Which voltage setting should I be checking? The HWMonitor has a LOT of voltage numbers.
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Well, I know that V2 always leaves 2 cores unused by the game to run Windows operations. So those probably aren’t heating up.
As I said before, turn shadows/lighting to off or as low as they can go. Those are the CPU hogs. Msi afterburner should have have the fan speed for you GPU under control so you shouldn’t have to worry too much about that.
It’s your CPU that seems to be overheating. You can try going into the BIOS and cranking up the fan speed. Some motherboards have special fan profiles, like “silent” which tries to keep your fans RPM as low as possible. Others are just worded weirdly, and clicking “disable” actually allows it to go to max speed instead of turning it off…
While in the BIOS you should see your voltage as well. Some have a “turbo” setting which pumps extra voltage to your cpu. People with your CPU have reported that it tends to push it to unsafe temperatures.
To get into the BIOS on your motherboard, restart and click the Delete button when you see the ASUS screen.
But yea, I’d suggest cleaning and making sure the heatsink is seated properly. Not really much else I can help you with. Having the CPU around ~70C won’t hurt it, I think intel chips can get up to 100C before issues. btw, you said your PC shuts down while playing other games as well right? Have you tried running a stress test? Or even throwing on that other game that causes crashes and keeping a look at the temperatures? Good luck
EDIT: You deleted most of your comment, lol.
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Sorry about that. I deleted most of my comment due to strange temp spikes I’m seeing on HWMonitor and I don’t know where they came from. I thought I had something figured out when I realized that when I stopped using NVIDIA GeForce to optimize the game, Vermintide’s settings kept a custom profile that pushed the graphics way beyond what my monitor was capable of. The temperatures when playing appeared to have dropped, but then I’m seeing a 73C spike when I’m not even in the game.
I’m confused. I’ll get this cleaned out in a week and see what happens.
Keep us posted. I’d love to hear what your problem/fix was; best to spread knowledge, you know?
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Okay, so here’s the report.
The computer hasn’t crashed in a week. The problem is probably fixed. I don’t even bother checking the temp anymore.
Here’s what happened: The culprit is NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience. It’s the program with NVIDIA cards that offers to optimize your game’s graphics according to what makes it look best (though it can change that based on your settings).
Even after undoing the “optimize” option in GeForce, for some reason the game retained a custom graphics profile that pushed everything way beyond what my computer was able to handle. I only have a 60hz monitor for crying out loud.
Vermintide is a very pretty game on Extreme, but it was causing some major meltdowns on my end. I changed the graphics preset to “High” and the game auto-adjusted everything downward. My computer was a beast when Vermintide was new, so it should be able to handle this.
And sure enough, it stopped crashing the computer.
I’m still going to be cautious, obviously, but I’m feeling optimistic right now.
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Yeah; custom profiles are a witch. Glad to hear you found the culprit! I’ll note it for the future in case another thread like it pops up.
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Looks like I spoke too soon. BSOD. Uncorrectable hardware error.
Well, back to the drawing board. It was a step in the right direction, at least.
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Like I said before, I’d recommend turning shadows and lighting to off or as low as possible. Leaving them on High preset will still be putting a lot of stress on your CPU. You can also crank up your fan for the CPU in the BIOS.
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this is what i posted on steam forums
its nice that lots of people are trying to help. the level of cool and willing to help others in this community is what sets its above and beyond most others, imo.
but this wasnt a request for help as much as this was a notification that i honestly believe there is a problem between windows and vermintide 1. im thankful people are trying to help but the problem isnt my pc.
you might disagree and that is ok. we can all disagree. but i find ironic that those trying to help are always suggesting its somehow related to the pc of all the people having the problem instead of actually considering that a game that hasnt been updated in forever might have some problems related to updated windows.
tons of people are all having the same problems lately while trying to play the same game.
windows is constantly updating. vermintide is not updated at all.
Occam’s razor – pretty obvious that the problem is most likely not TONS of different computers but instead are related to ONE update that causes problems with the game and is experienced by many people.
id also like to ask the people who dont have problems … how many hours a week are you playing? NOW. not a year ago. NOW.
i play 30 or more. still. this isnt a constant problem, its an intermittent one and its a NEW one. and if someone doesnt play enough RECENTLY enough to experience it that doesnt mean it doesnt exist for them too. it just means they havent put in the time yet to encounter it.
Well, he got an error registered with Windows which clearly points to the CPU overheating, his throttle range for his CPU is ~72, he was hitting 74C. Not impossible to think that’s the issue.
Curious, are you using windows 7 as well? I’d suggesting upgrading to Windows 10 to see if that helps. Not to mention all support for Windows 7 will end next year, leaving you open to exploits.
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i have 10.most of the people i hear saying they are having probs are all using 10. i was a lil surprised to see someone still using 7 tbh.
It’d be silly to assume that it’s not got something to do with the hardware if the CPU was punching in 74C. If 7,000,000 games run on a computer and you make 1 of them not overheat, now you only have 6,999,999 other games to make sure don’t cause that problem… or you can attempt to fix your hardware and know it must be on their end.
VT2 seems to be a fringe case, but there’s going to be more than just 1 fringe case. Alternatively, if you fix the computer, there’ll never be a fringe case because you catch them all on your end. Why put the ball on their side of the field when you can first play it on your side? If you play your side first, then you know you made the right call.
@FelixFarside that’s a heart-breaker, my dude. I agree with Smoker; fans up, make sure your heat-sync is properly connected, all that jazz… I really hope you see an improvement. BSoDs are terrifying.
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