Why is my macbook pro 13in heating up every time i play Grid? How can i stop it?
Grid is a race game that you can buy off of the app store and i bought it thinking my macbook would not act the way it did.
The game downloads and i start to play it. After about 2 minuets, the fans kick on and get incredibly loud as the macbook starts to heat up. Whenever i play it, i make sure that all the other applications are closed and that the quality is at the very lowest that it can be at. Still does the same thing.
My mac is less then a year old so I'm guessing its not because of the age.
Why is this happening and is there a way i can get it to stop the computer from overheating to the point that the fans get so loud?
thanks everybody.
There can be any number of reasons, one of which is the game over-taxes the CPU and GPU. Another is that the software is not working properly. Try the following to see what the CPU% is for the game. Contact the game's developer as well. Since this is apparently a software issue that should be your first place to look for assistance.
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Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
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Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the View menu. Click on the CPU tab in the toolbar. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
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