Kerbal Space Program

Huh, this is an odd one. Is there any information that you could provide to help us with this? (Relevant logs, etc.) I don't imagine that the Player log has anything useful in it, however.

Have you tried turning down settings to see if that has any noticeable effect?

I changed all the settings down to the lowest, reduced the resolution in full screen and in windowed and nothing makes any difference. Others have reported this on the forums here http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/62475-KSP-0-23-x86_64-Linux-GPU-Overheating

It feels to me like there may be a problem with the page flipping? Could be it's ignoring v-sync settings and updating the screen too fast putting load on the GPU?

my GPU starts melting violently in several scenarios, it already killed the cooling fan (it was old about to die, but this was last drop)...

1) research screen, hire screen, contract screen, sometimes main view at KSC --- here it slowly heats until its melting
2) when I fly high over KSCenter (and probably anomalies too) and look down --- instant melting
3) when I look into reflection of sun in water --- instant melting

my ATI HD4770 can run the game on full details, but then it goes wild just by looking some direction.
--- so I play at almost minimum details and 720P onely, but it still have tendency to start melting in firstly mentioned situations.

game version is 24.2, 32bit, while 64bit is even even faster melting my GPU in those situations
OS windows7 64bit

Win 7 64bit-KSP

Starting GPU temp is 66C. While I don't get crashes my GPU will get into the high 80's and up to 90. Turning off anti A dropped it to about a constant 85C. For comparison running Skyrim on full graphics only bumps it to 72C.

I'm running a HD6970 with the latest drivers as of today.

Win 7 64bit-KSP Radeon HD7850 2Gb

Starting GPU temp is 44C with KSP idling on menu. System idle temp 33C with 23C ambient.

With everything maxed, the highest recorded temp was 62C in R&D and Astronaut Complex. This is commensurate with unseewhale's observation of ~20C rise. Similar results on DirectX and OpenGL.

I have the feeling there are other agents involved with these rapid temp rises. Without some full hardware, driver and other logs, it's going to be difficult to find a common cause.

ATI HD4770 "fapping" shaders may be causing overheat, also it seems, that anomalies dont have any rendering reduction from distance (so its trying to render that one small pixel, which is full KSCenter, each frame).

Some shader twitching observations on different settings for you (mp4 realtime):

Low settings variations:
http://gyazo.com/761888a7372a32bb43f8b5c00c4b880f ; http://gyazo.com/f3cccf804bf865b1c4771078fbed19d2 ; http://gyazo.com/f26ee763061f200b7854a6983b4a1ad8 ; http://gyazo.com/e0f36aa7f30c80cc3e71b1a6b28efce6 ; http://gyazo.com/1c3afc0bba4bccd85329e1155ff7a776

High settings
http://gyazo.com/1b246b8b2b2ecb7aee7cc9feadd201f5 -> http://gyazo.com/2192d633ed8de26867e296b3acb57736

(I had more but evil gyazo dont let me access it until I pay :-s )
Shaders are fapping at all setting combinations I tryed... thats it.

game: v.24.2 32bit
OS: Win 64bit
GPU: old Ati Radeon HD4770 -driver: http://gyazo.com/7f537e1628d44b8de5e6b25797d7528f

sal_vager wrote:

Please test that this is no longer occurring for you on the current release, also please ensure that your graphics drivers are up to date and your GPU is not overclocked.

I honestly now think that this was a hardware GPU problem related to that card. I've upgraded to a GTX970 and don't have any of those issues anymore.

Alright, I ill leave this open though in case anyone using that card is able to test this.

I just dusted off KSP again for the first time since release and I'm experiencing this exact same problem. GPU temperature is normally in the 50s in all parts of the game except the research screen and the crew screen where the temperature skyrockets straight to 80 and then throttles the card. Temperature drops as soon as I leave those screens. everything is up to date, Windows 7 64, GTX780, g-sync monitor, frame limited to 60hz by PrecisionX16