[No Bug] possible overheating issue

[eatthis]

i appear to have a problem with my cpu overheating and shutting down my pc. its a 5900x overclocked to 4.8ghz. iv had the overclock since launch and never had overheating (i have SERIOUS watercooling). its only happening with the f4, nothing else bothers it. im gonna redo the thermal paste and try it, anybody else had this issue? a mate of mine is having bsod in the phantom on his laptop and hes beggining to suspect overheating too

Edited May 31, 2024 by HB_Painter
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[riojax]

Try to turn off the radar, the current radar implementation is very CPU demandant.

[TOViper]

This is when DCS is so real, that even your computer starts overheating when using the radar for too long without adequate cooling. Like in the the F-4 on ground.
Isn't DCS F-4E a great sim in that sense?

It seems easy to turn radar off on ground, but what if you use it in air? Does your computer feel ram air then?

Edited May 30, 2024 by TOViper

[eatthis]

48 minutes ago, riojax said:

Try to turn off the radar, the current radar implementation is very CPU demandant.

thanks il try that. even cpu stresstesting doesnt hit those temps! 

[eatthis]

redoing the thermal paste helped a little but still shut down after an hour or so, only happens with the phantom. nothing else i use the pc for bothers it

 

[SloppyDog]

10 hours ago, eatthis said:

i appear to have a problem with my cpu overheating and shutting down my pc. its a 5900x overclocked to 4.8ghz. iv had the overclock since launch and never had overheating (i have SERIOUS watercooling). its only happening with the f4, nothing else bothers it. im gonna redo the thermal paste and try it, anybody else had this issue? a mate of mine is having bsod in the phantom on his laptop and hes beggining to suspect overheating too

I have a 4700K i7, I see you have a 7700K. The Suffix K in Intel CPUS means that they dont' have a self imposed limit to performance, they'll do whatever it takes to deliver whatever is being demanded from them. And that means going really, really hot, if they need to be.

MY CPU was reaching 88-90 ºC easily with DCS and Prepared3D v5. Heck, in P3D it was even worse. So shutdowns were pretty common. I've changed my CPU air cooler to a water coller one, that helped a little. What did really help was to undervolt it, using a software called Intel Extreme Tuning Utility. Undervolting and limiting the FPS to 60 really helped to maintain temps at the 70 -80º C range. Of course, I did have to tune down my settings a lot, using basically the Medium default setting of DCS, but now temps are under control and I can play without worrying (to much) about the CPU shutting down due to overheat.

 

 

[eatthis]

9 hours ago, SloppyDog said:

I have a 4700K i7, I see you have a 7700K. The Suffix K in Intel CPUS means that they dont' have a self imposed limit to performance, they'll do whatever it takes to deliver whatever is being demanded from them. And that means going really, really hot, if they need to be.

MY CPU was reaching 88-90 ºC easily with DCS and Prepared3D v5. Heck, in P3D it was even worse. So shutdowns were pretty common. I've changed my CPU air cooler to a water coller one, that helped a little. What did really help was to undervolt it, using a software called Intel Extreme Tuning Utility. Undervolting and limiting the FPS to 60 really helped to maintain temps at the 70 -80º C range. Of course, I did have to tune down my settings a lot, using basically the Medium default setting of DCS, but now temps are under control and I can play without worrying (to much) about the CPU shutting down due to overheat.

i have an amd 5900x, 1.35v at 4.8ghz on water. 
somebody said theres a simple setting for radar that reduces cpu load, what is it and what does it do

 

 

 

[Tornado]

I did the same discovery. When flying with the F-4E the temperatures of the CPU cores started to rise (very quick already after a few seconds). Some of them came even for half second to 100 Celsius. The average is about 70 to 80 Celsius. I used the app "core temp" to monitor the temperature during flying with the Phantom. The other aircraft (F-16/F-18/F-15 and the Mirage 2000) showed no significant high temperatures. 65 Celsius was the top rate. I also use MSI Afterburner to monitor the GPU and CPU. I do not overclock the GPU. Just to monitor the hardware. However with the F-4E flying the GPU stays relative low all the time. Around 50/55 Celsius. It is only the CPU who gets the pushes to higher temperatures. I have to settings in DCS to 60 FPS and not full to 300. When setting is to full 300, then the problem get even worse. The CPU is liquid cooled. It also occurred when F2 mode (watching your aircraft) so not only with the cockpit on the screen. My specs:

12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900K   3.20 GHz

32 RAM

MSI motherboard PRO Z790-A wifi DDR 4

Nvidia MSI GPU Geforce RTX 4080 Suprim

Windows 11 Home 23H2

Dell alienware screen 120Hz 3440x1440

Tobii Eye tracker 5

Thrustmaster warthog, new AVA base FA-18C stick and Viper Panel

2x SSD harddisks:

 Solid State Drive 1: Samsung 980 PRO 2TB, Solid State Drive 2: Samsung 970 PRO 2TB

I hope Heatblur can repair this issue soon. It is something that you don't see when you not monitoring your system. So many are not aware about it I guess

Greetz

Tornado