[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[Rydin]

Going in circles here.

What you call the login screen I am guessing is the white screen with the start, opening movie, etc. options, that one has some pretty clouds in the lower area, except that SE is dumb and they are almost invisible. So there is your load.


I'll just lol here at your complaints of overworking hardware, I guess there is just no way to help you wrap your mind around the fact that CPU/GPU are made to be run at 100%, as much as you don't want it to be true.

Here's some advice: Leave your case open, lower your graphic settings. Or just wait for the PS3 version. PC gaming is all about replacing hardware often.

Load isn't the only consideration

There are programs that use 100% of your CPU/GPU and don't heat up your system as much as other programs that cause max load

[Ilean]

Load isn't the only consideration

There are programs that use 100% of your CPU/GPU and don't heat up your system as much as other programs that cause max load

Proof please.

That's a new one...

[Rydin]

Proof please.

That's a new one...

Thats the idea behind a stress test...
In modern CPU's there are floating point ALU's and integer ALU's... depending on your architecture, different programs with the same %usage can cause differing levels of heat based off of how optimized they are for that specific CPU architecture and which operations are being handled....

ALSO

A DX9 graphic intensive program could run your system at 100% load but relies on the CPU for many things that the GPU could do much more efficiently.... whereas a DX10 or DX11 game that is equally as complex will still push your system to %100 but will (In theory, it obviously depends on the coding also) run more efficiently and produce less heat.... because each process is sent to the processor that is best equiped to handle it

Like I said... run Prime95, OCCT, Furmark and Cinebench nonstop for a week and see what happens

[Elkwood]

Like I said... run Prime95, OCCT, Furmark and Cinebench nonstop for a week and see what happens

HeHe I can only imagine what they would do if ran for a week personally I don't like to even do the 24 hour test they recommend.