Dragon age Inquisition - CPU overheating

[PerspicuousLoris]

I can barely play a minute without my cpu temperatures reaching 95 and having to close the game for fear of my computer auto shutting down. I reach minimum specifications (albiet barely.) I put everything on low or off, dropped the resolution to 1280x720 and there was no change. I have an Acer Aspire V3, with a Geforce 750M, 8gb of ram and an Intel i7 quad core at 2.2ghz. 

[Haellborne]

What cooler do you have on your CPU?

And the graphics settings won't make much of a difference; the game hogs the CPU somethin fierce.

[alchemist7]

Recommend checking for a bios update,

http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/drivers

[Neshira]

Yikes! Sounds like an isolated issue. Your rig is much better than mine but mine never gets too high even after playing all day.

[PerspicuousLoris]

Unfortunatly it's a laptop, so I have no idea, the exact model is an Acer Aspire V3-772G-9829. I've heard from hearsay that there could be a problem with the heat sinks for V3s? But I havn't had any problems up until now

[PerspicuousLoris]

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@alchemist7 wrote:

Recommend checking for a bios update,

http://www.acer.co.uk/ac/en/GB/content/drivers

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Thanks, I've done that, I don't have time to try the game now but I'll let you know if that helped later

[Deeveo]

This must be one of the very few games that I've seen push my CPU usage on task manager to 100% (core i5 750 @3.4GHz, 2 cores with HT). Most games only manage to use 2 threads which doesn't really tax the CPU to maximum. Check and clean possible dust clogging the heat sinks. If it's a new laptop then it's cooling isn't up to spec.

[PerspicuousLoris]

Is there any tutorials for that? I would have no idea of where to start. Oh, and I've only had the laptop for about 4 months.

[Deeveo]

Shouldn't really have problem with dust yet since you've had it only for 4 months. But when you do need to clean it a can of pressurised air is propably the easiest solution, just remembet to shutdown and remove powercord and battery first. Check these youtube videos for general idea of what to do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0BQ6YUFaoY, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJOX3lC83Bg.

[stormkiller1972]

it seems it isnt a CPU problem, but a game problem.

See the following thread for other people with the same/similar problem.

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Dragon-Age-Inquisition/Patch-made-performance-MUCH-worse/td-p/4101401/page/...