The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

Hello everybody,

There is a workaround for this, but it is a bit technical, so please be careful with this:

Go do "Documents/Humankind/User/[alpha-numeric code]" and open the registry file there with a text editor.

Find the "<Display>" section in this document.

At the end of this section, add the following line: <MaxFrameRate>30</MaxFrameRate>

When you're done, it should look something like this (with the appropriate resolution and quality level and your desired framerate, of course):

<Display>
<DisplayMode>FullscreenWindow</DisplayMode>
<Resolution>3840x2160 (0)</Resolution>
<VSyncCount>0</VSyncCount>
<QualityLevel>Medium</QualityLevel>
<MaxFrameRate>30</MaxFrameRate>
</Display>

This will limit the framerate and should help with the overheating issues.

Can confirm this works, thank you so much for the fix.

I can now play on the Good graphics setting with below 40C temperature.

But if you run this fix with Vsync on, it slowly begins to climb to over 55C temperatures.

Although, I am not sure if this is just due to my monitor, without Vsync I appear to be suffering from some major screen tearing.

This fix works for now, and hopefully this can be polished before release in order for us with high end PCs to enjoy the beauty that is game has to offer.

Thank you so much once again.

Josarifire18 wrote:

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

Hello everybody,

There is a workaround for this, but it is a bit technical, so please be careful with this:

Go do "Documents/Humankind/User/[alpha-numeric code]" and open the registry file there with a text editor.

Find the "<Display>" section in this document.

At the end of this section, add the following line: <MaxFrameRate>30</MaxFrameRate>

When you're done, it should look something like this (with the appropriate resolution and quality level and your desired framerate, of course):

<Display>
<DisplayMode>FullscreenWindow</DisplayMode>
<Resolution>3840x2160 (0)</Resolution>
<VSyncCount>0</VSyncCount>
<QualityLevel>Medium</QualityLevel>
<MaxFrameRate>30</MaxFrameRate>
</Display>

This will limit the framerate and should help with the overheating issues.

Can confirm this works, thank you so much for the fix.

I can now play on the Good graphics setting with below 40C temperature.

But if you run this fix with Vsync on, it slowly begins to climb to over 55C temperatures.

Although, I am not sure if this is just due to my monitor, without Vsync I appear to be suffering from some major screen tearing.

This fix works for now, and hopefully this can be polished before release in order for us with high end PCs to enjoy the beauty that is game has to offer.

Thank you so much once again.

Update I can play on the highest graphics settings with below 45C tempeature.

Vsync still needs to be off though.

Thank you once again.

Nope.

In fact, made things worse for me. Without VSync, I see horrible tear effects even if at 60 FPS. Was better before this "fix".

Oh, and the change did nothing to decrease high GPU usage and high VRAM usage.

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

Hello everybody,

There is a workaround for this, but it is a bit technical, so please be careful with this:

Go do "Documents/Humankind/User/[alpha-numeric code]" and open the registry file there with a text editor.

Find the "<Display>" section in this document.

At the end of this section, add the following line: <MaxFrameRate>30</MaxFrameRate>

When you're done, it should look something like this (with the appropriate resolution and quality level and your desired framerate, of course):

<Display>
<DisplayMode>FullscreenWindow</DisplayMode>
<Resolution>3840x2160 (0)</Resolution>
<VSyncCount>0</VSyncCount>
<QualityLevel>Medium</QualityLevel>
<MaxFrameRate>30</MaxFrameRate>
</Display>

This will limit the framerate and should help with the overheating issues.

This worked for me as well, though as Josarifire18 mentioned, there is a bit of screen tearing. Regardless, I am very happy to be able to actually dive into the beta, and am looking forward to sharing my experience once I have played though the scenario.

Thank you very much for sharing a workaround!! 

To avoid tearing and properly limit the frame rate, use the Nvidia control panel and set it to Adaptive Sync (Half it you want lower fps limit). I have a 120 hz monitor, so I used half to get 60 fps and the game is very smooth.

Wat seems to have helped for me (RTX2080 super Ryzen 3900x) is to go into nvidia panel and limit the framerate to 30fps AND turn v-sync off. I left settings on maximum.

I dont know how to see temperature (?) but my gfx usage has gone from close to 100% when you d often hear the fan working for 2-3 sec to about 50%.

A side-effect of this seems to be my memory usage increased dramatically though from like 2000mb to like 6500mb. Thats not a lot for the amount of RAM i have though so dont care about that.

I also had to tune down quite a bit my video settings to play this build, turning off Vsync and setting Quality Level to Fastest. Otherwise, on higher quality levels, I'd experienced frequent crashes, and an over use of my GPUs, leading to some partial overheating.

That felt quite weird and annoying, since I've been able to enjoy both Lucy and Victor OpenDevs on highest settings without too much performance flaws or crashes.

Here are my specs for the record :

HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics, ~3.0GHz

Memory: 16384MB RAM

GPU 1 : AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics

GPU 2 : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti

Not sure if this is appropriate to post here since the game's out now, but I'm getting very high GPU usage and temps on Fantastic running a 3070ti. Turning Vsync on or off or limiting frames to 60 fps in the game's menu doesn't appear to help too much.

Adding on to the pile. My GPU (RTX 2080) sounds like a jet engine when I run this game. I know this is a (slightly) older post, but this is what comes up in google when I search for the problem. I tried limiting the fps to 60 as well.