Performance issues Resolved!

[Gutfright]

I am not (as you will soon learn) very good with computers and I'm sure you are all way too clever to have this problem, but just in case......

I had serious issues running ED which developed right after I updated to 1.3. The game stuttered so much it was quite unplayable and I gave up thinking the game had out grown my 5 year old pc. (The connection of this problem to 1.3 turned out to be a coincidence).

To cut a long story short, my issue was heat. I checked the cpu temperature and it was 94 degrees. Thinking this was a tad hot, I read it should be closer to 60 and that when the cores get too hot, they slow down to protect themselves (good job or they would now be dead) - hence the poor performance.

I opened the PC up, cleaned all of the fans, cleaned out all the dust, cleaned the filter on the air intake that was 100% blocked with dust and put a bigger cpu heatsink/fan on for good measure.

My cpu cores are now about 45 degrees and ED runs brilliantly again at 60fps.

Happy days!

 

[Parmo]

You should be doing this every month.
Most PCs are unloved.
Ask any developer, like ED devs, when they last cleaned inside their PCs!

 

[Snowdog]

I had a similar issue a while back, but it was my vid card over heating. a gtx 560. What a pain in the butt I talked my leading commander (wife) into letting me upgrade. She told me to get the GTX980 and that solved all my problems (well many of them I have a great governing body (someday), if I could only talk her into over heating in the sleeping quarters, now that would be a real win.

 

[Thoris]

This may not only help performance, but also noise! My PC is notably quieter after cleaning it

 

[smiths121]

Hello OP,

Clearly not bad a cmputers - any idea how to get Windows 8.1 to tell me the CPU temp?
I know how to do this o LINUX - honest.

Simon

 

[CMDR Flaxton]

Hello OP,

Clearly not bad a cmputers - any idea how to get Windows 8.1 to tell me the CPU temp?
I know how to do this o LINUX - honest.

Simon

There are a few little programs which you can have running in the background. I use one called coretemp which sits in the tray and gives a realtime temp. I am overclocked, 8 core amd processor which is watercooled and never get a temperature over 34C with Elite running.

Temperature is always a good thing to check with pc problems. I try and have a clean up of the fans about every 2 months and that works well for me.

CMDR Flaxton

 

[Cmdr Asimov]

Hello OP,

Clearly not bad a cmputers - any idea how to get Windows 8.1 to tell me the CPU temp?
I know how to do this o LINUX - honest.

Simon

Search for and download "HWMonitor" it's a great little tool for keeping track of your systems heat and performance.

 

[Captain Fizz]

You should be doing this every month.

If you smoke in the room, every 2~3 months.
Normal room, PC near floor, every 4~5 months.
Normal room, PC over a foot off the ground, every 6~7 months.

In my experience

 

[Ozmodion]

i did this a couple weeks ago and made a massive difference, especially to Grid Autosport.

 

[Polared]

yep, always a good idea to de dust your rig once in a while, also if you're in a particularly dusty environment it's a good idea to get filters for the intake fan grills, i always get mine from DEMCiflex, makes a massive difference.

 

[Gray Lensman]

Search for and download "HWMonitor" it's a great little tool for keeping track of your systems heat and performance.

I 2nd this. I use it a lot.

 

[knowles2]

Cleaning my computer is probably something I should do more often.

 

[CMDR MAIN SEQUENCE]

I use HWiNFO together with HWInfoMonitor which is a Windows Sidebar Gadget that allows you to set thresholds etc. Thoroughly recommended.

 

[robbyp]

Cleaning goes for laptops as well - the last dell work one I had needed to be cleaned every month or so else otherwise the fans would run continously.

Take the back off and use compressed air to squirt out the dirt.