SH5 damaged my video card.

[whiplash2002b]

Originally Posted by Wilcke

Agreed, my new Nvidia 470 will make the fan run up to 100%. I use EVGA Precision to setup a fan speed related to temperature rise at about 60C it ramps up to 100%. A few days ago while running SH5 sans the EVGA Precision I did get some artifacts on one screen. I did an Exit, started up EVGA Precision note GPU at 80C, the fan ramped up to 100% and the temps started down to about 45C at idle.

On the graph SH5 utilizes about 100% of GPU. Nice to see these cards starting to shoulder the workload! Graphically with TDW's mods SH5 is gorgeous and runs smooth as silk.

I am putting an after market heat sink and three large fan setup on my EVGA 470, I am tired of the loud fan noise and this will bring the temps down by about 10C.

I do recommend using what sober recommended farther down in this thread: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=2871 I set mine to 27 FPS and it did reduce the GPU load significantly. Most people tell you that 30 FPS is what the human eye detects, but 35 mm movies actually run at 24.7 or something like that. So, you can save yourself some GPU processing time with this small download. Plus it's made by Kegety... he's been making awesome stuff for sim games for a long time.