zephar123 wrote:
One interesting thing for sure, is nvidia seem to run hotter then ATI on this engine. Keep in mind that ATI and Nvidia have always had their own ways of doing things.
Thanks for being objective. If your curious I am running an ATI card.
This one in fact.
Relandi wrote:
To all the "it's your cooling" people .. ha, just ha.
If I am wrong then I am wrong, and I have no problem with that. I'm not always right. If I am wrong, then the issue is 100% software related and Notorious's new guy fixes everything and we all are happy. If I am right or partially right and the new guy only drops the degrees a little bit, what are you going to do then, go back to Global Agenda? Either way, I still benefit.
JCatano wrote:
You implied that we know nothing at all and it was a hardware issue on our end. Many of us have enough experience to know what the issue is, and it's quite obvious when many people are running in the 80's and 90's.
And it's not necessarily spec related. Not meeting the specs doesn't automatically cause your PC/GPU to overheat. My old GPU didn't meet DF requirements, but ran at 59-64 degrees. My current card runs at 65-72.
Cleaning up the graphics can do wonders for temps (just as it did in SWG beta).
I came into this with an open mind. It wasn't until I was told it was absolutely and completely 100% a software issue did I respond in absolute. I do the same thing on The Old Republic forums. You make an argument that X is the only way to go then I will fully support Y. That's just the way I discuss. You want to consider other possibilities than we'll find ourselves on the same page.
I don't like dealing in absolute. Especially when I only have access to 50% of the problem. In my RL job, I am an advanced support technician with 5 years experience and a degree in programming for a software company, so there I have the luxury of viewing both sides of an issue, those sides being the end-user and the developer. Here, not so much. I can only fix the problem as an end-user with Xsyon. Which for the most part is what I was doing since none of us have access to the code to program it ourselves. I suppose in my experience I've encountered more issues of end-users blaming software only to find out it is in fact an end-user issue. Plus the only time I had ever experienced overheating problems myself with gaming was with my own cooling.
Perhaps it is not a spec issue. 'Can U Run It' says I can't run Global Agenda and I ran it fine. But what if the new guy optimizes the code but your GPU still runs to hot, what are you going to do? What can you do, other than not play the game?
Maybe I just suck balls and you all can laugh as I go through video card after video card but this is my second PC since 2002 and I built this in 2008 so I think I have another 4 years to go. Without any maintenance this baby been running good for past 2 years. So if getting a new PC every 6 years is laughable, then laugh away. I don't care.