New game engine question

[TheFatHousecat]

I play on a laptop << A bad one. I have to have a cooling pad, and balance my laptop on the edge of my desk so that I can put an extra standing fan under it. My room's always so cold :< I'm gathering Walnut Logs whilst wearing gloves atm~ and my GPU is currently at 107C...

But yes, the new engine will be a lot easier on our systems.

[Andrien]

I play on a laptop << A bad one. I have to have a cooling pad, and balance my laptop on the edge of my desk so that I can put an extra standing fan under it. My room's always so cold :< I'm gathering Walnut Logs whilst wearing gloves atm~ and my GPU is currently at 107C...

But yes, the new engine will be a lot easier on our systems.

omg wow 107C, is that dangerous? I play on low settings with drawing quality set at 5/10, and 30fps. It seems to stay around 85 to mid 90 now.

[tymora]

My PC is a good stand-in for a room heater during Winter.
Heck, I use the graphics exhaust to warm my milk.

And...no... not kidding on the above.

[Antipika]

My PC is a good stand-in for a room heater during Winter.
Heck, I use the graphics exhaust to warm my milk.

And...no... not kidding on the above.

Same here Overclocked CPU/GPU, and doing GPGPU + CPU burn 24/7 therefore my room doesn't stay too cold. Also have my PS3 and X360 facing the wall, back at me, so exhaust of my PS3 can keep warm any type of food I put in front (that include pizza while too focusing to play something can take hours before finishing it) and the X360 warm my feets.

Use heat to your advantage

As for OP issue, was already answered earlier but yeah, pretty bad cooling system but also and maybe poor airflow in your case. PSU also plays a major role in airflow. Changing from a crappy to a good PSU can lower the temp inside the case by ~5°C+ easy.

A better cable management can also help to reduce the overall temperature, with little to now cost.

[Nabiri]

My PC is a good stand-in for a room heater during Winter.
Heck, I use the graphics exhaust to warm my milk.

And...no... not kidding on the above.

>.> Every night in winter my computer stays on for this reason. XD
*huggles computer for warmth*

[Felis]

From an interview:

Gamer Escape: 2.0 is going to be a new client, new servers, new engine. Is this still a form of Crystal Tools? Is this the Luminous engine? What can you tell us about that? Is there going to be support for Direct X 11?

Yoshida: First of all.. the current engine like Crystal Tools or the Luminous project, are made more for console games where they’re able to show the greatest level of graphics in a passive environment whereas an MMO is an active environment where, while you still want it to look beautiful, you also have many many people coming together in the same world. You have something like MW3 where the graphics are beautiful but what would happen if you had like 3 or 400 people on the screen at once. Would the engine be able to handle that? So what we wanted was something that could handle more of an active gameplay that we’re aiming for but also be able to provide beautiful graphics and landscapes. We found that Crystal Tools and Luminous would not be the optimal solution for this so that’s why we’re going to develop our own.

One of the reasons we had some trouble with the original launch of FFXIV was because we went through Crystal Tools and it was an engine that wasn’t really optimized for an MMO and so we’re currently working with technologists that are working on Luminous to make us a custom, optimal engine that will work for FFXIV.

As for DX 11, the first thing the dev team feels we have to do after the release of 2.0 is have a graphics engine that can accommodate the high-end computers and let those players have the highest quality graphics, smooth playability and a lot of different characters on screen- not the 40 we have now but having lots of characters displayed without having performance lag. But we’re also looking at the users with lower end computers as well and being able to create a system where you don’t have to have a high end PC to play. It also means having a system that will also handle the PS3 hardware as well that you have and just because it’s on the PS3 doesn’t mean it’s going to have lower quality. Maintaining quality for all three platforms- for high-end, low-end and PS3 and having an engine that will support this is what we’re aiming for with 2.0 and once that’s completed, and we hope to have that completed for 2.0, the next step will be to get the game ready for DX 11. So it’s in our schedule but we decided to make sure we had those three things covered by 2.0 and pushed back DX 11 for now. It’s not off the table thought and definitely the next thing we do after this.

http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/2011/10...-is-out-there/

[ChiefCurrahee]

So with this new game engine they are using for 2.0, I was wondering will it fix the graphics issue I'm currently having with my computer overheating and sounding like its ready to take off into outerspace.

Under your main menu and under config there is a setting to limit FPS to 30. It has greatly reduced the fan noise coming from my PC, and my room isn't as hot either!

[Antipika]

Under your main menu and under config there is a setting to limit FPS to 30. It has greatly reduced the fan noise coming from my PC, and my room isn't as hot either!

Off course it does reduce the fan noise, because limiting the framerate greatly lower your GPU charge. What's the point however of buying a high end graphic card if you end up limiting the framerate?

None.

[Aenarion]

107c is indeed rather dangerous territory, I'd check if the cooling fan is even functioning at that point, or if the whole thing is clogged up beyond believe, or if the heatsink is even making proper contact w/ the GPU.

[indira]

They also licensed Unreal's, so not sure what they will be using.

most likely they'll be using it since they used it before and it basicly one of the best engine out there & they dont have time to make one from scratch again and guess if its going to work.

well its graphics are gonna have to fit on the PS3's 256MB of video ram so it should be alittle more on the x64 pc's that means we'll get cool video cards like my two GTX480's wont feel like a melt down anymore.