I'm guessing you were getting a ton of frames in Valheim and unintentionally pushing your rig harder than you thought. Cap your frame rate to something reasonable (60 - 144 depending on what your rig normally runs stuff at and not 200+ etc) and I bet you won't suffer massive hardware failure.

Originally posted by sarteck:

Originally posted by luponix:

this is like blaming a stress test for making you reach high temperaturess.

Erm, no. Valheim is supposed to be a game, not a test to see how powerful your computer is.

Except valheim does not need a powerful computer. If valheim is causing issues for your temps and faulting hardware; the issue is with the user.

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If running Valheim is the equivalent of running a stress test for your machine, your machine is too far below spec to run it.

Originally posted by Hiryukaen:

Originally posted by sarteck:

Erm, no. Valheim is supposed to be a game, not a test to see how powerful your computer is.

Except valheim does not need a powerful computer. If valheim is causing issues for your temps and faulting hardware; the issue is with the user.

I mostly agree. I was claiming the same as you, that Valheim is not supposed to be a stress test. Hence my original post of "get off the Tandy 1000 and out of the 80's."

I should probably add, valheim and only valheim has caused overheating problems for me, i have played plenty of other games both higher and lower on the requirements and non have given trouble.

Examples, FTL, Enter the Gungeon, Conan exiles, Soul Calibur 6, Witcher 2 & 3, essentially a full gambit of game engines and only valheim causes the problem. It's definitely some poor coding on the valheim's part, everything else is completely stable on my machine.

As for hardware fans etc, cooling is decent my GPU reaches 35C under load and rarely even kicks on the fans. CPU is a similar story stable no matter how i use it, expect with valheim.

Originally posted by Seishisha:

Fair enough, sounds like it might still cause some issues for me then, probably safer leaving it alone, i can't afford yet another CPU replacement. Thanks for the answer.

Turn off VSynch and limit the FPS in the game settings. This solves your problem.

this is like blaming a stress test for making you reach high temperaturess. the issue is not the stress test but the insufficient cooling.

Originally posted by luponix:

this is like blaming a stress test for making you reach high temperaturess.

Erm, no. Valheim is supposed to be a game, not a test to see how powerful your computer is.

Fair enough, sounds like it might still cause some issues for me then, probably safer leaving it alone, i can't afford yet another CPU replacement. Thanks for the answer.

This game is not known for that. There was some faulty video cards around then when New world and Anno 1880 came out and people thought those games were frying their hardware, turned out to be faulty hardware though.

It still takes a ton of CPU, but there have been some improvements (especially in terrain) since it's first month there, yeah. Best bet is to try it out. If it breaks your hardware again, get off the Tandy 1000, out of the 80's and welcome to the world of tomorrow.

It's never really been much of a GPU consumer, just mostly CPU.