🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3ucpj8pqjafsl53fi...@4ax.com>, 
rstow...@gmail.com says...
> 
> On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:14:06 -0400, David Lamb <dal...@cs.queensu.ca>
> wrote:
> 
> >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?
> 
> Actually in that case, I think those cards that got fried were running
> a beta driver that had a bug that prevented the fans from coming on.
> 
> So the real lesson there is probably to avoid beta software, and also
> that it's foolish to not monitor framerates and component
> temperatures.

Anyway, I had Asus' monitoring program running today. After 30 minutes 
of running Civ 5 the gpu temperature had gone from a happy 43 degrees 
Celsius to 70+ .... it took only less than 2 minutes to drop to 42 after 
I shut Civ 5 down.

Slightly worrying. 

-P.