Emiel255

Hello,
 
I sometimes have a problem with MSI Afterburner where the manual and custom fan curve of my GPU don't want to work for some seemingly inexplicable reason and I can't figure out how to solve this problem.
 
GPU: MSI RTX 2080TI Gaming X Trio
Motherboard: MSI X570 Godlike
 
The problem would normally occur ONLY with games such as Borderlands 3 and Ghost Recon Breakpoint (this has been happening for a while now). If I would start up MSI before I start up one of these games the fan control will do exactly what it needs to do but as soon as I actually start one of the aformentioned games, MSI would crash and restart which would result in me being able to adjust everything except the fan slider (manual and custom). I figured this had something to do with a file within the game directory somehow preventing me from adjusting my fan slider (and custom fan curve). I could not exactly find a solution on Google regarding the GPU fan control problem with those games. Normally the GPU fan controls would work with any other game.
 
However, I got the fan error on Monday (July 6th, 2020) when I started MSI. I wanted to turn on my OC and I hadn't even started a game yet. MSI didn't crash like Borderlands 3 and Ghost Recon Breakpoint but the slider simply didn't react the way it should have. I've never had it happen in that way before ONLY when I started the above mentioned games. All of my GPU drivers are up to date.
 
What I have already tried to do:
 
- I downloaded Precision X1 and checked if the problem would persist there as well. Unfortunately the fan slider would not work here either.
 
- I reinstalled MSI Afterburner (even the beta version) but to no avail.

- I downloaded a different program that would let me control the GPU fans called 'Argus Monitor. It unfortunately acted the exact same way as Afterburner and Precision X1
 
- To check how the fans would react to a synthetic benchmark I launched Kombuster (Monday July 6th, 2020). I set a custom fan curve in the hopes the fans would react as they should based on my fan curve. In Kombuster (with different kinds of Kombuster bencharks) the fans would ramp up and would almost immeditaley die down to a certain fan speed (like 20ish %) and then ramp up again as if something was inhibiting the fans from increasing its speed. This however, does NOT occur when playing a game. In games the fan speed is more constant but usually does not exceed a fan speed % estimate of 55. 
 
Note: My issue is NOT that the fans won't spin at all when playing a game. The issue now is that I somehow do not have control over the GPU fan slider wether I play a game or not as of July 6th, 2020. This problem used to be more contained with games like Borderlands 3 and Ghost Recon Breakpoint but now it is constant. Something else is controlling my GPU fans.
 
I again started up my PC (July 7, 2020) and the first (and only) thing I did was to check if MSI Afterburner somehow had restored my control over my fan speed. Unfortunately this was not the case and the problem still seems to persist.
 
This video I found on Youtube shows my exact problem:
 
As of today August 25th, 2020 I am still struggling with this issue
 
I was wondering if someone could make anything out of this and help me figure out a solution.
 
Thank you in advance!

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Any possible solutions regarding this issue that you have found?

It does nothing, it just automatically reverts back to whatever fan speed it was on. 

If you click on the gear icon in the fan speed setting, does that change anything?  I know if you click on the gear icon, it highlights the fan speed setting and activates the custom fan curve. If the fan speed isn't highlighted, then it's on a stock curve. It was a bit hard to tell in the youtube video cause of the text overlay. 

Can you post this on reddit or something? Maybe we will get more help there. Maybe in tech support or pc gaming subreddits. 

I have the EXACT same issue. I suspect the issue is actually the fact that we have an up to date GPU driver. I downgraded my driver to a fairly old one from about 4 months ago and the custom fan functionality returned. I restarted my computer for good measure, then the issue came back up. I am fairly certain the issue is a driver bug. If you really want to fix it, I would download a 2+ month old driver and stick with it. I ended up just using the current drivers because I really hate not being up to date plus my temps are not too bad so I can just wait until they fix this bug. 

Hello,
 
I sometimes have a problem with MSI Afterburner where the manual and custom fan curve of my GPU don't want to work for some seemingly inexplicable reason and I can't figure out how to solve this problem.
 
GPU: MSI RTX 2080TI Gaming X Trio
Motherboard: MSI X570 Godlike
 
The problem would normally occur ONLY with games such as Borderlands 3 and Ghost Recon Breakpoint (this has been happening for a while now). If I would start up MSI before I start up one of these games the fan control will do exactly what it needs to do but as soon as I actually start one of the aformentioned games, MSI would crash and restart which would result in me being able to adjust everything except the fan slider (manual and custom). I figured this had something to do with a file within the game directory somehow preventing me from adjusting my fan slider (and custom fan curve). I could not exactly find a solution on Google regarding the GPU fan control problem with those games. Normally the GPU fan controls would work with any other game.
 
However, I got the fan error on Monday (July 6th, 2020) when I started MSI. I wanted to turn on my OC and I hadn't even started a game yet. MSI didn't crash like Borderlands 3 and Ghost Recon Breakpoint but the slider simply didn't react the way it should have. I've never had it happen in that way before ONLY when I started the above mentioned games. All of my GPU drivers are up to date.
 
What I have already tried to do:
 
- I downloaded Precision X1 and checked if the problem would persist there as well. Unfortunately the fan slider would not work here either.
 
- I reinstalled MSI Afterburner (even the beta version) but to no avail.

- I downloaded a different program that would let me control the GPU fans called 'Argus Monitor. It unfortunately acted the exact same way as Afterburner and Precision X1
 
- To check how the fans would react to a synthetic benchmark I launched Kombuster (Monday July 6th, 2020). I set a custom fan curve in the hopes the fans would react as they should based on my fan curve. In Kombuster (with different kinds of Kombuster bencharks) the fans would ramp up and would almost immeditaley die down to a certain fan speed (like 20ish %) and then ramp up again as if something was inhibiting the fans from increasing its speed. This however, does NOT occur when playing a game. In games the fan speed is more constant but usually does not exceed a fan speed % estimate of 55. 
 
Note: My issue is NOT that the fans won't spin at all when playing a game. The issue now is that I somehow do not have control over the GPU fan slider wether I play a game or not as of July 6th, 2020. This problem used to be more contained with games like Borderlands 3 and Ghost Recon Breakpoint but now it is constant. Something else is controlling my GPU fans.
 
I again started up my PC (July 7, 2020) and the first (and only) thing I did was to check if MSI Afterburner somehow had restored my control over my fan speed. Unfortunately this was not the case and the problem still seems to persist.
 
This video I found on Youtube shows my exact problem:
 
As of today August 25th, 2020 I am still struggling with this issue
 
I was wondering if someone could make anything out of this and help me figure out a solution.
 
Thank you in advance!