All these years playing GTAV and I only now learn that using the custom radio station cooks your CPU

Those maximum temps were reached when I just sat in my car with the radio tuned to Self Radio

Thanks a lot, Rockstar

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Turning the Volume Off on Every Game and Playing Podcasts in the Background Gang stay winning
- Yeah but the way GTA's custom radio stations incorporate your music into the game world makes makes them fun and immersive in a way that playing mp3s in the background just isn't
- Just turn off the music but keep the sound effects.
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_V#Adding_custom_music
Suggested to use 48 kHz 16-bit signed WAV files (normal format and bitrate of the in-game radio) instead of MP3 files to avoid this issue.
- I actually tried to do that, both with this ffmpeg command
  
  for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %a in ('dir /B *.mp3') do ffmpeg -i "%a.mp3" -acodec pcm_s16le -ar 48000 "%a.wav"
  and exporting my audio files from audacity with these options
  I still got these results
  
  shit’s fucked
What the actual fuck?
Like, we could do this shit back on the OG Xbox, a machine that had to powercycle itself to let Morrowind load, without hiccups.
- It's not just playing back mp3 files. For example, if you leave your car radio on and leave your car, the game applies all kinds of environmental and spatial effects to the audio to make it sound like the music's blasting out of your car's speakers
  I still can't believe it taxes your CPU this much
  
  Knowing Rockstar's record with PC ports they probably just screwed something up.
  
  Real-time audio processing is one of the more intensive things CPUs do, and when it gets out of realtime it's noticeable real quick and
  . Obviously there's some problem with how they've implemented calculating it versus the normal radio stations though. Weird the WAV conversion doesn't work, I'm positive I did that years and years ago. What patch level are you on?
real gta gamers love singing along to Meet Me Halfway for the 30,000th time
75c is not that bad at all, it's well below TJ Max for like 99% of modern chips. This is just another walk in the park for laptop users who are used to seeing like 100c when playing games, lol. I'd definitely prefer my game to not eat up my entire computer for playing a custom radio station, but it's not like it's going to cause nuclear meltdown.
- It still feels bad knowing just switching to that radio channel is going to instantly make the CPU 10+ degrees warmer

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