hi, i bought the game a little while ago, i am using the latest version 1.3.2

i started the game today and the normal idle temps of the GPU are shown in the attachment.

if i run the game full screen at highest graphical quality ingame settings the temp of the GPU can go up to 72 degrees celcius , plus the fans spin like crazy.

the cpu usage doesnt show any noticeable differences, and the casefan seems okay, its the GPU that sems to get a bashing while running the game.

so i tried the lowest settings, unfortunately the explosions/background lights effects and other effects cant be turned of in order to lower the strain on the GPU, that pencil animation also cant be turned off.

is there a way in a config file or so to turn all these things off to releave the stress on my GPU while playing the game? i mean the lighting, the background explosions, and all other environmental graphic effects, can these all be turned off? Or is there perhaps a 'hidden' developer way to turn these off?

Personally I just leave all the settings maxed out and run it anyway. If it gets too hot/noisy just quit the game for a while and give your GPU a chance to cool down somewhat.

I don't think changing the graphics settings will change anything, since there's no reason that this game should thrash any graphics card released within the last 10 years even at maxed out settings with high res. There's probably some dodgy code in there somewhere that's causing this.

I've had similar GPU thrashing happening with other games where one would think the GPU should be able to handle it without problems. Obviously some dodgy coding somewhere along the line, either by the devs themselves or by a third-party library they're using.

thanks for the reply

i agree, especially the part about dodgy code

example of dodgy code that effects my poor gts 250 1 GB GPU

unity games, like pillars and loads of others, all made with unity,
funny thing is most of these are coded very badly. coded with dodgy code like you said.

pillars is to high on my gpu, i have several retail casualgames also in unity created and these are all heating up the gpu.
Now comes the fun part: Celestian Tales: Old North also unity product, but this game behaves normal, so this proves that the other devs who used unity and are 'bashing' my gpu, are bad coders, the bad thing is they patch gliches, weapons, fonts all that small stuff, but the main thing: performance is always forgotten.

So if Celestian Tales: Old North can have a normal unity game why cant the big pillar boys also have normal code?
they cant blame that on unity, the blame is at the devs.
Same goes for adobe air, some games bash the gpu, and other adobe air games behave normal, so again bad coding.

Ah well i guess all we can do is hope they 'wake up' and fix that dodgy code, or increase the minimum requirements, i know by experience (gaming for years now) that most of the min. req. are to low. ,my quad core can handle it well its the GTS 250 , but according to many min. requirements even cards much lower then my GTS 250 should be able to handle it.
So the devs, the ones who create the game should be more carefull when they say what minimum requirements a game needs, they often fail at the GPU part :D

Wouldn't this be because of excessive frame rates more than anything? It is hard to overheat a graphics card any other way. Limit it and see what happens. Vsync locking it at 60 fps is one way but I personally like to force harsh limits at around 40 fps for most games to ensure I'm not making my computer work harder than necessary.

You may have a point - limiting frame rate should (in theory) help to alleviate this.

That doesn't change the fact that these games could have been coded better to not require that though.

problem solved this topic can be closed:

solution:

dont play the game ( unistalled it and hid it on my shelves ) made a note to myself to be very carefull buying unity games ( or wintermute /visoniare related games) and only try when i can have a playable demo that works a charm.

this 'll sound daft but have you changed your monitor recently ?

reason i ask is i built my monitor from an old laptop screen and added a controller board to make it work
now here's what i noted

samsung screen idles about 28 oC

other lg phillips screen 43 oC (the screen is from an identical laptop and the panel is near identical in specs afaik)

now the controller board is identified as a mstar demo but it works great (the board gets quite hot but i solved that with a few extra heatsinks)

i tried the controller board on both panels

as you can see their is a bit of a difference in temps

it's the first lcd i have owned the rest were crt screens

just curious

The CRT i use now on my win7 is the same as the one i used on win XP, i did had another crt monitor long long ago, that was when i used win 98SE , i joined GOG in 2014 , by then i already used win xp, so the monitor is the same.
Anyway regarding heatsink.... saving now for a new build pc, probably i3 8100 , this machine setup will have a better ventilated case with at least 2 external fans extra, maybe even 3 of 4 fans , hardware will be newer so better cooled and better hardware, current setup almost 9 years old ( it should have been ++++ 4 to 5 years ago , but.... euro (2002 ) introduction ruined all that ..... (✖﹏✖) things got more expensive ....

sorry i was talking about the monitors circuit board not the pc itself :) but i get what you mean ;)

everyone who sees it laughs as it was hand made, (i don't know or care about fps on it) but it works for me, tv pictures are good and games work ok

all i can say is (assuming you liked twom ) is wait till you get a newer gpu or alternately bump the speed of the fan up in nvidia's control panel with manual control enabled (edit i see you said the fan is going crazy)

when i leave my gpu fan on low speed because of the noise (and forget), and then play games, the fan revs up (usually cause it's hit 85 oC ) then i have to shut down the game i'm playing and set it to at least 50% or more depending on the game to keep it cool

i never leave the settings on automatic

and yes i remember this game runs hot, iirc it ran a little bit cooler on my old crt
sorry i looked and couldn't see any config files in the mod pdf i'm sure their are some but i couldn't see them
have you tried contacting 11bit studios?

Thanks for the reply and questions, i have a new GPU but same stuff :D

now my GPU is a lazy ... hardly goes over 40 degrees celsius ( only when flashplayer is used ( online games, playing videos online is awfull)so the GPU is lying on its lazy back doing nothing and the old CPu is breaking a sweat ...

The old 1 GB gpu is gone, thank god..., newer gpu GTX 750 ti 2 GB is so much better but now the GPU is the 'overkill ' :D ah well... i'm getting bored /tired with my old dinosaur but have to keep it cause i dont want the awful win 10 which is related to ET, all it does ( win 10) is phone home.

Anyway Intel had some problems again ... so now prices went up.... this way i be 80 or up ( probably wont reach that so...) and still saving for a new setup ....