I don’t know what to make of this issue. I’ve done everything I can on my end to ensure vsync is on, monitor capping fps to 60hz. The heat this game generates is atrocious.
I’ve been lucky to not have any serious crashing or artifacting from over heating…About 15 years ago a certain alpha in an mmo I can’t remember burned out one of my video cards so I’ve been leary about gpu heat issues ever since then I make sure I am running 75% fans when gaming, in every game. I didn’t like how the radeon software was idling fans and not ramping up so I took control.
There has been reports that this unity game engine has issues with True full screen mode, which I believe they call Exclusive full screen mode. This game has the exclusive option listed but it does not work… I know this because in a dual monitor setup, in true full screen mode the mouse cursor should not move to the 2nd monitor without alt tabbing out of the game, but it does. There is no current remedy for this on an end user basis. I’ve tried multiple startup switches, registry changes etc that all should have ensured the game ran full screen mode, but nothing works. Which tells me its not implemented in the game properly or turned off… There is some kind of bug in unity when devs save or compile their latest builds that it won’t change the registry entries properly and thusly use the old saved settings… This is out of end users control… Perhaps the issue is more complex than that even, I don’t know.
So what I’ve read about this full screen mode, and this current overlay full screen mode the game uses, in windows 10, the way the api’s work with the gpu is when in this overlay full screen mode, the operating system renders everything. I.E steam app open gets rendered, browsers, desktop icons etc all get rendered underneath the game… This taxes 10xx or older cards severely, which is causing some extraneous heat for some of us.
I just wanted to point this out because heat will not only wreck hardware over extended periods of time, but the way gpu’s are triggered at certain heat thresholds to power cycle down Mhz to reduce heat, this all translates to poor performance which looks like an un-optimized game. When I don’t think the game is badly optimized per se, its really this overlayed game window and how windows controls rendered cycles of everything…
All I can ask, is for an option to run this game in full screen mode. Im comparing this game to another game of similar graphical theme and intensity, the other game has the advantage of running in full screen mode and the heat of that game is 25 C lower than this game which is hitting high 80s C on a card with only 90 c as a threshold… This coming from a guy who took an hour to pull the gpu out, clean it out and relapse silver paste to make sure things were running as optimally on my end as possible in conjunction with the capped 60hz setup…
If the devs cannot sort this out, may i suggest one of the biggest frame rate killers in games be allowed to be toggled right off… Shadows = 0 global shadows = 0
I would seriously consider re-doing all your lighting in this game to accommodate no shadows at all for those of us who like seamless game play. And as always, for those who want shadows on they can put them on… I do plan on upgrading my gpu from this rx 480, but I have been trying to order one since november 2020… Most of us know about these out of stock issues… and it doesn’t sound like its getting any better with announcements of semi-conductor shortages with the auto sector getting served first priority…