Recently in final fantasy, I have been getting heat warnings in my computer while doing things like dynamis. There is absolutely NO WAY this game can be pushing my computer to these limits, yet here I am with this dilema.
Specs
Amd Athalon X2 4000+ 2.2 ghz dual core
2x EVGA Nvidia 8600 GTS 512mb, Basically the 512 version of this card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130394
4 gigs of kingston ddr2 800
My motherboard is an Asus board, forget the specs. I am getting these warning in ffxi only. I do not have such problems in BF2, Any of the FEAR series, any steam games, and Crysis gives me none of these troubles. I have repeatedly ran Virus scans, did a registry fix, reseated my processor and applied a fresh coat of artic silver with a new fan, and have even flashed my bios via the battery removal. All of these things gave me about 1 week worth of leeway before my CPU was reaching temps of 55c. My bios is set to shut off my PC at 65c and the alarm at 55c. While running the game in windowed mode, Im seeing it barely reach 55c. Usually running at 45, with 50 during dynamis. But every few times I will sit at 54.5 and then occasionally reach 55. It will hover at 54.9 and 55 making my computer buzz like some little kid who just found the joys of a doorbell. If anyone can shed any light onto this problem, please help.
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FFXI is pretty processor intensive unless you tell your video card to override some settings.
Under the nVidia control panel, go to the 3D settings panel. You can adjust various things based on your preferences, but you'll definitely want to override most of the "let the program decide" things. Letting FFXI decide means it's going to shunt a lot of the processing work to your CPU when the graphics card could not only handle it, it'd do a better job.
I have roughly the same box as you, down to the same processor and RAM. On my 9600 GT, I have the following settings:
- Anisitropic Filtering x8 (could probably push this to 16)
- Gamma Correction On
- Antialiasing Mode: Override the application
- Antlialiasing Setting: x8Q
- Antialiasing Transparency: Supersampling
- Comformant Texture Clamp: Use hardware
- Extension Limits off
- Force Mipmaps off (I've disabled this in FFXI)
- Max pre-rendered frames: 3
- Single display performance mode (unless you use two monitors)
- Anisitropic filtering on
The rest of the stuff can be set to the defaults.
I recommend picking up a handy little application called SpeedFan. It automatically detects the temperature sensors in your box, and allows you to manually control the fan speeds. It's quite possible that your CPU is reading off a higher temperature than it actually has; if turning the fan on full blast doesn't lower the temperature, then there could be a false reading.
Edited, Sep 29th 2008 2:01pm by catwho
Under the nVidia control panel, go to the 3D settings panel. You can adjust various things based on your preferences, but you'll definitely want to override most of the "let the program decide" things. Letting FFXI decide means it's going to shunt a lot of the processing work to your CPU when the graphics card could not only handle it, it'd do a better job.
I have roughly the same box as you, down to the same processor and RAM. On my 9600 GT, I have the following settings:
- Anisitropic Filtering x8 (could probably push this to 16)
- Gamma Correction On
- Antialiasing Mode: Override the application
- Antlialiasing Setting: x8Q
- Antialiasing Transparency: Supersampling
- Comformant Texture Clamp: Use hardware
- Extension Limits off
- Force Mipmaps off (I've disabled this in FFXI)
- Max pre-rendered frames: 3
- Single display performance mode (unless you use two monitors)
- Anisitropic filtering on
The rest of the stuff can be set to the defaults.
I recommend picking up a handy little application called SpeedFan. It automatically detects the temperature sensors in your box, and allows you to manually control the fan speeds. It's quite possible that your CPU is reading off a higher temperature than it actually has; if turning the fan on full blast doesn't lower the temperature, then there could be a false reading.
Edited, Sep 29th 2008 2:01pm by catwho
You probably need a better heatsink. Fans can only do so much. I'm sure you can tweak some stuff but you might try getting a better heatsink. Its weird though that the other games dont do it.
I have a quad core with a 250cfm strapped to one of the best heat sinks you can buy, and unless Im torrenting, dual boxing FFXI, streaming music, have 7 internet pages open, fraps, vent, aim, and yahoo I dont even begin to push into 50c with my processor overclocked to 4ghz.
Id look into a better heatsink, but thats just me.
I have a quad core with a 250cfm strapped to one of the best heat sinks you can buy, and unless Im torrenting, dual boxing FFXI, streaming music, have 7 internet pages open, fraps, vent, aim, and yahoo I dont even begin to push into 50c with my processor overclocked to 4ghz.
Id look into a better heatsink, but thats just me.
Catwho you are my hero. Marry me.
Edited, Sep 29th 2008 5:38pm by lightningcount
Edited, Sep 29th 2008 5:38pm by lightningcount
Can't marry you (that's bigamy) but I'll friend you on LJ XD
Naw but in all seriousness thanks. I tried everything to do with hardware I could think of. I never would have thought that FFXI forces most of its graphics processing thought the processor. I guess I should have since this game came out when GPUs were little more than something you buy just to say you had one.
I was under the impression that due to the way FFXI is rendered, anti-aliasing has no effect other than a performance hit. Has something changed that I'm not aware of?
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