Extreme use of computer resources and temperatures

It's a long one. But it comes with pictures! This is a bug report and nothing more.

Since installment last weekend session, Ashes has been eating my computer alive. I'm above recommended specs
CPU - Intel Core i7 -9700K @3.60GHz (8 core)
RAM - (2) G.Skill F4-3200C16-16DTZKW (Speed 3200, 32GB)
GPU - Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
MB - Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO

The problems I'm having is that I can barely run this game at all. CPU and RAM are always at 100%, and the game doesn't even chug, I get several seconds of frozen frames constantly. During all this, it's trying its best to melt the CPU, with almost all cores constantly 88-96°C and often peaking to 100°.

Yesterday it was only ravaging the CPU and temperatures were the highest I've seen )(#1)(#2)

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Today is when it started using the RAM 100% for several seconds, even half minutes. It would do this seemingly at random, every instance different. I also realized the yesterday I had a fair amount of programs open, so today I only had HWMonitor (for temperatures), Task Manager for resources (CPU and RAM loads), and Photoshop (to capture screenshots, and to provide resource use differences)(#3)

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All in-game settings are at the lowest possible(#4)while graphic-intense games like Final Fantasy XIV can be played at max settings and rarely push temps up to 90 nor does it take over the CPU or RAM 100%(#5)

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I realize this is alpha and not everything runs super smooth. This is a bug report and nothing more.

Though I have the feeling someone’s going to look at my graphics settings and have a 1 button fix.

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Uncommon Sense

I think you're CPU cooler or thermal paste needs an inspection.
IDK maybe the game just hates your PC setup...?

I have a an RX6800 doing 4k at 70c* 98%
and a 7500F also at 70c* doing about 50% with a budget Peerless Assassin 120SE air cooler..

Kreed

I have simular computer setup you do and I run temptures around 52 C - 60C with an air cooled system for both CPU and Graphic card on the high settings.

I agree with the above comment.
It looks like your CPU cooling system is the issue and may require redoing the paste or reseating the cooling unit.

Do you have a water cooling system or an air cooling system?

If its water - You will need to inspect the coolent levels or possibly clean out and put in fresh. A lot of people don't understand the maintance they require and miss the monitoring of this type of cooling. It has become a novelty that is starting to show its long term flaws.

If its an Air system redoing the paste and clean out the fan and radiator fins , inspect to make sure the fan is running properly.

* Side note I ditched my water cooling and replaced it with an air system because the water cooling unit just wasnt doing the job propely.

Uncommon Sense

Kreed wrote: »

* Side note I ditched my water cooling and replaced it with an air system because the water cooling unit just wasnt doing the job propely.

I've had 4 liang D5 pumps die on me in an old custom loop. Never used an AIO cooler, pumps are not as silent as you think and when the fail no more cooling.

With air cooling if the fan dies the cooler still kinda works and a new fan is easy and cheap to replace...

I might go custom again only because I had my tubing exit the PC, go through the floor into the basement where the 480 radiator would dissipate system heat externally...All this in attempt to keep my room cooler in summer.

Otherwise air cooling and custom fan curves are just so much easier and more reliable...

nanfoodle

I have 64gb of 3200 ram and I have used 100% my ram. It's crashed the game when I opened a YouTube video and went to blue screen telling me I was out of ram lol

Uncommon Sense

that's quite the memory leak.

Aszkalon

Uncommon Sense wrote: »

I have a an RX6800 doing 4k at 70c* 98%

I have now exactly the same since awhile, but only like 48° Celsius. Okay, i have two more additionally build-in ventilators in my Computer ... ...

The last time i did such a jump and got one of the nicest Graphic Cards of current time available was at the likes of the end of 2012.

what a time it has been since then.

Uncommon Sense

My fan curves are adjusted for silence and I live in Australia where summer ambient temps can go over 35*c

as long as you PC isn't capped at 90*c all the time any temperature below that is fine for the most part.

If you Idle temps are over 50*c I'd also be somewhat concerned...

Sevyn

My system is modular and air cooled, and all fans, including those of the heatsink (Be Quiet!) have been recently cleaned and checked. After my first weekend of Ashes (Nov 8), I have subsequently moved my temp cap from 90 to 100, which it still hits points (#1) and (#2)) I included point (#5) to show that this overheating and resource hogging is an incident (so far) unique to Ashes. I was showing that I could run Final Fantasy 14 at max settings in a densely populated area and not encounter anywhere near the numbers I get when playing Ashes.
I recognize Alphas exist to see how the 8 billion combinations of computer builds run the program. Thus emerges optimization. But optimization relies on the data collected in the game, as well as bug reports, which this is, I just couldn't properly screenshot what was happening with the /bug tool in game. It was also to see if others were experiencing this, as well as following suggestions to post here after posting this in the Ashes Discord.
I will run multiple benchmarks (UserBenchmark, PCMark, 3dMark), as well as a few taxing games/programs, next time I'm on the PC to provide more data.

KamikazeTMX

This is the only alpha at the moment and game in general that makes of my pc a vulcano... Star citizen runs fine, this 1 not. even did fullscreen and then go 1080P but for some reason i couldnt set the fps because it was grayed out. i wanna to set 60... but no. all options on low and nothing. pc gets volcano again i restart game then poof again.. seems some of the graphics options you use dont wanna stick.. but anyways i cant play the game. so i payed almost 90 euro's to let my pc get into a volcano mode...

KamikazeTMX

Its super weird that this is still going on when i see all the reports.. it seems they can't handle the game on a wide range...

Calicobard

Want to let people know I self solved the ingame screen freezing bug.. at least for me. I updated to the latest Nvidia drivers 581.29 and I installed process lasso (the pro paid for version that I own) and used that to stabilize how AOC used system resources and my constant screen freezes and stutter stopped.

This also seems to solve the game patcher making my computer unusable while updating. Your results may vary but this fix worked wonders for me. Hope this helps you too.

One caveat to using process lasso. This program will interfere with windows update. This program if running while windows updates will make the update take 3-5X longer to process and complete. So disable this program while updating your windows software.

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