SWTOR Damaged My i7 2600K

i7 2600K here. Runs fine no issues. If the GPU gets hot it usually has two reasons: 1. overclock a GPU - does not give you more than 1-2 FPS anyways. Makes me laugh. 2. You override AA with external tools and use SuperSampling. The engine does not support it and the chip will melt through the PCB.

If used in MSAA usually fine, just Alderaan and Voss are taxing and hot since the leaves for whatever stupid reason throw their own shadows. It also reduces FPS signifcantly. In those areas I run blob shadows as workaround. But yeah the game is dangerous for hardware or can be. I think BW knows this and that is also the reason why they removed hires and AA originally. Check GPU temps in cutscenes. Wait for a dialog choice and let it sit there for a while monitoring your temps. Unbelievable. It's amateur BS if you ask me. I would have expected an AWEFUL lot more from BW.

P.S.: Although I agree to an extent I also live by the following: If I feel I need to overclock my system I know it's time to upgrade. But that's just me.

I've come to the conclusion that this game is literally dangerous to run on a gaming PC.

I know that can sound hard to believe for some, but let me explain.

To begin, here are my system specs:

Intel Core i7 2600K
Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Pro heatsink/fan
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 motherboard
16GB Mushkin Blackline 2133MHz DDR3
2 x EVGA GTX460 1GB in SLI
Crucial M4 128GB SATA3 SSD 6Gb/s
WD Raptor Enterprise 10K RPM SATA3 3Gb/s
Creative XFi Platinum
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Cooler Master HAF932 Gaming Tower
Cooler Master 850W 80Plus Certified PSU
etc.



So what's my problem?

I have, previously before playing SWTOR, been able to reliably overclock my processor to 4.5GHz with absolutely no stability issues whatsoever. My system was solid as a rock for at least six months prior, through many hours of maxed out and heavily tweaked Skyrim, through playing Battlefield 3, through RAGE, etc. My system was so stable I could leave it sitting in any one of those games, video cards also healthily overclocked, and not have a single worry.

, especially with VSync disabled, my system fans speeds would definitely shoot up, with GPU temps often approaching 80C. This is okay for short gameplay sessions, but definitely not okay for hours on end.


BioWare, thanks a lot. You suck.

I can confirm it's also happening on this PC.
CPU to 64C+ GPU temp is 88C.

Something has to be done, I'm worried about the life of my components with this.

Run circles around?

Didn't you see that I mentioned by turning off VSync I run in the 90's and 100's (FPS) indoors?

Anyway, the point isn't the performance I was getting. The point is that this game unnecessarily stresses system components and since it's an addicting and time-consuming game, it can lead to damage.

I'm well aware of the hazards of overclocking. I've been doing it for years and I chose my system components very carefully to accomodate as such.

My processor, for example, rarely goes over 35C when under full load in the games I mentioned.

mmos allways have more hardware hunger.

its considerably more stressing to diplay 50 mmo chars at the same time than runnign a bf3 with an all nifty dx 11 tesselation

tbh comparing swtor to bf3 in terms of performance is ridiculous

thats no overheating

the gpu average temp on full load is 90, cpu on full load can go up to 75 or 80

a gpu can go to 110 and more without shutdown, cpu 90 and more without shutdown

i personaly know from repairing cpus and gpus by baking them in the oven at 190 degrees that temperatures below 200 do never ever damage architecture

usualy voltage peaks or too high voltage is what breaks them

Don't whiteknight; compare it to the other MMOs and we still see SWTOR causes heating issues that they don't have. It's the inefficient buggy engine and subsequent buggy coding - our rigs could be used much better than this for same visuals.

Please read up before making these claims. Even a cursory Google search will tell you that >64C for an AMD FX-8120 is the "danger zone". Temp programs also come with that figure pre-programmed in them, for goodness sake.

As for the GPU? 90 is pretty damn high compared to how it runs on any other game. It's pretty high stress imo.