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Posted by: CND AAA Beef
Decided to test out my PC's gaming performance a bit.
I gave the FEAR 2 and Supcom 2 demos a spin, and they run perfectly fine. Then I decided to give ME2 a shot.
Frame rates and quality are fine (or at least as good as possible on a 1440x900 VGA), but my CPU fan is running like a bat out of hell at a bit over 6000 rpm. GPU was chugging along nicely.
Temperature was ok, with the CPU at about 55C and the GPU at 50C. But when your desk is vibrating from the CPU fan...
I tried dialing back some of the quality settings, but it didn't do much. My guess is that the CPU is being forced to handle all the PhysX stuff, since my card is an HD6850.
My question, would an aftermarket heatsink and fan help keep the CPU cool without having to ramp up the RPMs? I don't think Mass Effect 2 uses PhysX.
You should be able to max the game out at 60 fps since Mass Effect 2 is not resource intensive.When I first launched it in Steam, it said "Configuring Physx" during the initial setup.
And I'm getting solid frame rates with no hiccups. Just trying to figure out why my CPU sounded like a jet turbine while walking down a hall in ME2 when it's running quite fine with 200 units on screen in Supcom2. I thought RTSs were supposed to tax the CPU more than RPGs.If you do thinks it's Physx, you can always turn it off. There should be an option somewhere in the game settings or some .ini file somewhere.