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Lowtiercomputer

Looking for help or advice: Overheating RX5700

Question

Hello fellow viking survival friends,

I've got a system running a brand new AMD RX5700 and when running Valheim it creeps up in temperature until it reaches ~94C at which it will crash. I've only (accidentally) let it do this once, but now I'm scared as it tries to do so every time I play the game.

Has anyone else had this happen? Found a solution?

My old system had an RX5700 Evoke OC and had no issues with the game whatsoever.

Posted Apr 10, 2021, 10:24 PM UTC

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Ursanxiety•

Does it only happen in Valheim or other games? could just be a faulty card.

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LowtiercomputerOP•

So far only in Valheim. Even at max graphics in VR it never gets near 90.

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GreattCornholio•

I have a rx5700 xt, bought new in January and mine never reaches above 80 on the highest settings, could be a faulty card

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LowtiercomputerOP•

Could be, but even in VR or other games it never goes above 77.

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Hela_AWBB•

I have a RX2080 and Valheim jacks the temp right up too. Even with more than sufficient cooling and no issues with more graphically intense games it has become a struggle. I've just stopping playing unfortunately, wasn't worth stressing an otherwise flawlessly working GPU

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LowtiercomputerOP•

I've unfortunately done the same. I thought it was because my friends were building up this monstrous majestic house, but I tried it out once more and it would do the same thing just walking through a big open meadow.

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Hela_AWBB•

It sucks so much! I have plenty of other games to play but I miss being out on my longboat and going on big voyages of exploration :( The hours I clocked sailing...

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ragged-robin•

Maybe try vulkan?

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LowtiercomputerOP•

I have. No improvement.

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catcrowdogboi•

My RTX2070 super consistently will be at 85C + if i try to run Valheim at native 4k, or even 2k. My GPU temp drops from 85+ to 60C and silent when i turn the resolution to 1080p at 60Hz. Tbh any RTC card from 2018 or newer shoulsbt really be stuttering or oveeheating with the tech Valheim uses, which leads me to believe there is a CPU bottleneck and probably a memory leak somewhere. Im not super technologically inclined and our specs are different, ive never experienced a temp related crash, but turning down the resolution and limiting multitasking on my PC has definitely helped with QoL

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LowtiercomputerOP•

How would a CPU bottleneck overheat a GPU?

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