first time, I have 115 foundations, 2 engines, 1 animal, no lights.
FPS averages the whole time now around 40 to 45. It feels very slow and hurts my eyes.

The game is using 8 physical cores and 4 virtual cores.
The overall cpu usage is 25%.
The highest load goes onto one physical core, which often reaches 100%.
4 phyiscal cores hover around 50% to 70%
1 physical core hover around 30% to 40%
2 physical cores hover around 10%
The 4 virtual cores hover around 10% to 15%.

4 physical cores are not used at all.
8 virtual cores are not used at all.

While playing raft, my system reaches the highest temps of all games I play, even Dying Light 2, which is really demanding, doesn't cause so high temperatures.
I'm not running into throttle mode, but still the game runs worse and worse due to some limits with the engine / cpu usage. I guess my main problem is the load on the one phyiscal core that reaches often 100%.


My friends with different system experience the same.
My guess is, really really bad optimization of the game and bad load balancing.

I have the feeling it got worse with 1.0 dropping.

Edit: Also interesting fact: If you play alone, pause the game by opening the menu, the load does NOT drop down.
It's like the game is constantly mining some crypto currency while running.

[Gul Bjorn]

this sounds like a potential data leak issue. or maybe some weird ram+rendering issue?
what i'd do if i had this issue, is update my graphics drivers, and possibly optimize settings.
(sometimes things like anti-aliasing and other things can be performance breaking)
the next thing i'd do is do a clean install or at least a file cash audit.
It's also entirely possible you might have a bad ram stick. I had an issue with a ram chip on a gaming laptop many years ago, and for whatever reason, some games ran pretty well, and others ran horribly. computers are basically black magic.

I've never had any performance issues with this game, but i have experienced performance issues with relatively low teir requirement games before so i totally empathize with your frustration.

I'd post your gpu and driver version here aswell. someone who's more thinksmart about electric magic boxes will be able to help you better. Me big dumb dumb.

[Captain Apples]

Sorry the details I provided were sparse.

VSYNC is on. Playing at 4K with FPS limited to 60. I'm not tracking FPS but it sure seems like I'm getting the full 60.

Lowering settings does not fix the issue; been attempting to play with the highest settings in general.

Using latest NVIDIA drivers 516.59.

I have attempted running on High Performance Power Settings, Power Saver Settings, and the AMD Ryzen High Performance Settings.

I have attempted disabling half of my cores with Task Manager Affinity Settings.

I have attempted entirely removing the ASUS AI software for fan control and have reset my BIOS to use factory defaults on the fans...since manually setting fan speeds did not resolve the issue.

Have tried Exclusive full screen and Borderless...will try windowed (but that'd be a sad solution).

Like DrTuSo, I experience the same fan-bursting issue when the game is paused while in solo mode.

[Captain Apples]

Have also attempted setting CPU max/mins to 99% in Windows Power options; no luck

[Captain Apples]

I seem to have resolved my issue by dramatically (and I mean DRAMATICALLY) increasing my GPU's fan curves.

Thanks for trying to help, folks

[DrTuSo]

Originally posted by Captain Apples:

I seem to have resolved my issue by dramatically (and I mean DRAMATICALLY) increasing my GPU's fan curves.

Thanks for trying to help, folks

That's why I'm running mine at fixed 85%, at that point the noise is still ok,at 90% it's like a starting airplane ;)