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Article #719618Re: hot video card
From: Ross Ridge
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:59
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:59
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Ross Ridge wrote: > 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. David Lamb <dal...@cs.queensu.ca> wrote: >Hmm. A slight flaw in the usual strategy of trying to pump out as many >FPS as you can manage? At least for a main menu or something like that, since 1000 fps is unnecessary. For Civilization 5 gameplay, you might appreciate its ability to exploit your video card's full processing power especially on lower end cards and/or when zoomed out on large maps. Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db //
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