The Wasteland is a dangerous place.
The Wasteland is a dangerous place.
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl is notoriously demanding on older hardware, and your experience aligns with many others who have attempted to play it on systems like yours. The game was originally built for much more powerful PCs than the Q9550 and HD 4870 combination you're running.
Here’s a breakdown of why you’re experiencing issues and some potential solutions:
* **Graphics Settings:** As you’ve discovered, even the lowest settings will push your hardware to its limits. The game’s engine was not designed for modern resolutions or detail levels on older cards.
* **Shader Issues:** Stalker has significant shader problems that are exacerbated by older graphics drivers and hardware. These shaders cause extreme GPU load, leading to overheating and performance issues.
* **Memory Usage:** The game can be quite memory-intensive, especially with texture settings at anything above the absolute lowest.
It’s a hot card alright. A couple of things that will help. Take the side off your case if you don’t have adequate ventilation. Second, go into the CCC and under overdrive set the fan speed to manual and set it at 37-40%. It should run quiet enough so the noise won’t bother you and the card will stay cooler and at a more steady temperature. Without setting it manually the card waits til it hits 70c before the fan speed picks up and by then there’s too much heat to try and get rid of. I've been there.
Swifty, a hot card indeed. I usually leave the fan manually at 30%, and I have a HAF X case so the air flow is dang good, unfortunately I got my card a bit early on and didn't get a redesigned card with an egg cooler, it has the lame refernce design "box" cooler and fan. Having it set on auto-fan, CCC seems to keep its max temp at 90c and under, which XFX customer support has assured me even low 90's should not harm the card though it is slightly above the standard range. I have been playing Call of Pripyat on max settings and the temp stays around 87, though the game gets a bit skippy when i start running, but that could be ram or even HDD.
yeah vsync is not going to help ur temperatures. I have a card that ran wickedly hot until i built a new pc with better ventilation. It was getting around 80-90C at load and now it maxes at around 60....sounds like your case is pretty boss also. I bought a coolermaster sniper, which has a bit 2 much fanning for my needs.
Is your pc room at least at room temperature? crank dat AC up.
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yes everything is in fine condition. The focus of this though is more the fact that the game requires 100% of my GPU on minimum graphics and was wondering if anyone knew how to resolve this, the heat is just a by-product.
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the only thing that i can think of from pass experience is update the bios on the motherboard cause i had something similar with my pc and after the update, i had no problem with the games.