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Article #716642Re: hot video card
From: Ross Ridge
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:21
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:21
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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. Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db //
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