Fan speed sticks at max after closing game

[absolutepressure]

General info: Toshiba Satellite, i5, Nvidia 550M, one fan (because laptop)

I run some intensive software (i.e. solid modelling) and the fan speed goes up and down, and after closing those programs, goes to idle when the cpu is.

However, only after playing games through steam (only way I play them) will the fan stick at max speed. Only way to fix it is to put it into sleep mode and wake it again. After that, fan is normal.

It seems to be something about steam since all games do this. Any ideas? Is there some stupid setting I'm overlooking?

Thanks!

[_I_]

the fan speed is controlled by bios
when hot it will run the fan at max til it cools down

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Correct, it is not mostly liking going to lower the RPM until the temp goes back down.
On most laptops and GPUs a major threshold (fan curve) temp is 65*C or so, so when CPU/GPU reaches this in laptops, fan generally will crank up. Most games might push the laptop to run upwards of 80*C or higher in some cases. So yea when u do close a game, the temp will basically have to go back down to below 70*C or so before the fan will lower the RPMs again.

If u'd like to see your CPU/GPU temps and track them, I would suggest apps such as CoreTemp (for CPU), MSI Afterburner (for GPU as well as other useful features) and for something to view basically all the info, including voltages, fan speeds, temps; I suggest something like HWMonitor.

[absolutepressure]

I'll take a look at those programs. It will be interesting to see if a false temp shows up. Fan will run at max for about an hour before I've put it in sleep. Air coming out is cool, keyboard etc is cool.