Shadows

(flomin) #1

I have played Brink on the pc for quite some time now and i love it, but i started getting overheating issues lately. My GPU temperature goes over 105 C and my fans are spinning at 100%. After like 10 minutes in game my pc shuts itself down.
My pc should be able to handle Brink really well, but clearly it doesnt. Even after ive put the shadow quality on medium and cleaned my case completely.
I was having the same issues in League of Legends, which surprisingly is a really GPU stressing game. I was able to drop the temperature while playing League of Legends by over 25 C by just disabling the shadows and maybe it would help if anyone knew a way to do this in Brink.

Thanks in advance, flomin

(kilL_888) #2

r_shadows 0 is the command to disable shadows.

would also help if you let us know what gfx card you’re using or if you use riva tuner for instance (works for ati and nvidia) to monitor the gpu load of your card.

(flomin) #3

Thanks for the reply.

My graphics card is an nvidia geforce GT 240. I dont use rivatuner, because I have some administrator issues on my pc, caused by some kind of trojan, which make it unable to use that program, but those problems are irrelevant and i can use another user account to be able to use rivatuner if that would be necissary.

(kilL_888) #4

if you have some kind of trojan on your system i reccomend removing it or format your drive and reinstall windows.

if you install riva tuner, you can compare the gpu load of other games and see how that affects the temp of your gpu. you also wanna look inside your case and clean the cooler of your card.

cards are usually designed to be able to run at high gpu loads and should not shut down or overheat at the manufactured clock speeds. i didnt read that you overclocked, but that might also be a reason for overheating. might wanna check this, too.

(Fatfool) #5

[QUOTE=kilL_888;337324]if you have some kind of trojan on your system i reccomend removing it or format your drive and reinstall windows.

if you install riva tuner, you can compare the gpu load of other games and see how that affects the temp of your gpu. you also wanna look inside your case and clean the cooler of your card.

cards are usually designed to be able to run at high gpu loads and should not shut down or overheat at the manufactured clock speeds. i didnt read that you overclocked, but that might also be a reason for overheating. might wanna check this, too.[/QUOTE]
highly doubtful that he knows how to overclock. In any case, if it’s on stock, a power virus shouldn’t be able to shut it down either… Then again, I’m not used to seeing such ‘low end’ cards. The high powered, longer than ATX size ones can maintain their temps though; even on furmark.