Steam makes my fan go crazy?

[Rizzo]

The front Fan in my Desktop fluctuates when Steam is open. It sounds like a revving engine every 2-3 seconds. When I close Steam it stops. When I do anything else, it doesnt do it. Only when Steam is open and it started doing this randomly the day before yesterday. Any suggestions?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Then either set the fan to "DC" in the BIOS, or hook it up to the Power Supply.

[HiFiW]

Mine started doing this too a few days ago. Must be some new update that messed with something. My fan boosts then fades 3 second intervals just like yours. This is all on a perfectly clean win10 install and steam install. Maybe they will update it/fix it. I've never had this problem before.

[tacoshy]

well it only happens so far as I read the hundreds of other comments on steam because of a steam update. It has nothing to do with Nvidia or the GPU at all but a conflict on Open-GL espacially with Dell/Alienware.

If you look into the forum (espacially help and tipps) you have plenty comments how to solve the issue by updating a patch.

[John Rambo]

I am also having this issue.

[Rizzo]

Come to find out, The lights on the sides of my computer were blinking in sync with the fan. I needed to reinstall Alienware Command Center. I don't know why Steam was the only program to trigger this electronic malfunction but everything works now.