the character select screen does indeed heat up much more than the rest, using catalyst OD + performance monitor you can see as titanium suggested that gpu load is pegged at 100% and cpu load is very low. however, any well designed cooling system/card should have been designed to cope with a full 100% theoretical load (eg every transistor switching at full speed). recent issues on this line are the "furmark" bug in some ati cards where the power regulation was designed for a typical load, rather than the worst case and since furmark was much more like worst case the cards would go to their safety shutdown. it seems that in your case your graphics card cooler is not designed to cope with this worst case, or your computer case cant cope with the thermal load. check for dust bunnies!
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WOW is a graphics card killer in the character selection and new character screens
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dow 2 army painter/menus cause this as well, and i can see this in other games as well. I noticed it bcause i could hear my 295s clicking etc when on menus and was like...wtf why is that as much load as in fallout 3 looking across the whole wasteland.
Wouldn't know too much about in wow since i think it sucks but meh.
Use your driver game profiles/settings, force v sync in older games so you dont have it doing a bajillion fps/sec (i get like over 1.4k on some screens in dow2). Its fine for me though since its all under water, and i didnt notice any issues when i was running one 295 under air though
Wouldn't know too much about in wow since i think it sucks but meh.
Use your driver game profiles/settings, force v sync in older games so you dont have it doing a bajillion fps/sec (i get like over 1.4k on some screens in dow2). Its fine for me though since its all under water, and i didnt notice any issues when i was running one 295 under air though
Ive just tried to see if my system responds in the same way and it doesnt. On the char select and char creation screens the gfx card barely heats up at all.... maybe 4 or 5 degrees over idle.
After a few hours in the game the card is maybe 20degrees over idle.
Either its something in your configuration or a driver issue i would say, as if the game was coded to use 100% gfx power it would be doing on mine, and it isnt.
After a few hours in the game the card is maybe 20degrees over idle.
Either its something in your configuration or a driver issue i would say, as if the game was coded to use 100% gfx power it would be doing on mine, and it isnt.
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Hasn't happened with my GTX 275 when I created a new character...
my Gainward 295 gtx came with a utility called express tools which allows me to control the fan speed of the card manualy on heavy gaming crysis etc i have the fan on 60%...
im running a Antec 902 case dust filters... there is no dust in the case and i have checked this visually.
as for the card not being able to cope with full graphic load i have played crysis and crysis warhead FULLY maxed out settings for several hours and the graphic card does not top 78 79oc.... so im completely confused to why ONLY in the characted menu selection screen of WoW the graphic card start to cook???
did u have vsync on or off??? keep on a character selection screen for like 10 mins... i test mine with Vsync on..
i first noticed the problem when i left my wow character in an inn afk and the game auto logged me out after some time i got back to the pc about 10-15mins or so and was on the character selection screen and the graphic card fan was on FULL 100% like a hairdryer and GPU temp was 90oc and above...
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No, it's a hardware / driver problem, if it's a problem at all.
get something like fraps and check to see if it actually is running at 60fps, since vsync has a habit of not always working, half the time you have to set it in game, in the driver and sometimes use d3doverride (get it out of rivatuner) to force it one, as its stupid :/
I always run rivatuner using the fan controll at manual at 70%, its a gtx280 there is an option in rivatuner to show min,max, etc mine after playing arma2 was 48c max, the other gtx280 I have yet to plug in awaiting my new case .
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crysis maxed out is probably still not maxing out your card tho, either a cpu limit keeps the cards below 100% or it maxes out one part of the cards render path, pixel shaders say, leaving the texturing units, ram interface and T+L engine lightly loaded. meanwhile the wow login screen through luck maxes out all the elements of the gpu while hardly touching the cpu.
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Because wow has horrible support for newer cards imo.
My gtx275 single 4870 and a 4870x2 have all played it crap.
My 275 plays it perfectly? must be the drivers you used or something.
Works great with GTX280 I tried it with a 4870x2 once and it slowed down a lot more in busy raids not sure why I think because Crossfire support is poor.
Even with the GTX280 there are still places where it seems CPU limited though (busy areas such as Dalaran/Wintergrasp).