Alert!: For people trying to run nVidia 196.75 drivers!
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DarkGob,
Posted on: 2010-03-05 08:45 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
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A short-term fix is to use the "/maxfps #" command, with # set to something that will not over-tax your card. For instance, there is absolutely no reason to have maxfps set higher than the refresh rate of your monitor (usually 60 if you've got a LCD). There was an issue recently with CO and STO where if you didn't set a max fps, in some situations with higher-end cards it would go into a death cycle of computing far faster than the screen could even update, overheating the card badly; this problem seems to have similar roots combined with some fan control issues. |
Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Apparently something in the 196.75 version of nVidia's drivers is causing temperature controls on nVidia cards to fail, exposing the cards to a danger of overheating.
Slashdot Article Parent Article nVidia Forum Thread #1 nVidia Forum Thread #2 If you're running this revision of drivers, it's recommended that you uninstall and roll back to the previous version of the drivers. |
maxfps is most effective if it's an integer divisor of your refresh rate; for a typical 60 Hz refresh LCD, the useful settings are 60, 30, 20, 15, 12, 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1. Unless you have a high-end rig, the visual differences setting maxfps to 30 are quite small, yet can have considerable cooling benefits.
(As a side note, there is also /maxinactivefps #, which controls the rendering rate if CoH is in the background; if you think you might need to let your card cool off, you can set that to a very low number (like 3 or even 1) and minimize CoH. This is also useful to reduce the load from the other client(s) while running more than one account.)
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Also, if your in another game where you can't set a max frame rate easier, just enable Vertical Sync in your graphics drivers, on most monitors it'll set the maximum to 60 or 85, some will go higher of course.
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If you're running at high resolution with high quality settings, this isn't going to help you much. The card is being taxed by other things than just trying to kick out triple-digit framerates.
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Originally Posted by Miuramir
A short-term fix is to use the "/maxfps #"
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Is this isolated to 196.75? I'm running 196.21 and getting temps around 80 degrees C while idle. I was having this issue before my power supply burned out on Sunday, and I'm still having the problem with the new (and theoretically superior) power supply.
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it seems nVidia has rolled back to 196.21 as being the latest drivers
http://www.scene-and-heard.com/cov/covsig.jpg
What are good "normal" temperatures ? I seem to run at 40 C for my graphics card and like 50 C for my processors.
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Anyone else having problems with 196.21? Looks like it came out mid-January, and I started having problems very shortly after returning to the game in early February.
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Originally Posted by Lohenien
What are good "normal" temperatures ? I seem to run at 40 C for my graphics card and like 50 C for my processors.
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IIRC the hottest an Athlon 64x2 should run was 90c - and that was full load for a while. 40-50c, I wouldn't worry.
This is why I kinda like being in control of my temps.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXr6IIj1sLY - RivaTuner auto-fan control tutorial
While you could technically revert to an older driver, you can keep the driver and at the same time with this prog your GPU wont die.
I don't trust default fan speeds even when the driver's aren't faulty
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been running 196.21 here since release with no issues at all, but then I have an ASUS ENGTX260 Matrix, which has dual fans and uses iTracker2 to control the fan speeds
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Anyone else having problems with 196.21? Looks like it came out mid-January, and I started having problems very shortly after returning to the game in early February.
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http://www.scene-and-heard.com/cov/covsig.jpg
Apparently something in the 196.75 version of nVidia's drivers is causing temperature controls on nVidia cards to fail, exposing the cards to a danger of overheating.
Slashdot Article
Parent Article
nVidia Forum Thread #1
nVidia Forum Thread #2
If you're running this revision of drivers, it's recommended that you uninstall and roll back to the previous version of the drivers.
Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.