Please don't bite my head off...

[SatansApostle89]

Hi guys, need a little help with something! This will sound like a noob question so prepare yourselves!

 

Whenever I run skyrim (Original version and modded), my video card makes one hell of an unholy noise! It's the only time it makes that noise, and with more recent games it also doesn't make the noise (tested on sse and Tomb Raider reboot)... I feel that I'm maybe doing something wrong or installing incorrectly?

 

My specs are as follows;

OS:- Win10 64-bit

CPU:- AMD A8-6500 (with Radeon HD graphics) 3.5ghz

RAM:- 8 gb

Video Card:- AMD Radeon R9 200/ HD 7900 series with 4gb vram

 

 

Any friendly help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

Maybe I'm worrying about nothing and that the noise is normal, but it's still quite concearning!

 

EDIT: I also follow the step guide when installing skyrim (Don't know if that would help)... The mods and coincidently the load order that I use are as follows;

Skyrim

Update

Dawnguard

Hearthfire

Dragonborn

USLEEP

Skyrim Project optimization

Falskaar

Wyrmstooth

Climates of Tamriel

Gray cowl of Nocturnal

Official Highres texture packs

Unofficial Highres Texture pack

SkyUI

A Matter of Time

Auto Unequip Ammo

Convenient Horses

Less Intrusive HUD 2

Claralux

Ethereal Elven Overhaul

Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Interiors

Immersive Armors

Better Quest Objectives

Book Covers Skyrim

Helgen Reborn

Realistic Lighting Overhaul - Major City Exteriors

Sounds of Skyrim - The Wilds

Immersive Sounds Compendium

The Dark Brotherhood Resurrection

Sounds of Skyrim - Civilization

Sounds of Skyrim - The Dungeons

Moon and Star

Guard Dialogue Overhaul

Weapons & Armor Fixes Remade

AMidianBorn Book of Silence

Immersive Weapons

Bandolier bags & pouches

Hearthfire extended

Clockwork

Vilja

Inigo

Cloaks of Skyrim

Run for your lives

SMIM

Volundr

Book Covers Skyrim Lost Library

Cloaks of Skyrim Dawnguard

Dawnguard Rewritten - Arvak

Enhanced Blood Textures

When Vampires Attack

HighRes Mage Clothes

Forgotten City

It Beats for Her

The Paarthurnax Dilemma

INeed

Alternate Start

EnBoost

Ssme

Hialgo Boost

Edited November 4, 2016 by SatansApostle89

[Strongreaction]

Question: how do you know the noise is your video card?

 

I am guessing it is the gpu fan making the noise. Skyrim is a pretty demanding game on your graphics card so as it (the gpu) heats up the fan speeds up to cool you gpu. Or, it can be your apu fan trying to cool the processor when its under load. Maybe the apu or gpu fan is failing? Does it make a squeaking sound? If its a squeaky fan that's a sure sign it is going to fail sooner or later.

 

Open the case and check it out when you load Skyrim. Or, for example, if you have overclocking software like MSI after burner , you can monitor your fan speed, gpu temp etc.

 

 

I really doubt your mods are the cause of your problem.

Edited November 8, 2016 by Strongreaction

[Strongreaction]

PS. for craps sake thats a lot of mods for skyrim ;)

 

I have four!

[L3s7ing]

Maybe coil whine (high-pitched sound coming from the graphics card)? Can happen when your graphics card get under high load, or displays very high fps (as in loading screen for an example). Sometimes it helps to turn on v-sync or limit fps, or in some cases a game can have nearly no coil whine out of no reasons (i'm no pro at it, but i thinks it's something with the power draw of the graphics card and the load on your psu). Why some other games wouldn't have coil whine in your case i can't explain, would be good to know at which fps Skyrim runs. - Coil whine would be nasty, but nothing to worry about, it can't break anything.

 

However the way of installing Skyrim or the mods shouldn't cause this. And most of the mods you're running aren't very heavy on gpu or cpu, so the amount shouldn't be a problem (Skyrim can be run easily with 100-200 mods if not all of them are 4k textures or heavy scripts).

Edited November 9, 2016 by L3s7ing

[SatansApostle89]

Hi guys, thanks for the replies!

 

Firstly the fan noise is very much a loud straining kinda noise like a vacuum cleaner or like I'm trying to overload my gpu and it's definately my gpu making that noise, it has 3 fans and it makes the noise in certain areas (Snowy areas, dwarven ruins and occasionally caves)

 

I do have a bashed patch as well haha

 

I also don't have vsync enabled as I have enboost and hialgo boost enabled plus I did a STEP install with all ini tweaks listed...

 

Am I doing something wrong?

[L3s7ing]

If the noise only occurs in certain areas I doubt it's from the gpu fans, if they would be the problem, the noise would be there the whole time.

To test that you could manually adjust your fan speed with a program like AMD Overdrive or something like that.

 

Regarding hialgo boost i'm not completly sure, but I think it works with some kind of dynamic resolution and that "could" (never used it on my own, so I don't know for sure) affect your graphics card. Maybe you could try turning it off in the areas (should work with a hotkey...maybe F10, don't know for sure) where the problems occur and see if the problem is still there.

 

Otherwise I can't help you, sry :-/

[Mhyth]

When is the last time you put new thermal paste on your GPU? If it's old and dried out much smaller GPU heat spikes will cause your fans to run full blast.

 

I recently tried gelid thermal compound on both my CPU and GPU - it's a tad pricey but the difference on high end temperatures is amazing. I've got one of the original 760GTX cards that's always run hot 70C+ in games - now it's only 45-50C.

[Nocturnal36]

When is the last time you put new thermal paste on your GPU? If it's old and dried out much smaller GPU heat spikes will cause your fans to run full blast.

 

I recently tried gelid thermal compound on both my CPU and GPU - it's a tad pricey but the difference on high end temperatures is amazing. I've got one of the original 760GTX cards that's always run hot 70C+ in games - now it's only 45-50C.

Uh. Thermal paste doesn't go on your GPU there dude.

[Mhyth]

 

When is the last time you put new thermal paste on your GPU? If it's old and dried out much smaller GPU heat spikes will cause your fans to run full blast.

 

I recently tried gelid thermal compound on both my CPU and GPU - it's a tad pricey but the difference on high end temperatures is amazing. I've got one of the original 760GTX cards that's always run hot 70C+ in games - now it's only 45-50C.

Uh. Thermal paste doesn't go on your GPU there dude.

 

While you may be too inexperienced to know, the GPU has a heatsink on top of it just like a CPU does. The higher performance the thermal compound between the two the cooler the card will run.

 

And a word of advice more PC than my original response, don't knee-jerk respond to someone as if they're stupid to avoid shoving your foot in your mouth in the future.

Edited November 16, 2016 by Mhyth

[SatansApostle89]

Right, I've tried running without boost and it didn't stop... I've also tried using hialgo switch and chill to no avail :-(

 

About fan speed, I've looked through my radeon overdrive settings and it was automatically set to 44%... Do I set it higher or lower?