- Apr 9, 2017
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Hi all
I hope you can help me some-what as I literally have no idea and need some expert insight if you can please?
I've been running a game called Planet Coaster through Steam. The Cooling fans I have are on constant pretty much all of the time as the game is a CPU intensive game (running between 67% - 100% depending on what the game is doing). But, I've noticed that since an update to the game the other week, if I Alt + Tab out and load Chrome, all of my cooling fans seem to stop. Then, when I jump back into the game the coolers do not kick in again. This leads to an eventual CPU over-heat and only a hard restart (into BIOS POST due to CPU over temp usually) will restart the coolers and bring the CPU to temp again. This only happens when playing PlanCo, is replicatable on demand and cannot be replicated using any other game.
So, I was wondering - is it possible that there's something in the games architecture that is causing this issue or is it likely to be a local issue to my machine that I should be more worried about? I'm no expert in how games manage hardware etc..
My set up is:
i7 7700K, running at 4.2Ghz, not overclocked and will idle around [strike]67 degrees C[/strike] ** OOPS: MADE A MISTAKE: It's idling around 31 - 37 Degrees C *** and when playing PlanCo will settle about 74 degrees C (which is apparently normal for the 7700K) - this rises to 86 when the issue is present and I dare not take it higher than that in tests.
MOBO is the Asus Z170 Gaming running the latest BIOS, which has been the case since March, so that's not a change that could cause this issue
RAM is 32GB running at 2133Mhz (capable of 3400)
Graphics: Asus NVidia 1070 Turbo
Cooler is CoolMaster (water cooled, but unsure of the other details though) - No errors have been detected and it's working properly throughout other applications
I'm sure there will be many questions off the back of this that I've not included.. but thanks in advance!
I hope you can help me some-what as I literally have no idea and need some expert insight if you can please?
I've been running a game called Planet Coaster through Steam. The Cooling fans I have are on constant pretty much all of the time as the game is a CPU intensive game (running between 67% - 100% depending on what the game is doing). But, I've noticed that since an update to the game the other week, if I Alt + Tab out and load Chrome, all of my cooling fans seem to stop. Then, when I jump back into the game the coolers do not kick in again. This leads to an eventual CPU over-heat and only a hard restart (into BIOS POST due to CPU over temp usually) will restart the coolers and bring the CPU to temp again. This only happens when playing PlanCo, is replicatable on demand and cannot be replicated using any other game.
So, I was wondering - is it possible that there's something in the games architecture that is causing this issue or is it likely to be a local issue to my machine that I should be more worried about? I'm no expert in how games manage hardware etc..
My set up is:
i7 7700K, running at 4.2Ghz, not overclocked and will idle around [strike]67 degrees C[/strike] ** OOPS: MADE A MISTAKE: It's idling around 31 - 37 Degrees C *** and when playing PlanCo will settle about 74 degrees C (which is apparently normal for the 7700K) - this rises to 86 when the issue is present and I dare not take it higher than that in tests.
MOBO is the Asus Z170 Gaming running the latest BIOS, which has been the case since March, so that's not a change that could cause this issue
RAM is 32GB running at 2133Mhz (capable of 3400)
Graphics: Asus NVidia 1070 Turbo
Cooler is CoolMaster (water cooled, but unsure of the other details though) - No errors have been detected and it's working properly throughout other applications
I'm sure there will be many questions off the back of this that I've not included.. but thanks in advance!
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