I have BG3 and I’ve played through a handful of times…I can’t bring myself to finish. I keep going back. I recently bought Divinity. I’ll add the rest to my list. =)
Divinity shows you why Wizards of the Coast went with Larian. At the time I played it popped as a game that had a lot of developer love, after seeing a lot of decline within the industry.
Yeah! 1000%. That sounds like a blast. Now I have motivation to work on a computer that can handle it. A lot of my little sim games aren’t very taxing. BG3 makes it overheat.
You can undervolt and TDP limit CPUs and GPUs to get that!
On GPUs, you can often get 90% of the FPS for like 60% of the power consumption, since AMD/Nvidia push clocks so hard. Download MSI afterburner, run its “OC curve” utility for an easy but optimal and safe undervolt, and then cap the max power at like 75% of whatever it normally is. Or cap the max clocks, which is what I usually do.
Unhide the “Processor Performance Boost Mode”, and set it to enabled or disabled (instead of the default aggressive).
Let me emphasize that this is safe, and not an overclock.
Basically all modern CPUs and GPUs overclock themselves, boosting higher and higher until they operate at like 80C+ steady state. It’s kinda stupid. Hence, all these tweaks do is get them to stop boosting so hard, so they run at efficient clocks that don’t overheat your machine.
Cool! reply/PM or whatever if you have questions, possibly multiple times since Lemmy sometimes misses notifications, heh.
And I don’t mean to shoot down the possibility of new parts! This is just a good workaround for overheating, far beyond what FPS limiting will net you. And it’s honestly a good thing to do on any hardware you may have, as it saves power and extends its life.
Sounds like it’s RPG time. Baldurs Gate 3. The original dragon age. ME trilogy. Dishonored 1 & 2. Fallout 3 or 4. Divinity original sin. Greedfall.
I have BG3 and I’ve played through a handful of times…I can’t bring myself to finish. I keep going back. I recently bought Divinity. I’ll add the rest to my list. =)
Divinity shows you why Wizards of the Coast went with Larian. At the time I played it popped as a game that had a lot of developer love, after seeing a lot of decline within the industry.
I hope you mean Divinity Original Sin. There rid a Divinity and it’s made by Larian too, bit old though xD
Idk about Divinity. I was talking Original Sin, 1 & 2.
I have the same habit, but recently discovered it’s apparently a neurodivergence symptom, heh.
Co-op with friends made me finish BG3 though.
Maybe I should try the co-op one day then…good idea
It’s great! Combat goes faster with players making moves in parallel (where possible).
Impulse offer: I’ve been pondering replaying BG3, or at least trying it out. If you want a random Lemmy stranger to help finish a save with, I’m down.
Yeah! 1000%. That sounds like a blast. Now I have motivation to work on a computer that can handle it. A lot of my little sim games aren’t very taxing. BG3 makes it overheat.
You can undervolt and TDP limit CPUs and GPUs to get that!
On GPUs, you can often get 90% of the FPS for like 60% of the power consumption, since AMD/Nvidia push clocks so hard. Download MSI afterburner, run its “OC curve” utility for an easy but optimal and safe undervolt, and then cap the max power at like 75% of whatever it normally is. Or cap the max clocks, which is what I usually do.
CPU depends more on which one you have.
But most games don’t need their max clocks. So one easy thing to do is download this little utility: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/windows-power-plan-settings-explorer-utility.416058/
Unhide the “Processor Performance Boost Mode”, and set it to enabled or disabled (instead of the default aggressive).
Let me emphasize that this is safe, and not an overclock.
Basically all modern CPUs and GPUs overclock themselves, boosting higher and higher until they operate at like 80C+ steady state. It’s kinda stupid. Hence, all these tweaks do is get them to stop boosting so hard, so they run at efficient clocks that don’t overheat your machine.
Alright. So I’m going to give this a shot tomorrow when I get home, after reading it a couple more times and mentally preparing.
Thing is with this computer is that I’ve had it since before Covid. I was already looking at parts anyway. It’s a hoopty.
Cool! reply/PM or whatever if you have questions, possibly multiple times since Lemmy sometimes misses notifications, heh.
And I don’t mean to shoot down the possibility of new parts! This is just a good workaround for overheating, far beyond what FPS limiting will net you. And it’s honestly a good thing to do on any hardware you may have, as it saves power and extends its life.
I highly recommend Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, too. If you really want a RPG to play
This was also good.