What shity graphics you talking about?? look at the video all maxed out at 2k.
Is not a driver issue. 100% Already tried 3 version drivers.
If your GPU can run hot enough to damage itself then you are doing something wrong.
Either your room is super hot or your case has very restrictive airflow.
Modern GPUs should all come with a cooler that is good enough to keep temperatures low enough even with 100% GPU utilisation.
My GPU doesn’t even need to spin up the fans to max when while it’s on 100% load.
Did you watched that video or you like talking nonsense?
It shows clearly the settings I’m using, and lower temps in second part after I applied the tweak. The video is 1080p because of YT, I shot the video at 2k using 2k in game resolution.
You should only care about temps when they are dangerously high, and if they can get dangerously high then something about your computer is wrong.
A computer should be able to sustain 100% loads for a long time or it’s a very awfully built computer.
The Video is to help others to lower their GPU temps and power consumption.
You can play AoE 4 on 40 C on GPU with as little as 100 W/ power draw of the GPU @ high detail @2k.
Why would you play AoE4 at 70 C GPU and 190 W power draw???
The graphics of AoE 4 was mediocre from the start and the animation to. Is it worth it? 190 W only GPU? A sad joke… specially for that textures and animation.
You should worry about your hardware not mine. Look at my temps and now look at yours.
The video bellow. And I’m running a 2017 card in 2 k
Update.
Bug is still there. Tweak still works second part of the video you’ll see the temps I’m usually running AoE4.
I mentioned two things one of which was the drivers, the other more important thing is to check the temperature in your computer that is most likely the issue here.
I ignored the other “thing you said” as much as you ignored my pictures and my video which show clearly that I check temps in my PC constantly, in top of that is HW info that runs as well.
Look at the video second part I have no such issues. I build my PC s since 1998. I never bough prebuild or brands. I fixed hundreds of Dell, HP and Compaq.
As I said above, the video is to help people to run AoE4 at lower temps and lower power draw almost half.
I did had 75 C on GPU before finding the tweak. Even in 1vs1. Unexplainable GPU consumption for such mediocre quality graphics and low count of units 1vs 1.
Some people still runs AoE 4 at 75 C GPU and they are not happy.
I didn’t ignore your pictures, I just didn’t see them. No need to get so personal, when people try to help you. Talk about being ungrateful for people just giving their helpful tips.
I just came into this subject, reading a bit then putting my few suggestions that I can think about. You know best what you have tried or haven’t.
I’m not getting personal( first thing in this post are the pictures and the video I never thought someone can miss them 
) and I don’t really need help atm, specially with my hardware but, thanks for offering.
I tried way too many to that this game deserves my time. But I found something good and easy to do. Hope other people will find the video and help them out.
As I said my GPU doesn’t even turn to fans to 100% when it’s on 100% load. I could always manually increase the fan speed if I’d want to, but why should I. Having the GPU at 70°C has absolutely no negative effects at all.
Turning up the fans would just make noise so why should I want to do that?
I just don’t understand the whole reasoning behind the endeavour.
You want to waste less energy? That would be a semi reasonable thing to do.
Also AoE4 almost idles my GPU on max settings but that’s a different story.
you very cleary proved you don’t know what you are talking about, i see myself out
also 70 to 75°C is what i expect to see on the GPU, if you hit 90 then you should worry, i see that 70° myself, on a 125watt card if power draw has to be brought up, usually running around 105 watts in aoe4 with 60 fps cap + vsync, your obsession with 40° makes me wonder how bad that cards cooling is
yes its called cpu bottleneck, so he rather suffers cpu stutter over gpu doing its job
I’ve got around 40- 50 C and you say you got 70 C and I’m the one with bad cooled card? You sir are very confused.
Mine is a 1080 Ti and can go to 290 W. More W = more heat.
You can see clearly in first video that the card reach 190 W. In second video is reaching again around 180 W. However the average is different.
If your card is a 125 W card how come you got 70 C? that I would call bad cooling not mine.
Unless you running the fans only when your GPU is 70 % load which is a bad idea.
You expect 70-75 C from a GPU??? Why? you like to toast bread while playing.
I’m not expecting 70 or 75 C from a decent GPU specially in AoE4. Mediocre texture like that and mediocre animation, should ask less from a GPU, really.
Haven’t got an obsession with 40 C, I have an obsession how Aoe4 doesn’t listen to in game settings of 60 FPS after 2 years and you see clearly in 2 videos now, a 15 C difference when is “capped” by the game only and when is capped by NCP. Is really sad that you ignore 15 C difference in temps.
Your GPU doesn’t turn the fans even on 100% load. Is that your configuration input or manufacturer? You don’t need to manually increase anything you just build a fan curve.
On GPU but on CPU as well and other electronics for that matter, preemptive cooling is the best. Run the fans on slower RPM but, all the time.
Stopping , starting the fans 15 times /hour will wear them off earlier, not to say is not saving energy, is just a stupid gimmick. Starting and stopping a rotor several times is not more eco than running that rotor on lower RPM all the time. Simply laws of physics.
How man thousand times can a fan spin up before getting damaged?
Or even million times?
Yeah the fans for my GPU will probably brake after 20 years, on a GPU that will be obsolete in like 5 years.
Running the fans constantly is pretty stupid. Why should the fans run when you are just on the Desktop? It would wear them down and wastes electricity.
It’s like leaving your car running over nights because cold starts harm the engine.
Cars even have start stop automatic nowadays.
Also why should it constantly start and stop?
It starts when you launch a game and stops when you finish playing the game. Unless you constantly tab out and minimize the game.
Also since the fan speed is determined by temperature and not usage that means it won’t react instantly since all the coper and the cooler has to warm up or cool down first.
So it you use your GPU at 100% for like 5 seconds to render something it will likely not even have to turn on the fans.
The fans speed is determined by the temperature.
The hotter it gets the faster the fans spin. The GPU usage doesn’t matter for that.
If you make a GPU you want it to be able to run on 100% usage in most conditions. You don’t want it to be thermally throttled.
So you design a cooler that doesn’t need to run at 100% fan speed in good conditions.
For example when I have 20°C room temperature and a case with good airflow the GPU should not have to run at 100% fan speed because it could be 35°C in my room and my case could be full of dust.
My fans are at like 70% speed when I am at 100% load, not 0% speed.
And no I have not touched the fan curves or anything.
Default settings.
Modern GPUs have massive heat skins because they can use a lot of power when on 100% load.
But they barely need any power when idle so the massive heat sink is more then big enough to keep them cold without having to turn up the fans at all.
As said multiple times before. There is absolutely no issue at all with having your GPU be at 80°C. There is no reason whatsoever to try to keep it at a lower temperature.
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You, uh, don’t seem to understand how modern hardware seems to work? Respectfully.
It’s like complaining that NVMe drives run hot or something.
ig you should do your research, and try not to teach thermodynamics to a mechanical engineer odds are ik it better than you ever will
also what i admittedly didn’t list here is its a laptop GPU, so for that kind of package 70°C at 125 watts is very good, as for desktop card, if it goes up to lets say 200 watts and hits 75 degrees then you’re simply using the card to its fullest
now here i completely agree, the game asks far more than it should, on high end of the spectrum, based on what you can see, especially with too many either broken or halfassed effects (octagonal torch arc for instance or siege not adjusting to terrain, basics really)
did try to replicate this since but i couldn’t reproduce it still (idea being for all i know it could be the install fumbling it up) and you’d need a good idea on how common this issue is