Notebook temperature

Grimnirsson · Post by **Grimnirsson** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 1:16 pm

Hi folks,

just bought ToF and making my first steps through the tutorials while reading the manual. So far everything's fine and looks interesting, but I have a little problem. I'm using a notebook LG S900 (a huge notebook, a desktop replacement with a 19'' screen) and I have a similar problem with temperature as I had initially with Battle Academy discussed here viewtopic.php?t=30230.

When I played BA the GPU was running hot, not so much the cores and this was resolved to an acceptable temp via a patch that allowed me to manually lowering the fps.

Now ToF is causing about the same degree (80 degree celsius) for the GPU (Nvidia Geforce 8600 M), which is ok, but both my cores are running at 90 degree and sometimes a tick above that, which is not so good. I already lowered the fps to 25 but this didn't change anything for the core temp (I expected that nothing would change, but still it was worth the try).

Is there anything I can do that the game is not causing that much 'stress' for my cores?

I'm using the agent 4 modern map and counter combined mod if that should be relevant.

Thanks!

Grim

doomtrader · Post by **doomtrader** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:01 pm

Hi Grimnirsson,

If you already lowered the FPS and that didn't help you might try to test windowed mode. Sometimes it helps (remember to run it in resolution lower than your desktop resolution).

We are going to try to solve the issue in the future patches.

Grimnirsson · Post by **Grimnirsson** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:55 pm

Hi Doomtrader,

well, usually to run a game in fullscreen is using less capacity of the computer than running it in windowed mode because it doesn't have to manage multiple tasks in the background. I first played the tutorials in windowed mode to read the manual while playing, but that seemed to cause the usual 'fever' problem. So I switched back into fullscreen because of that. I now again switched back to windowed mode to see what happens but this time I started the Grand campaign to give the pc something to do (AI thinking etc.) and my temp was lower. Problem is my main screen has a 1440x900 resolution and when I use the next lower resolution in windowed mode it's hard to see what happens and I lose a good deal of my possible screen this way. Then I started the game new, this time again in full screen and my core temp stays at the same lower area (around 80)...

To check things out I repeated the above mentioned process again with the tutorial and that seems to cause the high temperature for some weird reason. Perhaps that is helpful when you start thinking about possible ways to solve the 'fever problem' for us poor notebook users.

I will run some test games in different settings and see what happens, but if there's anything you can do to keep a notebook cooler while the game is running that would of course be great and much appreciated.

Update: Playing Fall Weiß currently and it's now 85 degree on both cores and stays there, no matter whether I play in full screen or windowed mode...some degrees cooler would really be fine if that is possible to achieve.

What happens if I run the windowed mode in my native screen resolution? I suppose I might lose some of the visible area, but other than that?

And one more question if you don't mind: is there any way to zoom in when I have the naval battle screen open? The ships seem a bit tiny and I can't zoom in...

Thanks for the quick reply and Merry Christmas

Grim