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Originally Posted by dcb
Actually, it was not the game that ruined your card, but the crappy Nvidia drivers. I have the same vidcard, GTX 260, but I'm controlling its heat with RivaTuner, which ramps up the fan speed with the GPU temperature. Without this external control, the fan would stay at 29% until the card gets past 100 degrees Celsius. Be warned that you will get the same behavior with any Nvidia card, including your GTX 580, because it's not the hardware itself (the card), but the drivers, which do not know how to adapt fan speed to the core temperature.
Just google for "nvidia fan control" and you'll find plenty of posts explaining both the issue and the solutions. And BTW, EVGA precision only monitors the temp, but does not increase the card fan speed. RivaTuner, OTOH, does both functions: it displays the temperature on screen and controls the speed of the fan.
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Noted.
I used to have EVGA Precision 1.9.1 or something like that (up until yesterday). However, their newest version allows you to customize a temperature/fan RPM graph, which is kind of neat. So basically you get to determine at what temperature you want the fan speed to increase and what speed you would like it to increase to.
I have also recently download Rivatuner. EVGA Precision uses part of Rivatuner's software for itself. It's basically a less sophisticated version of Rivatuner.
I think it was lack of knowledge of what my video card was up to that caused the damage.
That said, I still think SH5 is not a well optimized game. I have an extensive programming background, and when I see my GPU usage go to 100% and stay there with no fluctuation, that is an indicator that something is wrong.