A certain game interferes with my CPU(i9 9900K).

[PowahRanger]

Hello forum people,

I have an interesting mystery revolving around the combination of my CPU and the MMORPG called Flyff. Problem is as follows: I boot up the game launcher and wait for it to be ready (no anomalies), then I press play. The minute the game starts to load into the login screen my CPU temperature sensors shoot up to 100 degrees celsius flat. I played Flyff last weekend (sat+sun) no problems. I come home from work on monday, this happens. I have constated myself that this is a visual/software bug as this game is the ONLY game that lets my CPU act this way. It cant be faulty hardware, as you can read the things below here which I've tried.

Things I have tried:
- Re-booting my pc twice. One with short off time, one with long off time
- Checked if my CPU cooler is faulty, its still very sturdy in place on my MoBo.
- Felt air coming out of cooling radiator, when playing demanding games and with Flyff. Demanding games temps show as 50-65 degrees, air feels warm. Launched Flyff, air is ice cold, temps show 100C.
- Re-install game.
- Re-install game on another drive.
- Tested GTA 5 on maxed settings, CPU load and temp normal. (55C, 22% Load)
- Tested Battlefield 5, CPU load and Temp normal(65C, 40% load(I had multiple tabs open on chrome so might be inaccurate))
- Checked Temps on Speccy, Corsair LINK, Corsair iCUE, Show same values across different games and also the visual bug of 100 degrees celsius occurs.
- Deleted all CPU(cooler)-controlling software and re-installed them one by one, each time checking if temps under load were normal, and if temps whilst running Flyff returned to normal, nothing changed.
- Checked what sensor iCUE was reading( CPU Package), this should be the right one.

Some visual help:
Launcher opened:

Game launched and quit:

Game running, multiple programs temp check:

Game closed, Multiple programs Temp drop check:

For some reason Intel XTU reads somewhat possible correct values although I would consider these to still be relatively high for such an old game running on a 9900K.

PC specs:
CPU: i9 9900K (not overclocked)
Cooler: Corsair Hydro 115i
Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus Pro Z390
RAM: DDR4 3000Mhz (XMP Enabled) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro (2x8GB)
OS: Windows 10 Home

The ONLY thing that I have seen change between sunday and monday is a pop-up that said "iCue Update Available". I cant say for sure if this update was auto-installed and caused this problem.
The next thing I am going to do is find an older version of iCUE to see if anything changes and I will come back to my topic.

I am in need of help on this one for now.

-PowahRanger

 

[Captaingadget]

Have you tried running the stress test in XTU or Prime 95 and seeing what temps you get? Also perhaps try some other software such as Core Temp or HWMonitor see if you get the same temps when you launch Flyff just to rule out some fault with iCUE

 

[gasaraki]

Can you install hwinfo and check the data in there? Run the sensor only, go to the temp area and run your game. Let it run for a bit and hwinfo should record the high temp it saw and say if the cpu throttled.

 

[JamesSneed]

That third screen shot is really suspect showing 17% CPU utilization and 100c temps. That really doesn't feel like its related to any one game. This has to be related to the CPU cooler. Either the pump is starting to fail, there is some type of flow issue, or the fans are not spinning up properly. Ill almost bet there is an intermittent issue with the pump. Did you look at the 115i in Corsair LINK to see the fan and pump speeds? Honestly I could contact corsair tell them you have screenshots of 17% utilization with 100c temps then you have screenshots with higher cpu utilization with lower temps. See if they can help do something under warranty.

People have reported weird issues like this before:
http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=171285

 

[PowahRanger]

Have you tried running the stress test in XTU or Prime 95 and seeing what temps you get? Also perhaps try some other software such as Core Temp or HWMonitor see if you get the same temps when you launch Flyff just to rule out some fault with iCUE

6 min stress test on CPU:

HWInfo:

These values should be accurate! but my CPU cooler can not read these values so its fans keeps going 100%

 

[PowahRanger]

Can you install hwinfo and check the data in there? Run the sensor only, go to the temp area and run your game. Let it run for a bit and hwinfo should record the high temp it saw and say if the cpu throttled.

Well I knew this but iCUE doesnt read the H115i Sensor anyways as this already caused problems(not the same) for me before. And Corsair LINK isnt on my PC at this moment.

This also reads normal values, I cant seem to control my CPU cooler at the moment. I might try to instal corsair LINK to see if I can change anything with it. So far It has been nothing but a big pain up my ass using it.

 

[PowahRanger]

So I deleted LINK at first, because I couldnt control my CPU cooler. and then iCUE didnt let me change my cooler settings. So I reinstalled LINK, and it made my Discord stop working so I had to restart that. And then link suddenly said "Controlled by iCUE". It did not do this before! It didnt even detect my cooler ever since I installed iCUE a month ago. Then I F***ed off iCUE and LINK started working again, I didnt even have to change ANY settings and my cooler started to act normal again. Even all my other temp reading software works correctly now... what a load of bullshit this iCUE.

 

[gasaraki]

Yes, that seems normal. You're all set. That software was just reporting wrong.

 

[The Original Ralph]

i had intel's XTU create some strange conflicts on 2 different computers - in both case un-installing it corrected the issues,

just a suggestion, but if you want to re-install Link you might try dumping XTU