Intense video card usage

[nibel]

While I'm in some specific areas, my video card overheats A LOT, and most of time, end crashing the entire system, forcing me to reset the PC. Granted, I live on Brazil, and at this time of the year the ambient temperature raises a bit, so I can notice it more often.

My Vcard is a NVidia GeForce 9800 GTX. I play on the "High" definition settings, on DirectX 9. Some places i noticed my crash to be more common includes:

-Explorer zones: Three Barrel Cove, Sands of Menechtarum, Gianthold, Orchard of the Macabre, Vale of Twilight, and all 4 Rever's Refuge explorer zones.
-Quests: A Small Problem, and Redwillow's Ruins.
-City areas: Zawabi's Refuge.

Its like a charm: enter one of those areas, and in 10 minutes the screen goes all light browish, and the PC stops shortly after.

There is something i can do to prevent this thing, that do NOT include "buy a better cooler" (I'm working on it by now)? Changing the def settings to medium or low didn't changed anything.

[Mobeius]

I been having this problem on my laptop.. only this game makes my laptop heat up this badly...

I have an ATI Radeon HD3200

[Lundivar]

This issue has been going on for years, see my (and others) old posts regarding this subject in this forum. Turbine have never done anything about it.

The long & short of it is, try limiting your FPS to 30 or 60 (depending on your video card performance). That should stop your video card from overheating. You can find this option under the "Troubleshoot" menu.

You can also try to turn V-Sync on with triple buffering.

I've had this issue with both nvidia & ati cards, so brand & drivers do not matter. Well ventilated cases help cover the issue somewhat, but it's still there.

L.

[nibel]

Limiting the FPS worked. Thanks for the help.