Overheating with medieval 2

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AmazingKreskin

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I have a 6600gt thats about 1 1/2 years old, and it seems to overheat while playing medieval 2: total war. By overheat I mean ~103c. It doesn't overheat with anything else. in fact, it never goes above 72c except when playing medieval 2. Is this game really that hard on a system, or is there something wrong with my video card?
 
I have a Radeon 9800Pro. A few weeks ago, the fan went out and so I was having problems with it overheating in the form of screen freezes and weird images. So I replaced the fan, and things were working fine again,

But earlier today when I was playing Medieval, the same weird freezing occured, which I'm assuming means overheating again.

So I'm not sure. Does the game do this when your card overheats? (If not then I'll know it's something else).
 
one thing for sure is that the 'stock' TIM is not that great. you could try removing the HS, getting rid of the stock TIM, and using Arctic Sil 5. of course, this would void your warranty.
i'm assuming no big dust bunnies in the case? :eek:
 
kevdog said:
one thing for sure is that the 'stock' TIM is not that great. you could try removing the HS, getting rid of the stock TIM, and using Arctic Sil 5. of course, this would void your warranty.
i'm assuming no big dust bunnies in the case? :eek:
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I dont want to void the warranty just yet, and I clean everything on a regular basis. Not just with air, but also a jewelers screwdriver to make sure the heatsinks are totally clean. I guess it's just the game then?
 
Two questions. 1)Whats your system configuration? 2) What other modern games do you play besides M2TW? You said it doest overheat in other games but if your other games are old then M2TW may be too much for your current card. M2TW isnt considered a 3D graphic hog game but older cards will have problems if they are too old. M2TW does have better graphics than its predecessors.
 
I've got A64 3200, KV2 extreme, 1GB corsair ddr333, 6600gt, running xp sp2. I've also got a Audigy 2 that died today.So now I'm gonna have to make due with on-board sound...:(
Anyway, I play company of heroes, Battle for middle earth, oblivion, fear, godfather, black and white 2 and battlefield 2.

All those games show no sign of overheating. No anomalies at all. Of course, I've only recently started checking temps, so maybe I should check it after 20 minutes of something like company of heroes.
 
Your right skott. These new games are too dope for my graphics card. I'm getting high temps in all these new games. I guess I'm gonna have to look into cooling options.
 
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