City of Heroes: Live Forum Archive

Temperatures under the new graphics

kinaki

By kinaki,
Posted on: 2010-08-28 17:15 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

Posted

What in the world is going on with the new graphics? My card, Sapphire Vapor-Cool 5870, which averages between 56 and 60 celsius under load in other games, reaches 66 C while I'm ALT-TABBED ! Under load, I've seen it get to 68 C, this being after I've increased fan speeds in my case.

So, two things, why does the new graphics overhaul tax this card so hard over other games? And why does the engine still go crazy sending rendering commands to my card even when the game is tabbed out?

 

Posted

Welcome to the association of players who wish they knew why this game puts so much stress on the GPU, or AOPWWTKWTGPSMSOTGPU for those who insist on abbreviations.

The only thing I've come up with is it's possibly because the game uses OpenGL which few others do.

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