Still, what is the problem here? When converting videos, I’ve got about 80°C on my CPU, but it will just slow down a little and let the fan catch up. Might invest in a bigger fan here, but I never had any heat issues besides the slower CPU when it reaches its heat limit. And I’m using the boxed fan which isn’t the best either.
Does the UI crash? Do you have any stability issues? Does your PC overheat and switch off?
You can’t just judge a “heavier” game by what you see in the UI. Tomb Raider won’t calculate a dynamic campaign in the background. So what’s the basic problem with the increased temperature?
There’s a basic rule that’s just physics after all: Calculations need power to switch the “transistor’s state” (basically). Power will need some small amount of current (P= UI) which will induce heat due to the resistance on the conductor (P=I²R). More calculations -> more power needed -> more heat induced. Until you get more efficient transistors on your CPU, that’s it. No software thing will change that.
If it is getting warmer, it will have more calculations on the CPU. No matter how fancy that stuff looks like, tomb raider will do less calculations than BMS (although the b**bs do look better sometimes). Otherwise, there would be more heat.
I could run tomb raider on my old rig just fine, but had to upgrade it for BMS. That’s how it is and it won’t change. BMS is very demanding. And it will always do more calculations on the CPU than tomb raider.
But you will have the same problems with video converting or other CPU intensive applications. Once the CPU reaches its limit, it won’t get any faster. You either need to slow down or get the heat away.
Please, what is the basic problem here- are you unable to run BMS? Then please post your systems specs.
Mine are as followed:
AMD X4 760K CPU
8Gb DDR3 RAM (Patriot 1600)
Samsung 840 evo SSD (plus a bunch of HDD’s which won’t matter, bought an SSD for falcon)
AMD Radeon HD6570 with 1Gb (pretty old, slightly overclocked, but shaders suck- will have to upgrade it with 4.33)
OS is Win7 64bit
It does run fine, shaders are on, but all sub-options are unchecked so I just get the weather/ light effects, but no fancy stuff. Which is due to the GPU which is pretty old. And yes, I can even record videos on-the-fly in a campaign.
Things like “oh, that looks better and doesn’t have so much calculations but BMS looks sh*tty in the UI but heats up things so much” won’t get you any help. Give us at least some facts to start with.