Guild Wars 2

Makes sense. Ended up taking off the heatsink, giving everything a good clean and putting it back on with some higher quality thermal paste, and it’s running a little bit cooler.. Still gets up to 85-90 in game but that’s way better than the 92-100 it was hitting before. Still have to wonder why it’s running so hot now…

Other factors are taken care of. It’s well ventilated, fans are all working, case has good airflow, and it’s in a room that’s kept at 74 degrees. Maybe I just have a defective card or something. It’s also possible that the card was just designed to run that hot at max and other games aren’t using max capabilities for some reason. It is a superclocked model.

Okay, I’ll bite that overheating is a hardware problem, but can you explain why other high intensity games like crysis and even a stress testing program don’t cause the game to overheat, whereas ONLY GW2 does? I know sometimes driver software and game software don’t play nice together and can lead to stuff not working correctly.

Well either way I’m gonna try cleaning out the fan and heatsink.

It isn’t possible that a buggy piece of code in the rendering or effects is causing the video card to run more calculations then it is supposed to and thus overheat? Also if it were a hardware issue, wouldn’t the card heat up equally as hot when running other games like Crysis, Dishonored, or Thief?

Hello, I’m having an issue with overheating and guild wars 2. Ever since the recent megaserver patch, my Nvidia GTX 570 graphics card reaches temperatures of around 85 degrees with low settings and up to 95-100 degrees on high settings. It didn’t reach these temperatures before the patch and the card still runs at a cooler temp of 75 degrees with other high end games, so it probably isn’t the card.

Any idea what could be causing the sudden spike in temperature? Could it be some sort of graphical bug with guild wars?