Dragon Age 2 heating up my GPU?

bruniss

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Hi ppl!

I decided to play DA2 again and for some reason it's making my gpu go nuts. It plays smoothly as always, but it runs like if it were a much heavier game. My gpu is heating up a lot and only with this game. Does this always happen?
 


I don't even know if I'd call it bad optimization. I don't know if you are aware, but many times it is the easy game that make the GPU get the hottest. Take Starcraft II for example. When it was released, in the menus, GPU's were overheating and dying until they put a FPS cap in the game. High FPS often heats up a GPU more than high utilization and low FPS.
 


Just because DA2 isn't as good as Origins, doesn't make it a bad game. There are several things it even does better than DA: origins. They just cut a few corners they shouldn't have, but it is still better than most RPG's.
 

bruniss

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Absolutly agree. DAO was a better RPG, but DA2 is still fun and the story is satisfying towards the end.
Btw, I removed the diffusion of the depth of field and now it heats a little less :)