high cpu temp
Hello I have been having the issue were my CPU temp is around 83 c and usage is around 95-100%. I am running a 7800x3D plus i have allocated 8 gigs of ram. I did read in a different post that chunky might not help at all but even with out it it still runs my cpu temp and usage high. I believe my cpu should be able to handle DH but if im wrong maybe that's why it run high. any help with this issue would help.
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/chunky
Using Chunky to pregenerate for DH is not recommended for several reasons. The first one is the swiss cheese that might show up when using chunky while DH is installed. The second reason is that it's pointless, as DH has a build in pregenerator that is better integrated than chunky:
- It saves space by only storing LODs, not normal chunks
- It is faster to use DH's pregenerator to generate the LODs than first using chunky to generate the normal chunks, and then using DH to convert the normal chunks to LODs
- It is part of DH, and therefore always/only called when DH needs it
- Chunky calculates it's radius in blocks, confusing the user if they are not aware of this
Distant Horizons' built-in LOD pregenerator is enabled by default, and can be sped up or slowed down by changing the
Cpu Load in DH's settings, or disabled by turning off Distant Generation.
If you want to pregenerate both LODs and normal chunks, set the Distance Generator Mode to Internal Server under Advanced, World Generator. This will of course take up quite a lot more storage space. Make sure you have C2ME installed if you want to use Internal Server, as the generation speed will be crap if you don't.
Note, this also applied to other similar pregeneration mods.
by default the cpu load preset is balanced which means 50% of the cpu threads
so that plus everything else in the game will result in high cpu load and thus high power usage and this high waste heat
so ya know
put chunky aside because it's not recommended with dh and try the low impact preset
got it let me try that
at balanced it is plenty fast enough for me during regular gameplay, and i have an i5-9400f (6c6t)
so your cpu at low impact should be way faster than mine on low impact
you can also fine tune it
in advanced settings you can set a specific number of threads
there's also a runtime % setting which the load presets don't touch, but i don't think that one would be good to mess with
the load presets are dynamic
which means the different load presets will exert roughly the same load on a 16 core cpu as they would on like, a 6 core cpu
ohh got you
with low preset i have temp of 70 and usage of 37
btw what version of dh are you on? 2.3.2 fixed some performance issues 2.3.0 had
thats good to hear
it's in the patch notes yeah
also
the nightly build has a fix for an issue when playing in a server that doesn't have DH
that causes LODs to not update in detail level, particularly after teleporting around
just fyi
is there a good number of threads to use?
im at 2 right now
i think your cpu can afford to spare more
try 4
i know 3 does it fairly well for me
and your threads are way better than mine
so it should be good
according to my calculations™️
:worksonmymachine:
okay sitting at 40-50 usage and temps dropped
sounds fine
do you happened to maybe know why maybe on balanced it just spikes?
could it be the other mods i have?
because on balanced it's gonna be using 50% of the threads which is a lot more than 4
highly unlikely to be the other mods
but more mods will likely mean more cpu usage depending on the scenario but we can disregard it if we consider a brand new world where you let the game sit for a minute or so to load everything and be quiet
on balanced it will be giving itself 8 out of your 16 threads
btw capping the framerate to the lowest number you're happy with will help quite a bit
ohh okay thanks for the info im still getting used to using mods
right now im getting like 140 fps but i can lower that maybe like 80
what's your monitor's refresh rate? if it's 60hz just cat it to 60 fps and it will feel as smooth as it is rn and will give both the game and DH A LOT more time do to their stuff
the refresh rate is 140
yeah thats' the problem with high refresh rates and modded minecraft lol
but yeah if you're happy with 80fps cap it to that, it will be smoother, cpu will be cooler and DH will have more time to do its thing
guh, can't wait to get a zen4 ryzen, i'll be able to do so much crap
Got you and what is the main task of upping the cpu usage like balanced to I paid for the whole cpu ? I believe it so you can generate more of the world if your like flying but if your just running around does that setting even matter?
What are you planing on getting ?
DH's jobs will be faster
and that is not just distant terrain generation
it's also LOD updates, and so on
not sure, rn i can't even afford high quality mayonnaise, by the time i have the money to buy recent hardware things will have changed
but i if i had money rn i'd try to find the cheapest zen4 ryzen 7
because i want zen 4's instruction sets, and i want 8c16t
so probably a ryzen 7 7700
for gpu idk
Got you makes sense
I get you plus the market right now sucks
My friend is trying to get a pc but parts right now are really expensive
Is it worth it to run balanced at high cpu usage and temp
Like around 80-95% usage and 75-83c temp
can't say for sure
as long as it doesn't reach 100% usage at the target fps and doesn't go above 85c i'd be fine with it
but like i said, with 3 of my threads dh is fast enough for regular gameplay, as long as you let it pregenerate a bit before starting to wander around, and your threads are way better than mine, so, 4 threads for instance, which might be exactly the low impact preset for you, should be plenty
by pregenerate i mean, setting it to i paid for the whole cpu, limiting the fps to 10, and then letting the game sit and just generate a ton of lods while you alt tab to watch youtube for some minutes or go do smth else idk
also, fun fact, pretty much everyone that asked about high cpu temperatures here were really high end cpu users like you, and i think i know why
Got you
That makes sense I was just thinking how I could pre generate
Really lol that’s interesting
I was just confused cuz my friend also runs DH and he has a more budget build but runs everything at balance and never mentioned having high temps or cpu usage
yeah, these cpus at full usage use a lot of power, but because they are so powerful it is uncommon for them to go up in usage and thus power draw/temperature
so they remain mostly quiet
they likely have something that doesn't eat a lot of power
for example my 1050ti and i5-9400f usually never go above 70c, or 75c in the hottest of summer days
*on full load
Ohh that does clear a lot up for me
Crazy to see 70-75c on hot summer days at full load
it uses little power tho
too bad i can't overclock
lots of power and thermal room for it
do you know what LOD chunk render distance radius does exactly? like would it be okay to increase it?
true that
it means how much LOD distance it will render, and also generate to
and yeah it's okay to increase it because DH's lods are very lightweight and dont increase in performance hit exponentially like vanilla rendering
it will mean DH will take exponentially longer to stop generating distant terrain
but if you can easily sustain it, it will be np
got it what number do you usually set it at? or do you keep default
my game runs decent enough for my (very low) standards at balanced, but this won't mean anything to you because your threads are better than mine, and the cpu load presets are also relative
oh wait
you're talking about the lod distance not the cpu preset whoops
well, i usually set it between 256 and 300
sometimes 400
ohh alright
well i think that pretty much solves my problem thanks so much for the help @Rammy with this i was going crazy but now everything makes much more sense.
aye
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