graph card overheat

[chocolaterat]

So recently the game crashed in the middle of my play and I realized that once I started the game without actually going into my world my RX6800XT reaches 86C. I think the crash is due to overheat but has anyone else experience this before as well????

[ShaftAlmighty]

I got a 960 gtx and have never had any issue with the game.

[GinsengSamurai]

My max GPU temp had been 76c. At the moment, taking off the front and top meshes of my tower, brought it down to 73c.

Mind you, I set shadows to low, turned off SSAO, set level of detail/distance thingy to medium, and that definitely helped average my GPU temp lower than that max.

[Mharr]

Download Afterburner or similar, set the card's target temperature to 80, see if it tanks performance. No game should be able to force thermal shutdown if the cooling systems are working, but un-optimised ones like these make for good coal mine canaries.

[Chronicle]

gotta up that fan curve i guess, shouldn't get that hot though, i would look up your brand and model and see if others are having the same issue.

[Disaster Theory]

Originally posted by chocolaterat:

So recently the game crashed in the middle of my play and I realized that once I started the game without actually going into my world my RX6800XT reaches 86C. I think the crash is due to overheat but has anyone else experience this before as well????

VSync on? If not turn it on. It may help reduce temps.

[Meow]

You could try cleaning your pc for dust, and then perhaps clean and apply new thermal paste to the GPU chip.

[chocolaterat]

Originally posted by Meow:

You could try cleaning your pc for dust, and then perhaps clean and apply new thermal paste to the GPU chip.

It is pretty clean, with other games the card doesn't even go over 60. Except this one

[chocolaterat]

Originally posted by GinsengSamurai:

My max GPU temp had been 76c. At the moment, taking off the front and top meshes of my tower, brought it down to 73c.

Mind you, I set shadows to low, turned off SSAO, set level of detail/distance thingy to medium, and that definitely helped average my GPU temp lower than that max.

worth trying. I'll see how it goes

[chocolaterat]

Originally posted by Mharr:

Download Afterburner or similar, set the card's target temperature to 80, see if it tanks performance. No game should be able to force thermal shutdown if the cooling systems are working, but un-optimised ones like these make for good coal mine canaries.

I think this is just game optimizing issue then?

[chocolaterat]

Originally posted by Chronicle:

gotta up that fan curve i guess, shouldn't get that hot though, i would look up your brand and model and see if others are having the same issue.

I haven't found something recently with RX6800XT that's why I'm asking here. So strange that it goes this hot. I had the most recent driver...

[chocolaterat]

Originally posted by Disaster Theory:

Originally posted by chocolaterat:

So recently the game crashed in the middle of my play and I realized that once I started the game without actually going into my world my RX6800XT reaches 86C. I think the crash is due to overheat but has anyone else experience this before as well????

VSync on? If not turn it on. It may help reduce temps.

Nah, I didn't turn vsyn for this game. I mean the pixel style of the game really doesn't require Vsyn.

[Mharr]

Originally posted by chocolaterat:

I think this is just game optimizing issue then?

Largely, but again lack of optimization should not, on its own, be able to force a thermal crash. Something is wrong, just not so wrong that it shows up during normal operation.

Yet.

[A-mak]

That's not a high temp mate and would not cause the game to crash.

When your gpu hits around 95c (they are rated for 110-120c) it will most likely underclock itself by half (that's what mine did). The game wont crash, you will simply get worse FPS. If you have never applied thermal paste to a CPU I would not suggest touching your GPU and also taking your heatsink off to do such a thing will most likely void your warranty.

Can you download HWINFO and post your specs? more likely you don't have a good enough PSU to power your graphics card which would defo cause instability and it just happens that Valheim is your first game to actually push your gpu enough to want power, I think.

If I were you, I'd download the latest drivers from AMD and tinker with things in Radeon software. You can also download custom graphics mod to fine-tune your graphics and I highly recommend switching to wallyHD's texture pack (I get better fps with this pack lol). Maybe even run Furmark or/and Unigine stress test on the GPU.

Quote from google:
"Theoretically the max hot spot temp for the 6800 XT is 110°C (above that it is supposed to throttle), so anything below is "within spec". 100-104°C would be considered normal by AMD."

[Prismatic Platypus]

Make sure fps is capped.

[Mharr]

Originally posted by chocolaterat:

Nah, I didn't turn vsyn for this game. I mean the pixel style of the game really doesn't require Vsyn.

Yeah, that's bad intuition I think. Lower polys and texture resolutions do have *some* performance impact but with everything else in the engine using modern techniques you shouldn't assume it'll run like a pre-2010 game. (I mean look at RTX Minecraft!) A-mak probably has it, this is the first game that's tried to draw too many amps on your card.