Neverwinter makes my fans go nuts...

[Herodotus]

Why is this? I have been playing games which are far graphically superior to this game and even on par with it (such as Gothic 1 and 2, Morrowind, Half-Life and Mount and Blade: Warband. Heck, I've even been playing the viking conquest mod with less issues, but this game? after a few minutes of gameplay, my pc has become a glorified lap warmer, which it never does. Any ideas why? or what I can do to help?

[Paradox101]

Neverwinter nowadays even works in a toaster (cell phone).
And about graphics, for me "graphics" does not define a game.

Maybe throw your PC away, clean it with a bucket of water, stop accessing the x vid ....

; ) or go to play the games you mentioned

[DrLoboto]

Might have to do with the Enhanced Edition features. Have you tried turning off some graphical effects in the menu?

[Tesseract]

Is vsync on? Might just be uselessly rendering hundreds of frames per second.

[Herodotus]

hmmm, alright, I'll try doing all those graphical features, thanks btw for the fast reply! I really didn't expect to get advice so fast! XD

I am a little strapped on cash, so replacing my pc (which is not a terrible one) is not an option. thanks again everyone, if ya find out or have anything more to suggest please do, I'll try those graphical settings.

[Jukelo]

That's just your GPU warming up from running at 100% utilization, which is what it's supposed to do if you don't cap the framerate.

[Tyvolus]

Originally posted by Herodotus:

Why is this? I have been playing games which are far graphically superior to this game and even on par with it (such as Gothic 1 and 2, Morrowind, Half-Life and Mount and Blade: Warband. Heck, I've even been playing the viking conquest mod with less issues, but this game? after a few minutes of gameplay, my pc has become a glorified lap warmer, which it never does. Any ideas why? or what I can do to help?

YOUR PC may be dusty. clean it out, then report back.

[Rodia]

anti-aliasing is killing your machine. In NWN it was never working fine.

[Jukelo]

Originally posted by Rodia:

anti-aliasing is killing your machine. In NWN it was never working fine.

No it's not, stop spreading nonsense. Anti-aliasing doesn't kill machines, video games don't kill machines. A video game can push your system to 100% (which is often what you want them to do) causing your system to warm up, and therefore your fans to ramp up. That's perfectly normal. And if you have a cooling problem, your drivers will either shut down the system before it reaches unsafe temperatures, or reduce the performance to reduce temperature.

[Proleric]

I experienced this a few months back on a fairly new PC. It started out of the blue. Extra cleaning didn't help. It stopped after a Windows update, which might have been a coincidence perhaps.

[Bluddy]

It's probably the extra features added for the EE. Look into the video options, then advanced frame buffer effects. Turn them all off. The game will look a little worse, but play super smooth with little effort.

[RotherHans]

Originally posted by Jukelo:

video games don't kill machines. A video game can push your system to 100% (which is often what you want them to do)

This is so wrong, it's not even worth arguing about.

But OPs problem is 100% the n-synch issue.
Many old games are so easy to render for current hardware, they make them actually go into overdrive.
Which very much can create pinpoint heat spots in the complex computers we call "graphic card".
N-synch is now used to safeguard from exactly this problem, though it was initially invented to stop tearing graphical artifacts.

[Herodotus]

hmmm, Imma try cleaning my pc of dust etc (though it doesn't seem to be that bad).
I turned off basically every graphical setting and still does it, tbh, I am getting kind of annoyed since I have other old games and they give me none of these issues.

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[Rodia]

Well, you guys agruing about new and old hardware, but I said just that the antialiasing was coded rly bad in the very first version of NWN and this problem was even comment on Ubuntu forums and Wine forums. If software is not optimize for hardware in which is used, a man shall except the machine willl not working properly. NWN is a kind very old software and despite EE this is stilll kind of completly badly optimatized software. And anti-aliasing is the worst one implementation. Any other every one may find in graphics options, how bad they are depends on your CPU/GPU.

[Ziyinzhuangyang]

i dunno guy but the amount of sexual innuendo in your og post is unsettlling