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Article #719607Re: hot video card
From: David Lamb
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:14
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:14
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On 10/03/2013 4:21 AM, Ross Ridge wrote: > Peter Huebner <no.one@this.address> wrote: >> I cannot understand why or how that should be so. We're talking about a >> TBS game here ... > > It's actually much easier for simpler graphics to fully exploit all the > power of your video card. More complex rendering likely to have more > parts of the GPU either unused or waiting. There was a game, I think it > was Starcraft 2, that had a main menu that was infamous for overheating > video cards until they put a frame limiter on it. Hmm. A slight flaw in the usual strategy of trying to pump out as many FPS as you can manage?
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