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lquidfire

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From: South Africa

Registered: 2017-07-26

Posts: 53

[Solved] High CPU temp beeping when playing Rise of the Tomb Raider

Edit: This should have been posted in Multimedia and Games. Could someone please move this? Thank you.

Hi all,

When I play Rise of the Tomb Raider on Steam, I hear beeping form the PC speaker, indicating a high CPU temperature. Can you please help me investigate what could be the problem and how to solve this?

I first ran the game's Benchmark. Results (screenshot) here: https://imgur.com/a/mBZwrv8

I left the Diplay and Graphics settings as they were (they default to Medium). I play the game full-screen.

Please ask for info as required. Here are some things I can think of.

# uname -a
Linux tigerhome 4.19.1-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Nov 4 16:49:26 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lscpu: https://ptpb.pw/zUWU

I set cpu settings to `performance`:

$ echo performance | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor

dmesg: https://ptpb.pw/7bIw

Xorg.0.log: https://ptpb.pw/yzgo

$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X] (rev cf)

]$ pacman -Qs amdgpu
local/xf86-video-amdgpu 18.1.0-1 (xorg-drivers)
    X.org amdgpu video driver

$ pacman -Qs mesa
local/glu 9.0.0-5
    Mesa OpenGL Utility library
local/lib32-glu 9.0.0-4
    Mesa OpenGL utility library (32 bits)
local/lib32-libva-mesa-driver 18.2.4-1
    VA-API implementation for gallium (32-bit)
local/lib32-mesa 18.2.4-1
    An open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification (32-bit)
local/lib32-mesa-vdpau 18.2.4-1
    Mesa VDPAU drivers (32-bit)
local/lib32-vulkan-intel 18.2.4-1
    Intel's Vulkan mesa driver (32-bit)
local/lib32-vulkan-radeon 18.2.4-1
    Radeon's Vulkan mesa driver (32-bit)
local/libva-mesa-driver 18.2.4-1
    VA-API implementation for gallium
local/mesa 18.2.4-1
    An open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification
local/mesa-demos 8.4.0-1
    Mesa demos and tools incl. glxinfo + glxgears
local/mesa-vdpau 18.2.4-1
    Mesa VDPAU drivers
local/vulkan-intel 18.2.4-1
    Intel's Vulkan mesa driver
local/vulkan-radeon 18.2.4-1
    Radeon's Vulkan mesa driver

$ pacman -Qs steam
local/steam 1.0.0.56-1
    Valve's digital software delivery system

I did run

$ sensors

every now and then when the PC was beeping. The output can be found here: https://ptpb.pw/R3xv

Last edited by lquidfire (2018-11-17 13:20:50)

Makersmarx

Member

From: Costa Rica

Registered: 2018-04-17

Posts: 24

Re: [Solved] High CPU temp beeping when playing Rise of the Tomb Raider

Your temps look fine from the output you pasted. Are you certain its a temp issue? Is your PSU large enough to provide power when gaming? Have you tried something like s-tui so that you can see exactly when the issue occurs? Also, I had a UPS that was not sufficient under a heavy gaming load and it would beep. Do you use a UPS?

Edit: Some boards have a lower alert on temps and the temp warning beep can be changed within BIOS to a specified warning temp

Last edited by Makersmarx (2018-11-16 13:03:07)

lquidfire

Member

From: South Africa

Registered: 2017-07-26

Posts: 53

Re: [Solved] High CPU temp beeping when playing Rise of the Tomb Raider

I have a UPS, but that one isn't beeping.

I will look into this s-tui.

The BIOS was set to warn at 70 degrees C, I moved it up to 80 decrees C. That should still be save. I just played for some 40 minutes without a single beep. Yay!

nomorewindows

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Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 3,362

Re: [Solved] High CPU temp beeping when playing Rise of the Tomb Raider

It might help to use a realtime kernel linux-rt in one of the unofficial repositories (coderkun-aur-audio)
Maybe you have an AMD thermal sensor controversy processor/motherboard?

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