Force alt-tab on GPU temperature

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publius10

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I have a GTX570 that I strongly suspect of being toast, and I'll replace it as soon as the Pascal cards come out.

Meanwhile the problem I have is that the GPU overheats very quickly when playing most games (even old ones like Borderlands 2, that I could previously play with no issue). Once it reaches 102C, the GPU shuts off and I'm forced to restart the computer. Now I have a monitoring utility that shows the temp. in a corner of the screen, so if it gets to say 100C I can alt-tab, or pause the game, and wait for it to drop back to like 60. However sometimes I get too engrossed in what I'm doing, or there's a cutscene or something, and I forget and it crashes. So I'm wondering, is there a way to automate it so that it forces the program to alt-tab when the GPU reaches a certain temp? I'm using MSI Afterburner for monitoring.
 
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You may be able to lower the voltage with Afterburner(it can also frame rate limit if you want to try something lower than your monitor sync rate).
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Dude you need to fix your cooling solution. That is just a band aid fix and a bad one at that.

Try turning Vsync on to limit the FPS, your GPU will run much cooler when capped at 60fps. Not a great solution but much better than regularly spiking 100*C.

Thats like driving a car everyday that overheats.. and you just pull off the side of the road to let it cool down and then act like nothing is wrong.


edit: to answer your question, I do not think there is a way to do that. It wouldnt be hard for someone to write a program to do what you need.. but again, its not even a good fix and would be a waste of time.
 
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No my cooling is fine, the GPU fan works fine, I've replaced the thermal paste, everything else is pretty cold, just the GPU is somehow broken. I know this is a bandaid solution, that's exactly what I'm looking for - just need something to survive a few months until Pascal.
 
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You are kidding me? You think it running hot means it is broken? Its probably hot because you have awful case airflow while running the gpu at 100%.

Try with Vsync on. Try with your case panel off. GPUs do not just run hot all of a sudden.

The GPU cooler is no good if it is being fed hot air or no air at all.
 
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I would downclock and undervolt the crap out of it and see if it runs any cooler.

I've had a leakage short to ground through a CPU and it still worked at ludicrous temperatures, tended to melt power supplies though. Eventually melted the motherboard, a few new ATX wires and it was running for another month before I finally managed to replace it. Still have that Athlon T-Bird sitting in a drawer.
 
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If you have software that can run an executable on a certain temperature, you can call another program that should steal focus from the game.

Is your fan already maxed out? I know you said you changed the thermal paste, but that should have at least helped somewhat.

As sad above frame rate caps can stop or at least reduce the speed at witch the gpu temperature climbs.

You can use something like Nvidia Inspector to set any frame cap you want for each game.
 
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Trust me, my case flow is fine. Even at 100C when I touch the case it's colder than the room. Also this started happening out of the blue last Nov. without me changing the hardware in any way, and worked perfectly with this exact case for many years before. I've tried vsync, doesn't help. It could be a software issue, but I've already tried everything I could think of - up to and including disconnecting the harddrives completely and running a linux distro off a flash drive.
 
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i consider lowering the voltage as a last resort.

first things first:
you might want to make sure that the thermal compound you used is of good quality. I once used TC that didnt transfer the heat very well or was conductive and the gpu got temps around 90C. I bought some arctic silver afterwards and the temps went down to a stable 50 -55C during benchmark. also make sure the heatsink is clean.

alt tabbing makes your gpu ramp up with a bunch of games so i wouldnt do that when your gpu is already toasty.

possible solution: the program borderless gaming helps. this program will give you not only stable fps but also a 15fps increase maybe more by disabling the fullscreen option in game first before using the program.

secondary it will turn alt tabbing into a no brainer.

 
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