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Whenever I play CK2 my computer goes totally nuts. The game itself runs fine and I have no problems with it what so ever, except the irritating fact that it makes my GPU fan work like crazy. No other game does that, not even Crysis 2, Battlefield 3, Shogun 2 Total War etc.

Can I do something to make the load on the GPU less? I have already tried to play in windowed mode with lower resolution and disabled trees and stuff but it does not help at all. I appreciate any help!

Cheers!
 
It's almost certainly overheating. Check for updated video drivers, but you should check that all your fans are working, vents aren't blocked by dust, and so on. Use SPEEDFAN to check temperatures, if your machine doesn't provide a way of reading temps.
 
AndrewT said:
It's almost certainly overheating. Check for updated video drivers, but you should check that all your fans are working, vents aren't blocked by dust, and so on. Use SPEEDFAN to check temperatures, if your machine doesn't provide a way of reading temps.
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Yeah I figured CK2 makes my GPU really warm and that is why im writing here because other games that is very GPU demanding, like Battlefield 3, does not affect my GPU fan speed like CK2 does. Have already cleaned my computer thoroughly and there is no dust blocking the vents. The only thing I can think of right now is that Im running on nvidias latest BETA drivers(who apparently works best with Battlefield 3). Gonna install some older drivers and see if the problem still occurs.
 
Paradox games push the video card harder than almost any other game. Not because of detailed graphics or high resolutions, but because it offloads as much work as possible onto the video processor, to free up the main CPU to deal with the vast amount of data the game uses to model history. See jpd's excellent post on the topic.
 
AndrewT said:
Paradox games push the video card harder than almost any other game. Not because of detailed graphics or high resolutions, but because it offloads as much work as possible onto the video processor, to free up the main CPU to deal with the vast amount of data the game uses to model history. See jpd's excellent post on the topic.
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Thanks a bunch, but the url does not seem to work :unsure:
 
Just cause i'm curious, could somebody post the relevant post here as i have no access to any of the linked forums ?
 
Could you please summarize it here. If you haven't bought EU3 you can't see those posts. I've got an absolutely redonkulous computer, my fan has been revving up but I never bothered to really check what was going on. So I loaded up EVGA precision and the game pegs my GPU at 100%. This is not good, I don't want my GPU running at 100%. I am hoping there is a way I can throttle the game from dumping onto my GPU as I am fairly certain my quad core 2500k OC'd to 5GHZ is fine. As it is on speed 5 I blow through a month in about 5 seconds.
 
The EU3 posts are not relevant to that situation, and don't provide any way of "throttling the GPU"; which is just a way of saying "have less demanding graphics, up the cooling, or have a more powerful GPU". You clearly have a hardware problem and no amount of commentary on why EU3 uses more of the GPU than you might expect from the visible resolution will help you in the slightest.
 
AndrewT said:
The EU3 posts are not relevant to that situation, and don't provide any way of "throttling the GPU"; which is just a way of saying "have less demanding graphics, up the cooling, or have a more powerful GPU". You clearly have a hardware problem and no amount of commentary on why EU3 uses more of the GPU than you might expect from the visible resolution will help you in the slightest.
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You're confused. I have no hardware issue. If the game is dumping cycles onto the GPU, it is unnecessary for my computer. I simply do not want extra cycles put on my GPU. It doesn't run at 100% load in any game I've ever played.

I am running an EVGA GTX 580 superclock, it handles 4 SWTOR clients at once at about 65% load and sits at around 55C. It idles at around 28C. My computer absolutely crushes this game, I simply would rather not have my graphics card running at 100% load to make an already unbelievably fast game run slightly faster. Again, a month pops by in 3 seconds. Clearly the issue *is* hardware /nod

Further evidence, I just under-clocked my video card the maximum I can with EVGA precision and it makes no noticeable impact on my game performance. However instead of 100% load climbing my GPU into temperatures I don't like to see, the GPU temp stabilizes at 52C with fan at 61%.
 
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The game uses your GPU to aid with game computations and there's nothing that can be done about that. It's been like that since EU3 1.0 , 6 years ago at the least. If you were hoping for a game switch to turn that off, I'm sorry but there is none.

You could perhaps reduce the graphical resolution and turn trees off. We have found that updating video drivers helps this sometimes. If those measures don't help then either your GPU is not cooled properly, or it is inadequate to the task.
 
AndrewT said:
The game uses your GPU to aid with game computations and there's nothing that can be done about that. It's been like that since EU3 1.0 , 6 years ago at the least. If you were hoping for a game switch to turn that off, I'm sorry but there is none.

You could perhaps reduce the graphical resolution and turn trees off. We have found that updating video drivers helps this sometimes. If those measures don't help then either your GPU is not cooled properly, or it is inadequate to the task.
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Are you trying to troll? You have to be trying to troll. I'm willing to bet that ANYONE who checks will find that their GPU is being pushed to 100% load by this game. The game isn't taxing graphically, do you understand the video card I am running is one of the very best on the market? Turning graphics down might help someone who has a sub-par computer. The issue isn't performance for me. Far from it. The issue is that I would prefer my video card to not have extra CPU cycles dumped on it which pushes it to 100% load.

Again, I am willing to bet anyone that actually checks what their video card is doing while playing this game will find that it is running at or very close to 100% load. For many people this is probably strictly graphical related. For me it isn't graphical related as my test to underclock my video card made ZERO impact on the game visually, framerate, or speed.

The only issue here is I would rather my video card doesn't run UNNECESSARILY at 100% load. However since the issue doesn't seem to be controllable in any way, I will resort to SLOWING my video card down so that the game doesn't get carried away using resources it DOESN'T NEED.
 
I'm willing to bet that ANYONE who checks will find that their GPU is being pushed to 100% load by this game.
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It doesn't do that in a virtual XP machine on my Mac or Linux platforms.

The game isn't taxing graphically
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Again, the game uses the GPU for non-graphical purposes. Whether its graphics are taxing or not is entirely irrelevant.

The issue is that I would prefer my video card to not have extra CPU cycles dumped on it which pushes it to 100% load.
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To the best of my knowledge there is nothing you can do with the game itself, aside from what I've already suggested, that might affect its usage of the GPU.
 
cccino said:
Try fraps or something similar to see what FPS it's running at. If it's something ridiculous like 500fps you could see if you can force vsync on in the nvidea control panel or profile.
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Very weird. So I loaded up fraps, I am getting around 350 when paused and 220ish unpaused. So on speed 5 I check my GPU useage, 22%, speed 4, 82-100%. Paused, 99-100%. I have no idea how to interpret that information :)
 
I haven't had an nvidia card in a long time but I believe you can create settings profiles on a game by game basis. If you force vsync, it should cap the FPS to 60 which will eliminate your 100% usage problem. I don't know the technical reasons for the speed/paused observations, but vertical sync always on (however the option is described in nvidia profile) should work.
 
cccino said:
I haven't had an nvidia card in a long time but I believe you can create settings profiles on a game by game basis. If you force vsync, it should cap the FPS to 60 which will eliminate your 100% usage problem. I don't know the technical reasons for the speed/paused observations, but vertical sync always on (however the option is described in nvidia profile) should work.
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I run a 120 hz so it would cap at 120, but yes it might make a difference.
 
Regardless of why this is happening it is completely ridiculous. I have been playing EU3 for years now, but just now I loaded up CK2 and my GPU fan went nuts like I've never heard before. I know I only have i5 760 Quadcore processor and a GTX470 graphics card, but that is by no means low-end. My CPU should not be dumping tasks on the GPU causing it to overheat. There is no justification for this, and it needs to be fixed. As it is, I cannot play CK2, which I just bought, because the fan disturbs the rest of the household too much at 100%. Besides, I'd really rather not have my fan running at 100% through the many, many hours I intend to play this game - it would be expensive to me in new hardware due to wear and tear.
 
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