Fan not spinning while gaming on windows/AMD

Hello, welcome to the forums! Can you please precise your model with CPU and GPU details ? It would help me try to help you.

On the FW16, the fan curve is fixed (by the motherboard I believe, as the OS cannot control them). On the FW 13, you also can’t change the fan from the OS, but you can flash the controller directly if you are comfortable with that (source: Fan Control). However, I found this software under linux that can change the fan curve dynamically from the OS by talking to the EC controller directly: GitHub - TamtamHero/fw-fanctrl: A simple systemd service to better control Framework Laptop's fan(s). That might be why it’s more effective at keeping it cool!

There seems to be an utility to do the same thing under windows, confirmed to work with FW 13 with 11th and 12th gen intel processors: GitHub - DHowett/FrameworkWindowsUtils, see How do you control framework's fan speed on Windows with CrosEC for more details.

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