[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[SilvertearRen]

Whatever this thread was about it's full of misinformation. When a game is actually using your CPU/GPU it's doing what it was designed to do properly. If something does burn out it won't be because of a game, it will be not cleaning out your case semi regularly and/or trying to overclock without sufficient cooling. Complaining Crossfire/SLI isn't scaling 100% isn't even related at all.

Before you say "oh but this <insert game here> burned out video cards!". Yeah they did burn out cards except that they had insufficient cooling to begin with straight from the manufacturer which doesn't fall on developers to design around, take it up with who you bought it from.

There's little reason to have General Drawing Quality above 8 when you can accomplish the same effect by turning on AA with far less of a performance hit. 60 FPS consistently is considered a luxury on high settngs in anything recent, ~30 FPS is more than playable on non FPS/twitch games.

Then, be a dear and explain why ArmA II, which is data-intensive and set to maximum graphics settings, runs my CPU and GPU at 50% load and runs great, while FFXIV runs my GPU at 99% load and causes my video card to reach borderline overheating temperatures unless I set the fan manually to full speed. Both of these games are DirectX 9 games.

It is obvious here that the client was not fully optimized for the PC platform, and is causing these performance issues.

You're trying to make a straw-man argument with insufficient cooling and poorly-built graphics cards as an excuse. Programmers know that even the best hardware can be destroyed by poorly written software. When a game is "actually" using the CPU/GPU, it may be functional, but there's a marked difference between "using the CPU/GPU efficiently" and "using the CPU/GPU like a retard".

Edit: My point will be proven when Guild Wars 2 comes out and uses my Radeon 5870's GPU workload up to only 75%.