BeamNG running hot on GPU even on low settings?

I'm wondering if I should be concerned about this or not.

I started off playing Beam on the settings it installed with, but I kept getting notifications that my GPU temperature was exceeding 81 degrees, so I turned the settings way down, selecting "Low" from the drop-down in the graphics setting menu. But I still keep getting the notifications; even on really simple maps (like Bonneville Salt Flats) the GPU temperature will slowly creep up, never mind anything with foliage or lots of buildings.

My specs are:

CPU: i7-7700 @3.60 GHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB
RAM: 16GB
OS: Win10

And here's a screenshot of my graphics settings:



(not sure if that link is working properly, since it just comes up as a useless thumbnail for me)

I've been told this isn't an especially weak set-up, so I'm at a loss to explain why Beam would be heating up my GPU even on Low settings.

 

Try with vsync set to ON, that reduces workload on GPU.

Then check that your GPU fans are actually spinning and that your computer case is not getting very hot.

 

Also the fan curve on the gpu might be very 'lazy' it might wait until the card gets very warm until it starts the fans. and ramps them up, it used to be 50c passive, some cards are now 60c passive, and thus there isn't as much room for fan ramping up (temperature wise).. check your fan RPM (and if you want you can increase it with MSi afterburner)

v-sync will help definetly

 

Turning on Vsync doesn't seem to have made any difference. This is rather worrying; I don't want to end up cooking my GPU.

 

It should if there is any cooling on your GPU, have you checked fans are running and computer case is not hot sauna from inside?

Either GPU cooler has bad contact to chip or fans are not spinning, it would need super small case to run that hot even with vsync on, at least if you have 60hz monitor and if you have 144Hz gaming monitor or something like that, in BeamNG it is best to run at 60Hz mode as faster refreshrate needs huge amount of GPU as well as CPU power.

If running at 60fps or less is not making your GPU run cooler, then there must be cooling issue or some other fault.

 

I'm having this experience as well since the 0.16 update. I'm running BeamNG.drive in a Bootcamp on a fully upgraded 2019 MacBook Pro (which ran the game beautifully on high settings before the update and kept pretty cool for the hardware, around 60 degrees Celcius) and last night my first test of the eSBR saw my GPU diode temp skyrocket to nearly 90 degrees Celcius. I had to quickly reboot into macOS to manage my fan speed and cool the machine down and haven't had the balls to play again since. I know my system is kinda unique and not the best to run the game, but my point is that something is definitely not right since the update.

 

isn't the default nvidia throttling number something babbyish like 82c? beamng is one of the most unassumingly graphically intensive games you'll get. spin up those fans boyo. nvidia's default settings will never let harm come to your card though, unless it catches on fire.

 

BeamNG is like running 3Dmark's combined benchmark, but many hours instead of a minute, I'm running custom fan curve on my GPU, it gets bit noisy around 60C, but is needed to keep that heavy load going for hours.

 

Setting a more aggressive fan curve using MSI Afterburner seems to have done the trick. It seems daft for the factory settings to allow the card to get that hot, mind you.

 

There has been cases where GPU manufacture has set too low curve on purpose, to make noisy fans appear as quiet and shorten lifespan of GPU to sell more, it's not so nice from them.

 

i mean, for amd, the throttling temp is set at 94c, and for CPUs, it's typically around 100c

le high temps r bad is such a meme, especially when it's actually temperature changes that cause damage to parts through expansion/contraction

let your idle be high and never turn anything off

 

Make sure your GPU isn't clogged with dust, if it is blow it out carefully with a compressor while keeping the fans from spinning because of the compressed error because it can generate enough power to cause damage