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I don't have the absolute best and latest when it comes to PC gaming, and I haven't even been gaming on PC for that long of a time, but I've noticed something strange between all the games I play and I'm curious if this is normal

It's an AMD 5700 xt, and the price to performance ratio was too good to pass up, it's a good card, not in the top 1% but it suits my needs, but earlier, I was playing the Spyro Reignited trilogy, and all of a sudden the screen froze, and my PC did an immediate shutdown, which is weird because the only crashes I've ever had was while playing Rust, and let's face it, with that game, there's a new list of bugs with every update, the previous "bug" caused a freeze, a buzzing noise, then a shutoff, in that order.

It got me thinking my why Spyro could crash, so I started looking into reasons, there was literally nothing in Event Viewer, not a single error or even a warning.

But Rust, and Spyro Reignited, both stay between 65C, never over, never under, which is weird because one is definitely more demanding than the other, but then I tested this by opening Runescape, putting the settings at the absolute lowest I could achieve, and even that pushed my GPU to between 60C and 65C, same with Far Cry 3, 4, and 5, Fallout 4, Skyrim, all on highest, and lowest settings, GPU temps stayed between those two exact spots, then I ran the Unigine Heaven benchmark, on Ultra, still stayed between those two temps, so my question is, is it common for a GPU to reach temps like that regardless of the demand of the game you're playing? You would figure that less demanding games would generate less heat, because the GPU wouldn't be working as hard to put out the quality you're playing at.

I know FPS skyrockets when you turn the settings way down, which caused some screen tearing, freesync fixed that, but even then, the temps stayed the exact same.

It may be common, but I'm not sure, so that's why I'm asking anyone who reads this lol
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Spyro the reginited trilogy has a lot of crashing, there is plenty of people annoyed with the same issue. Try turning off vsync (If you have it enabled) and set the frame cap to 60fps, this should fix your issue.
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Exactly what TTG said.

I needed to turn off V-Sync and cap my FPS at 60. Still get the occasional crash but nothing compared to previous!
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TTG wrote Spyro the reginited trilogy has a lot of crashing, there is plenty of people annoyed with the same issue. Try turning off vsync (If you have it enabled) and set the frame cap to 60fps, this should fix your issue.


I figured out partially what was wrong, idk if the reignited trilogy was geared more towards AMD or not, but this was my first and only crash, didn't happen before or since, but for some reason individual games wouldn't let me cap the FPS, because Adrenaline would override it somehow, so after I set Adrenaline itself to cap my GPU at 75, which seems to be a sweet spot for me even though I have a 144Hz panel, my temps are now 45C with graphics set on high instead of Ultra, which literally provided no visible difference to me, and now that it's not trying to spit out ridiculous FPS with each of these games, my temperatures do indeed scale with game demand, and I know ambient temps do play a part like how hot/cold you room is, but it also helps that I have a portable AC literally next to me blowing cold air at me plus slightly in the directly of my intake fans, so it helps lol, I know GPU's can reach in the 90's before critical failures really become an issue, but if I can keep the temps moderate and get a longer life I don't mine sacrificing quality down to high or even medium now that it'll actually make a temp difference lol
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From what I gather your 5700 XT is running fine, aside from the random crash on Spyro. Shit happens I've been a PC gamer for years and believe me when I say sometimes things hit the fan for no rhyme or reason and will go back to normal with a reboot.

When it comes to PC temps you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how gaming strains your components, GPU or otherwise. What makes a game 'demanding' comes down to a few things. How much you can render on screen at what resolution and at what FPS is up to the power of your CPU and GPU (and in some cases RAM) but temperature is independent of that (unless you're thermal throttling which you are not). Ideally you want your GPU to be running at 100% usage at all times. How hot your GPU gets running at max, in your case 65c -- should be a relative constant that will only vary due to ambient temp or outside factors (like screwing with your fan settings or overclocking).


Graphic settings, FPS or the bust size of your waifu are variables that will rarely affect GPU temperature so you don't have to worry about that. The only time they will affect temps is if your GPU isn't running at 100% either because you're being bottlenecked by your CPU or you're playing a shitly optimized game or something.

Now why do graphic settings / playing more demanding games not matter? Like I said earlier, the goal is to have your GPU outputting all it can regardless of the amount of things happening on screen. Max settings at 60 fps or low settings at 120 fps is still putting the same amount of strain on your GPU, which is running at full load regardless of how pretty your screen looks. A way to get around this would be to cap your FPS, in which case pushing 60 fps on low would be far less strain on your GPU meaning it wont run at max load meaning lower temps. However your current situation does not necessitate this as 60-65c is a healthy temp range with more than enough room to overclock.


tl;dr u good
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M9z wrote I don't have the absolute best and latest when it comes to PC gaming, and I haven't even been gaming on PC for that long of a time, but I've noticed something strange between all the games I play and I'm curious if this is normal

It's an AMD 5700 xt, and the price to performance ratio was too good to pass up, it's a good card, not in the top 1% but it suits my needs, but earlier, I was playing the Spyro Reignited trilogy, and all of a sudden the screen froze, and my PC did an immediate shutdown, which is weird because the only crashes I've ever had was while playing Rust, and let's face it, with that game, there's a new list of bugs with every update, the previous "bug" caused a freeze, a buzzing noise, then a shutoff, in that order.

It got me thinking my why Spyro could crash, so I started looking into reasons, there was literally nothing in Event Viewer, not a single error or even a warning.

But Rust, and Spyro Reignited, both stay between 65C, never over, never under, which is weird because one is definitely more demanding than the other, but then I tested this by opening Runescape, putting the settings at the absolute lowest I could achieve, and even that pushed my GPU to between 60C and 65C, same with Far Cry 3, 4, and 5, Fallout 4, Skyrim, all on highest, and lowest settings, GPU temps stayed between those two exact spots, then I ran the Unigine Heaven benchmark, on Ultra, still stayed between those two temps, so my question is, is it common for a GPU to reach temps like that regardless of the demand of the game you're playing? You would figure that less demanding games would generate less heat, because the GPU wouldn't be working as hard to put out the quality you're playing at.

I know FPS skyrockets when you turn the settings way down, which caused some screen tearing, freesync fixed that, but even then, the temps stayed the exact same.

It may be common, but I'm not sure, so that's why I'm asking anyone who reads this lol


dude id swap that GPU asap youd be tearing your hair out the amount of problems i see with people having with the 5700xt is disgusting ditch it and go for something else prehaps a 2060 super etc
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M9z wrote I don't have the absolute best and latest when it comes to PC gaming, and I haven't even been gaming on PC for that long of a time, but I've noticed something strange between all the games I play and I'm curious if this is normal

It's an AMD 5700 xt, and the price to performance ratio was too good to pass up, it's a good card, not in the top 1% but it suits my needs, but earlier, I was playing the Spyro Reignited trilogy, and all of a sudden the screen froze, and my PC did an immediate shutdown, which is weird because the only crashes I've ever had was while playing Rust, and let's face it, with that game, there's a new list of bugs with every update, the previous "bug" caused a freeze, a buzzing noise, then a shutoff, in that order.

It got me thinking my why Spyro could crash, so I started looking into reasons, there was literally nothing in Event Viewer, not a single error or even a warning.

But Rust, and Spyro Reignited, both stay between 65C, never over, never under, which is weird because one is definitely more demanding than the other, but then I tested this by opening Runescape, putting the settings at the absolute lowest I could achieve, and even that pushed my GPU to between 60C and 65C, same with Far Cry 3, 4, and 5, Fallout 4, Skyrim, all on highest, and lowest settings, GPU temps stayed between those two exact spots, then I ran the Unigine Heaven benchmark, on Ultra, still stayed between those two temps, so my question is, is it common for a GPU to reach temps like that regardless of the demand of the game you're playing? You would figure that less demanding games would generate less heat, because the GPU wouldn't be working as hard to put out the quality you're playing at.

I know FPS skyrockets when you turn the settings way down, which caused some screen tearing, freesync fixed that, but even then, the temps stayed the exact same.

It may be common, but I'm not sure, so that's why I'm asking anyone who reads this lol


dude id swap that GPU asap youd be tearing your hair out the amount of problems i see with people having with the 5700xt is disgusting ditch it and go for something else prehaps a 2060 super etc


Ironically, I had a 2060 Super, and it was causing issues with textures, and it was jumping up into 80C for no reason, which made me go for the 5700xt lol, and now that I've also fixed this issue, things are going pretty good with it lol
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