Hi guys,
I’m experiencing a crash when trying to compile more than ~2000 shaders at one time. I can quickly compile around that amount, but anything beyond that number will give me a bluescreen with the report of WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR (which is the least helpful error message in the world). This is the only time my computer crashes, and my hardware is relatively new (and powerful), so I can’t figure out what the issue is. Sometimes I can compile more than 2000 shaders, but if I try to reach 2500 it will crash 100% of the time. This has been happening since 4.1, and I haven’t found any solutions yet on my own. Now that I have a new wave of content coming into one of my projects, I’m sitting here trying to break it into multiple maps so I can try to compile 65k shaders, 2k shaders at a time. I’d really just like a solution that doesn’t feel like a band-aid.
Here’s my specs:
Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit (6.3, Build 9600)
Intel Core i7-4790K @ 4.00 Ghz (not overclocked) - Are you a human?
2x8GB Corsair DDR3 1866 RAM - Are you a human?
ASUS Maximus VII Hero motherboard - Are you a human?
NVidia GeForce GTX 680
The perforce repository + engine is located on a SSD with 90 gigs of space.
I don’t know if anyone else has had this issue, or if someone could at least tell me what might be affected most by shader compilation (CPU?), that’d be helpful.
My guess:
I used to have an older CPU model - the Intel Q6600 - that was bought in 2008. When compiling shaders it would also crash around the 2000 mark, but it would also go from ~90 degrees C to ~105 degrees C, then crash. It was old and running very hot, so it needed replaced. I was assuming that was the issue, but this new CPU will go from ~50 degrees C to ~100 degrees C during the time it takes to reach 2000 shaders, then Core Temp starts throwing warnings about it getting very hot right around crash time. I have a new case with 2x240 MM fans and 4x smaller fans, and excellent air flow. My CPU will push all 4 cores to 95% capacity while compiling shaders.
Am I just overheating my CPU when trying to compile shaders? Is there a software-based solution to try and calm down the CPU while doing this? I’m compiling roughly 2000 shaders per minute, and don’t mind at all if I have to compile slower if that means not crashing.
Thanks in advance!