This Game Cooks My PC Till My Heatsink Triggers a Shut Down

[println]

Hi, I remembered playing this game a long time ago on my cheap Dell laptop. It worked fine then, however, I am having HORRIFIC results on a rig that should be more than capable of running this game.

I re-downloaded it the other night to, as I said, horrific results. I was playing it for about 20 minutes until both my monitors turned off, and my PC force shut down. I put my hand on the side of my PC to find out that my PC was baking, absolutely roasting while playing this game.

Now before I go any further, these are my specs: RX 580 Black Edition(GPU), AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU, 16 GB of DDR RAM, the relevant specs. These specs can handle Red Dead Redemption 2 on High-Ultra settings, no problem.

Except for Haven & Hearth. This game has made my PC shut down unexpectingly 3 times, 1 time I was just playing normally, the other 2 times was trying to diagnose WHY it was using 100% of my GPU and causing it to be 100 degrees celsius+.
The frames are limited to 1. Literally, the game runs a 1 FPS and still manages to roast my PC. I also changed other video settings hoping it would help, but it only seems to make it worse.

The first time I played Haven & Hearth on this rig it lasted about 20-30 minutes before my PC shut down due to my heatsink triggering due to my PC overheating. The other 2 times was me trying to figure out WHY it was happening and HOW I can fix it; in this other two circumstances, my PC shut down much faster than the first time; took only about 5 minutes for the other shutdowns to occur.

What could be causing this? I'm using the autohaven-(username) executable JAR file to play the game. I have deleted it though. This game is worse than any virus I've ever had in terms of destruction lol.

Seriously though, is there anything that can be done?

Thanks in advance.

[vatas]

This might be case of an age-old issue where Java/OpenGL uses the graphics chip built into your CPU instead the proper GPU. I don't remember what the fix to this was, but you could try completely disabling the integrated graphics on CPU.

Some potential help: viewtopic.php?f=47&t=69632&p=870299&hilit=integrated#p870300

[println]

This might be case of an age-old issue where Java/OpenGL uses the graphics chip built into your CPU instead the proper GPU. I don't remember what the fix to this was, but you could try completely disabling the integrated graphics on CPU.

Some potential help: viewtopic.php?f=47&t=69632&p=870299&hilit=integrated#p870300

Hi vatas, thank you for your response.

Unfortunately, my Ryzen 5 2600 CPU does not have an integrated GPU. AMD's APU lineup is the only Ryzen CPUs that offer integrated graphics.

When running Haven & Hearth and observing via Task Manager, it shows that Haven & Hearth uses 70%-100% of my GPU at all times. Please note my RX 580 has 8GB of VRAM that is constantly consumed by H&H the entire time it's opened, no matter what option I tweak. Even does so at 1FPS.

[loftar]

It does sound quite weird that the Haven client would be using 70-100% of an RX 580 and 8 GB of VRAM (it only uses 55% of my GTX 750 and 200-500 MB VRAM). Even so however, your computer shouldn't shut down because of thermal issues even if you're running a power virus, so if that's the case, then you're definitely having some sort of hardware (or possibly drtiver/VBIOS) issue. I can't obviously tell what the problem would be if you're also running RDR2 without problems.

If your GPU is managing to overheat to that extent, I have wonder if the fan is even running properly? Perhaps there's some weird driver/VBIOS issue that prevents it from recognizing Haven as a load that would require spinning it up? (Wild guess for sure, since the fan should spin of due to temperatures rather than some weird heuristic load detection, but I can't really think of anything else.) Perhaps there's something with your OpenGL driver in case the games that are working fine are using DirectX?

[println]

It does sound quite weird that the Haven client would be using 70-100% of an RX 580 and 8 GB of VRAM (it only uses 55% of my GTX 750 and 200-500 MB VRAM). Even so however, your computer shouldn't shut down because of thermal issues even if you're running a power virus, so if that's the case, then you're definitely having some sort of hardware (or possibly drtiver/VBIOS) issue. I can't obviously tell what the problem would be if you're also running RDR2 without problems.

If your GPU is managing to overheat to that extent, I have wonder if the fan is even running properly? Perhaps there's some weird driver/VBIOS issue that prevents it from recognizing Haven as a load that would require spinning it up? (Wild guess for sure, since the fan should spin of due to temperatures rather than some weird heuristic load detection, but I can't really think of anything else.) Perhaps there's something with your OpenGL driver in case the games that are working fine are using DirectX?

It's most definitely because of my heatsink, the game is throttling my GPU. I played 4 hours of Cities Skylines today on max settings and did not even reach 70c, which it commonly hits when I play very demanding games like RDR2.

Tonight I'm going to install the Enders Client and see if that makes a difference.

Cheers.

[KwonChiMin]

Having sorta same problems lately. But running not default client, so cant complain.