Is it the Card or the Game?

[Residual]

Dear all,

I recently purchased a game by the name of Crysis Warhead. Installed and booted the beast. Put all setting to 'Enthusiastic', and began to play...

Upon starting the first level, a horrendous noise began to emanate from what believe to be my graphics card. I have a BFG GT8800, which runs Fallout 3, The Witcher, on full graphical settings without a hitch i.e. the fans on the card don’t go a blaring! I just can’t for the life of me understand why the speed on my graphics card fan increases to super speed levels when I play Crysis Warhead (even when I turn down the graphical settings. This phenomenon is also exhibited when I play the Brother in Arms games.
I find this quite unnerving as I don’t want anything detrimental happenings to my card.

Any insight from ye good ole folk would be greatly appreciated.

[Ferral]

Mke sure motherboard and VGA card drivers are up to date first off. Then check for patches for the game.

[Residual]

Hmm, not sure about the motherboard bios/drivers, but I have updated the card drivers. Still to no avail.
Could it really be due to motherboard firmware being out of date?

[0iD]

In the graphics card control panel, is the fan control for the card on manual or auto? It may be the game is overriding this setting.

[Residual]

I haven't had a look at that as of yet. Heckl, I didn't even know that the option even existed or knew that applications have the power to control Graphics fan speed. I'll check and get back y'all. Thx for the help.

[Jagleman]

Yeah reckon it's the fan speed increasing. Checkout Nvidia's system tools and or Riva Tuner. And Crysis Warhead is a killer even for your 8800GT. It's worth disabling the Nvidia Physx in the Control Panel for test purposes. I've found this to be causing my 8800GT some problems in a few games (UT3 mainly).

[beeboy]

Install rivatuner and see if you can lower the fan speed and still keep the temp low. My 8800 cranks up to 90-100% if I let it, but with the fan at 50% the temp is exactly the same (55 degrees) but is much quieter.
Do some stress tests and monitor closely though, don't just set it low and load up the game!