on toca race driver 3

[Grumpy]

@leleware

installed the reloaded version

Do you actually own an original 'purchased' disc of this game?

[leleware]

yes i have.. but is the same... now i've cleaned all again and i'm trying to install the original one and then the sequence of no-dvd, crack and patch from reloaded. i'll let you know asap if it works... but by now i've a bad sensation about it. thx everybody

[leleware]

ok, no way to make it work.. i give up...

[leleware]

ok i did it... the problem was my vga, the sapphire radeon x850.. it reports 60c° on full load, but with an external sensor i've a 99c° !!! so i've downclocked it a little, disabled the vpu warning and setted the details level of the game to medium. during this week i'll buy a good fan for the vga. thank you all. bye

[Joe Forster/STA]

Such overclocking and temperature problems could be added to the FAQ in the general gaming solutions entry, hmmm?

[leleware]

i hope so, but mine is not an overclocking.. i used the default frequencies and in stand bythe real temperature was 77c°, really high.. under heavy load over 100c°.. now i have to understand if it's normal ore there's some kind of problem... we'll see. bye

[DABhand]

Make sure if you have a back case fan, that is blowing out and not in, as it will be circulating the PSU's hot air back into the case.

[leleware]

i have 3 fans 12", 2 back for extraction and 1 up for in.. but i also have 4 hdd sata 250 gb hot like hell.. i've noticed that also a friend of mine had the same problems with the radeon 850xt.. probably i'll change it for a 1950 xt.. by now i'm playing at 800x600 with medium details and the temperature is around 85c°..

[dede]

Originally Posted by leleware

i have 3 fans 12", 2 back for extraction and 1 up for in.. but i also have 4 hdd sata 250 gb hot like hell.. i've noticed that also a friend of mine had the same problems with the radeon 850xt.. probably i'll change it for a 1950 xt.. by now i'm playing at 800x600 with medium details and the temperature is around 85c°..

Buy ZALMAN Complet video, box and processor cooler, Already i say, so we "DABhand" Make sure if you have a back case fan, that is blowing out and not in.

Or use your computer for gaming in the the cellar (la cave) its cooller as in living room or little chambre with hot tv and some sources of heading!

GPU (graphic process unit) over 60° C is to high can not run proper impossible and will dispatch the temperature to all other components.

[leleware]

well, in this moment, with only the browser open and the vga downclocked at 440mhz(was 520) for the gpu and 451 mhz(was 540) for the memory, the ati control panel shows 73c°... and my p4 560 at 3.6ghz with silenttower just 61c°... ok i'm thinking seriously about a Zalman.....

[Joe Forster/STA]

Both are way too much! (When XviD-ripping DVD's with the GordianKnot, at 62 degrees Celsius of CPU temperature, the conversion crashes; that's the maximum my CPU, an Athlon XP 3200+, can bear with.)

[leleware]

my cpu is 2 yeras old and still run around 60, sometimes 70c° under hard gaming.. about the vga i always had heat problems with ati... but for me this is not he right financial moment to buy a good case, some good fans, a great vga etc. etc. now i've removed the vga fan and put some silver thermal on the chip... go a little better, 52 with no load, 68 under heavy load...

[Joe Forster/STA]

Hmmm, must be the difference between how close the CPU thermometers are to the CPU on different motherboards. Or, perhaps, CPU thermometers are already built inside modern CPU's...? Or, perhaps, Intel CPU's can cope with 10 degrees more?