Graphics Card heat issue

Calamitous Oeuvre · #1 07-01-2010, 11:34 PM

Hey all,

So I am wondering if anyone else experiences this issue. I have an ATI EAH4850 card on an ASUS mobo that has this nifty little Smart Doctor app that monitors GPU and RAM temps. When I play EQ the card heats up to 190+ F, at 200 SD turns off my comp on me. I've tried running GW and the card runs fine, 2042 and the card is fine....its just EQ that gets the card heating up to unsafe levels....any ideas as to why this would be? I even have the game at low settings (not that it should matter with my card, but I do) and it still heats up and turns off on me.

Qaedain · #2 07-02-2010, 12:02 AM

IIRC, the Radeon HD 4000+ series (as well as comparable video cards) alter the RPMs for the fan when it detects 3D graphics. The fan is run at very slow speeds when running 2D graphics to save on noise and power.

It's possible that EQ isn't properly being detected by the GPU drivers as a 3D app.

Calamitous Oeuvre · #3 07-02-2010, 12:09 AM

any way to apply this as a 3d device? im looking at the settings and there is an enable hyper drive setting that has 3d game mode under hyper drive...would that perhaps solve the issue?