Need to throttle-back GPU during editing??

[RichyV]

Hi,

anyone come across this before & therefore have a solution..?

I have played/edited scenarios (without probs) before but never tried building a new route (I doubt whether I'll get very far, but that's another story... ).
Last night I try to lay a few tracks and see how easy/difficult it is - but as soon as I enter the 'default' route to start from scratch my frame-rates climb to 400+ FPS (!!) and the GPU temp rises alarmingly to 75 C with a 100% fan-speed - game keeps running and I can work fine but the work that the GPU is doing is quite alarming. I have an nVidia 260GTX and I've never seen this behaviour before.

Anyone have any ideas how I can throttle it back?

TIA.

[CaptScarlet]

Yes, in the graphics drivers turn vertical sync to "force on" for railworksproc.exe

John

[RichyV]

Yes, in the graphics drivers turn vertical sync to "force on "

John

Aha - yes of course, stupidly didn't think of that

Thanks very much - I'll try it tonight...

[Wikkus]

GPU temp rises alarmingly to 75 C with a 100% fan-speed - game keeps running and I can work fine but the work that the GPU is doing is quite alarming. I have an nVidia 260GTX and I've never seen this behaviour before.

Hi, Richy. I see you've found a fix, but am curious; is this stock cooling? If so, what sort of temps do you normally see?

Interested because I'm thinking about upgrading to a couple of 260s...

Rik.

[styckx]

My question is, if he didn't have force Vsync on, how was he NOT seeing tearing in the actual game itself? The game is unplayable on any system that can easily go more FPS then their monitors refresh rate (yes even LCD's). I can get 80-120fps if I turn it off, and obviously it looks terrible moving along.

[gnash]

GPU temp rises alarmingly to 75 C with a 100% fan-speed - game keeps running and I can work fine but the work that the GPU is doing is quite alarming. I have an nVidia 260GTX and I've never seen this behaviour before.

Hi, Richy. I see you've found a fix, but am curious; is this stock cooling? If so, what sort of temps do you normally see?

Interested because I'm thinking about upgrading to a couple of 260s...

Rik.

Cooling is'nt the problem , same thing happens on water or dice on my ATI X2's , the cores spike to 99% usage and stay there ( GPU-Z and Everest ) , hence the increase in temps and fan . If I could have found a way to hook my up Kayl SS to the card I'd have tried that

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[RichyV]

GPU temp rises alarmingly to 75 C with a 100% fan-speed - game keeps running and I can work fine but the work that the GPU is doing is quite alarming. I have an nVidia 260GTX and I've never seen this behaviour before.

Hi, Richy. I see you've found a fix, but am curious; is this stock cooling? If so, what sort of temps do you normally see?

Interested because I'm thinking about upgrading to a couple of 260s...

Rik.

Hi Rik,

normally see ~65-69 C under load after some time of playing and nowhere near 100% fan-speed, so as this was 75 C & 100% within seconds of loading-up I was a bit concerned, and yes, the V-sync worked perfectly to correct this )

Yes, stock cooler and pre-overclocked card (sorry at work @ the mo' & can't remember exact model - but I can let you know later if needs-be...), very good for the money, I'd say

[RichyV]

My question is, if he didn't have force Vsync on, how was he NOT seeing tearing in the actual game itself? The game is unplayable on any system that can easily go more FPS then their monitors refresh rate (yes even LCD's). I can get 80-120fps if I turn it off, and obviously it looks terrible moving along.

Not for me really, only 'tearing' I encountered before v-sync enabled was in a close-up of loco/stock passing the camera when I use the '8' option to view from outside the train. No tearing whilst moving along with it that I could perceive...

[RichyV]

GPU temp rises alarmingly to 75 C with a 100% fan-speed - game keeps running and I can work fine but the work that the GPU is doing is quite alarming. I have an nVidia 260GTX and I've never seen this behaviour before.

Hi, Richy. I see you've found a fix, but am curious; is this stock cooling? If so, what sort of temps do you normally see?

Interested because I'm thinking about upgrading to a couple of 260s...

Rik.

Hi Rik,

normally see ~65-69 C under load after some time of playing and nowhere near 100% fan-speed, so as this was 75 C & 100% within seconds of loading-up I was a bit concerned, and yes, the V-sync worked perfectly to correct this )

Yes, stock cooler and pre-overclocked card (sorry at work @ the mo' & can't remember exact model - but I can let you know later if needs-be...), very good for the money, I'd say

OK - had a look back at my 'Order History' and found out that it's a 'Gainward GeForce GTX260 "Golden Sample" 896MB'

HTH.

[Wikkus]

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HTH.

Absolutely, nice one, thanks.

Rik.

[zm4em]

Absolutly Golden tip!!

So quiet now.

Thanks

Erik Antwerp Belgium