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Check for Overheating

How to check for signs of your CPU or graphics card overheating

Your processor or video card overheating is not only capable of causing short-term harm to your system's performance - it can result in permanent physical damage being inflicted on your computer.

HWMonitor displays current values, minimum values, and maximum values. Open it before playing!

Download and install HWMonitor

Ensure you click on the SETUP · ENGLISH button on the left; not the TRY HWMONITOR PRO ! button.

The final step of the setup wizard offers to display a hwm_readme.txt. You can untick this or just close it after it opens.

Grant HWMonitor elevated privileges if requested

HWMonitor may require additional permissions to access hardware sensors. This is normal.

Run HWMonitor in the background while you play

When you're finished gaming, either look at the temperature values yourself, or Create a Thread in Technical Support and show us screenshots of its output.

This guide assumes you have Homebrew installed. See here for a guide on how to install Homebrew.

Open the Terminal.

Enter the following command

Terminal

brew install --cask stats

Open Stats

Stats is a free graphical application. Search for it using Spotlight or open it through Launchpad.

Navigate through the first time set-up

Stats should now be displaying output in the menubar

Click on the CPU utilisation percentage to see a pop-up, which includes a temperature reading.

Further Help

Not sure what to make of what you're looking at?

Create a Thread in Technical Support and someone can analyse it for you.

Background Downloads

Track down and pause any downloads impacting your gameplay

Connect Your Monitor to the Video Card

Force your desktop to always use your more powerful graphics card