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WOW is a graphics card killer in the character selection and new character screens

Geekazoid

Geekazoid

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was in the create new character screen making a new character when POW my 295 gtx fan speed went to 100% scared the life of out me quickly quit out of wow and saw the temp to be 93oc.... why does it cause the graphics card to HEAT up so much when ingame the card is fine never top 75oc???

its a BLOODY card killer
 
No idea, as I haven't played wow. But in other RPG games on character selection the character model is blown up, this normally strains the GPU more. Well that was was my experience in Oblivion anyway :)
 
but this is a complete card killer... i say if i kept that screen on it will probably heat the card to distruction... it must be a codeing problem with world of warcraft... i just wanna know if its only happening to me
 
it might be, could be drivers also, I persome they control the fan? on Nvidia cards I have not had a nvdia card in a longgg time
 
I played it on an x1950pro with no problems.

obviously i got past char selection screen too.
 
i got past the character selection screen and can play the game maxed out the thing is that if u keep wow for too long on the character selection screen it overheats the GPU enormously... two black lines try this keep wow on the character selection screen for like 10 min and then check ur GPU temperature....
 
it over heats the GPU sooo much that i cant create a new character, choose his features names etc without the GPU overheating to almost breaking point is Deffo a coding problem within WoW... i have the best drivers and everything is uptodate (186.18)
 
Check the fps.

The only thing I could think of is that this scene uses very little CPU power hence the GPU is probably rendering it at some huge FPS, which will obviously stress the card.
 
It's just the card telling you not to run old and graphically very dated games on it and to actually make use of the 295's power.
 
I have a 295 GTX and play WoW regularly.

I've never noticed this problem.

Interestingly, I installed the latest drivers the other night and my fps went from a sync'd 60fps to 17 fps. I also got my first series of BSoDs with the DRIVER IRQ NOT EQUAL message. Turns out that this was because I had not removed the previous set of drivers before installing the new one. Why don't manufacturers make it so that the old driver is automatically removed before the installation?

I uninstalled the new one and am running on something around version 182 now and getting the most smooth gameplay yet!

- Matt.
 
Matt P said:
I have a 295 GTX and play WoW regularly.

I've never noticed this problem.

Interestingly, I installed the latest drivers the other night and my fps went from a sync'd 60fps to 17 fps. I also got my first series of BSoDs with the DRIVER IRQ NOT EQUAL message. Turns out that this was because I had not removed the previous set of drivers before installing the new one. Why don't manufacturers make it so that the old driver is automatically removed before the installation?

I uninstalled the new one and am running on something around version 182 now and getting the most smooth gameplay yet!

- Matt.
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Even more interestingly and probably a coincidence, I updated the latest drivers for my 8800gt, after a reboot I fired up WoW, logged in and left the machine and went for some dinner, came back and the card was knackered, looks like it overheated and killed some memory, just blue squiggly lines in Windows and random garbage characters on boot.

Leadtek have accepted the RMA without any real proof of purchase (which from reading various horror stories is almost unheard of) so I'm wondering if there's some kind of known problem.
 
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