Guild Wars 2

Hey,

The CPU temperature of my Mac mini (specs see attached file) is getting incredibly hot (over 80° C) when I play GW2. The ambient air is not much cooler. The fan runs w/ 3000+ rpm.

I was in an official Apple Retailstore and they told me that it is a problem Guild Wars is causing. Everything is fine w/ my Mac. For example, if I use Adobe Ps Lr 5 or AVID Mc 7 the rpm and temperature are in an acceptable range (40° C – 60° C and about 1800 rpm).

Please fix this problem as soon as possible, I don’t want to loose my Mac due to overheating.

Thx in advance.

P.S.: Are other users have the same problem, or am I the only one?

This is because your mac is having to run both Cider and GW2 at the same time. GW2 is already an INCREDIBLY CPU intensive game, running it inside Cider just makes it even worse.

My honest suggestion, install Windows through Bootcamp and play GW2 on there.

My MacBookPro gets pretty toasty playing GW2 as well I think it’s less to do with how much process the game uses other very processor and graphics heavy games or programs never get my machine as hot as Guild Wars. I think it’s bad utilization somewhere in either Cider or Guild Wars II it may be Guild Wars II doesn’t like running as a 32 bit process and that’s the environment Cider simulates. Also Guild Wars II is optimized for multi-core processors I don’t know how many cores Cider lets you use.

Just my thoughts I’m no expert here

*use canned air to clean out air vents and fans of dust in your computer
*get istat menus, which can manually control the fan speed (set it to high early so it won’t overheat after a few hours)
*remove clutter from around the computer. So many computer desks have a cubbyhole for the computer… that’s a bad location. it needs air flow.
*if all else fails: cpu-intensive games can cause overheating… it sucks. If everything is working right and it’s still overheating, you need a faster computer.

i don’t really see how your CPU can get that hot i run gw2 on a mid 2010 macbook pro with low fps ofc but i still manage to get my CPU to 70° C, i would recommend you running a program to control the fan speed of your mac mini and set it to high like Mystic said.

its not just GW2 . The other games like WoW, EQ2 , Diablo same as GW2 because incredibly CPU intensive game moving so fast from use processor and graphics. my Mac pro show shoot up 140F when on game then went down to 101F when turn off the game. the mac and PC are same like that. keep the air flow open space clean off the dust use the air can spray ( do not use the vacuum cleaner it will kill cpu or other thing. ) keep the pet away from your computer from pet hairs will block the air vent.

I’ve always wondered if putting the computer inside a mini fridge would be a good idea, then I found out that computers have optimum temperatures they need to run at. Like: too cold could slow it down. it would especially affect disc drives, and probably also HDD’s

Mystic.5934:

I’ve always wondered if putting the computer inside a mini fridge would be a good idea, then I found out that computers have optimum temperatures they need to run at. Like: too cold could slow it down. it would especially affect disc drives, and probably also HDD’s

A fridge no, but ideally the room you run the computer in should be air-conditioned, hence why high school/university computer rooms always have the air-conditioning on and are a little chilly. The computer should run at a certain temperature, but having the air around it cooled will help it stay at a constant temperature.

I did some googling… looks like computer-in-a-fridge is bad for other reasons: condensation will reduce the life expectancy of the computer down to weeks, fridge will burn out within days from overworking (normally they are only cooling like 10% of the time – computer in there would increase that to 100%)

don’t us the refrigerator for try cooling on mac. just clean the dust off the fan, heat sink, and tower or case. find the cool place keep away from the heat. but will be nice mac pro tower use the water block. i use the overclocker on my pc for long ago, cost a lot of $$$ for replace parts and getting to old for overclocker club (8 years).
OH by the way clean of the hard drive too . hard disk running so hard and get more heat.