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Hardware Related Issue (Desktop makes a strange sound when near a planet)

Hardware Related Issue

Grandyzer

Date: Thursday, 09.05.2013, 00:48 | Message # 1

Observer

Group: Newbies

Canada

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Hi,

This isn't really a bug-related issue, but I've been having a problem where whenever I approach a planet, my computer will begin making a strange whining sound. Has anybody else experienced this as well? Could it harm my computer, or be an indicator of stressing my computer too much with SpaceEngine. It has never happened before, and doesn't happen outside SpaceEngine.

My system specs are

i5 3570k
Radeon 7950
16Gb RAM

anonymousgamer

Date: Thursday, 09.05.2013, 01:56 | Message # 2

World Builder

Group: Global Moderators

United States

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Quote (Grandyzer)

This isn't really a bug-related issue, but I've been having a problem where whenever I approach a planet, my computer will begin making a strange whining sound.

This is just speculation, but it could be the fan in your graphics card speeding up as it generates the planets surface.

Desktop: FX-8350 4.0 GHz, 8 GB DDR3 RAM, EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW 8 GB, 2 TB HDD, 24 inch 1920x1080 screen
Laptop: Core i5 480M 2.66 GHz (turbo 2.93), 8 GB DDR3 RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6550m 1 GB, 640 GB HDD, 17.3 inch 1600x900 screen

SpaceEngineer

Date: Thursday, 09.05.2013, 20:31 | Message # 3

Author of Space Engine

Group: Administrators

Russian Federation

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This version of SE have adaptive VSync. When you fly between stars, GPU load is low and fan dows not rotates very fast. But when you land on a planet, SE starts to generate landscape textures and GPU becomes fully loaded, those fan starts rotating at full speed.

Hardware Related Issue (Desktop makes a strange sound when near a planet)

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