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Vlazor #1499
My computer fan is acting strange.(1)Category: Technical SupportSeptember-18-2015 12:52 PM PDT (7 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
When I'm in the Diablo 3 Menus or standing idle in town, my computer fan whirs in a very strange fashion.

BUT when I'm actually on the battlefield, doing a Rift or whatever, it sounds normal.

I'm confused?
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Omrakos
My computer fan is acting strange.(2)September-18-2015 12:59 PM PDT (7 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
Vlazor,

That isn't that uncommon really. It's probably your video card's fan you're hearing speeding up. There's nothing to limit it load-wise sometimes so it's going to run faster causing more heat and the fan to kick in to counter it.

As long as your video card is performing properly, it isn't anything to really be concerned about but if you'd like to manually enforce a framerate limit to keep it running cooler you can do so by either enabling vertical sync in the game or enabling the maximum foreground frame rate setting also in the game. Set it to about 60 which is what enabling vertical sync would do as well.

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