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[Solved] Why does my GPU go to 90C in Resident Evil 5

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My Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 gets up to and over 95 Degrees C when im playing Resident Evil 5 with everything on High including AA and Anistropic.

My Fan speed is at 70%

Outside of games my GPU is at 55 Degrees C.

In Any other game it only goes up to 70 Degrees C.

Please Help.

My Case does have cooling in it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811208021

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Nforce 650i
4gb ram corsair
core 2 duo e4500
windows vista x64 home premium

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try to run it @ dx9 mode and check if you'd still get the same temps.

set your fan to 100%

maybe this is not related but what version of driver you're currently using?

Reply to renz496

dunno why i can't edit. forgot to tell you to re-check your case airflow

Reply to renz496

Your case sucks for airflow

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Reply to PsychoSaysDie

im using 190.62

ya i guess my case sucks for airflow lol

Reply to Philballer17

but is it safe to set it at 100% speed fan

Reply to Philballer17

i think its ok to max out the fan but it can be noisy.
try 190.38 driver. i'm currently playing RE5, with 190.62 i see drop numbers in frame rate. maybe RE5 is bad with that driver (just my opinion though) :pt1cable:

just don't forget to use driver sweeper program after uninstalling the driver

Message edited by renz496 on 09-27-2009 at 11:23:39 AM

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since its only r evil 5 ......
you could try to take off all the fancy settings in the game run it at a low res, then if it runs cool start to upgrade the settings till you find what is causing the over heating
its more likly to be a driver issue with the game

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Reply to sirkillalot

Either set the fan to 100% for the game, or turn some of the settings down, AA and shadows can be hard on the card.
As for airflow, that case has plenty of it, and in the right direction. Of course you have the front fan connected and blowing in, right?

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Reply to coozie7

Thermal threshold for the GT200 chip is 105c. Basically your fine even if you are running at 95c.

Chip will start throttling down at 105c.

Reply to lafontma

thx, ill run it at 100%.

Reply to Philballer17

coozie7 wrote :

what he said

hey old man u get around :na:

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Reply to sirkillalot

ya front fan is connected, but i guess turning settings down would help, but with settings up im still getting 40-60 fps so iono

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Philballer17 wrote :

ya front fan is connected, but i guess turning settings down would help, but with settings up im still getting 40-60 fps so iono

40-60 fps is ok for RE5. i think the driver itself has a bit of conflict with the game. i'm using 9600GSO and with high setting (no AA) i'm still able to get 40FPS average.

Reply to renz496

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try to run it @ dx9 mode and check if you'd still get the same temps.

Reply to wh3resmycar

Nope tempurature idles around 55-58 degrees C in Direct X 9 Lol. hmm

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Philballer17 wrote :

Nope tempurature idles around 55-58 degrees C in Direct X 9 Lol. hmm

is that in game temperature using dx9?

Reply to renz496

Use v-sync or fps limit 60fps this will reduce you temperature.

My temperature with this game is 85C(1920x1200,8xAA,maexd out, 108fps v-sync off)and 78C(1920x1200,8xAA,maexd out, 60fps v-sync on).

Reply to michaelmk86

ya thats ingame temperature.

and sure i guess ill use vsync

Reply to Philballer17

Haha, it might just be the game. I remember when a leaked Stalker Clear Sky demo from E3 was being distributed around the web (and I picked it up and checked it out) well, my 9800GX2 got up to 98C playing that demo with 100% fan speed! Even though it didn't crash or artifact or anything.

So when the game actually came out my card ran much, much cooler while playing it. All I am saying is that some software my be coded to obliterate the gpu to get the very best performance possible, but when it is fine tuned that is watered down some.

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