Why 0AD is consuming too much power

[leopard]

[leopard]

 

age of empires is same

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Because they are engaging the graphics card.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

[Gyokko上弦]

That computer is dead.

[real_tabasco_sauce]

3 hours ago, Gyokko上弦 said:

That computer is dead.

yes, it makes playing quite a struggle.

[Yekaterina]

@leopardi think the Windows task manager remarks the power consumption relative to the other running apps. 0AD consumes much more than the average program does so it is ranked to be super high. In fact, it is one of the least hardware demanding games I have ever played.

In the case of @real_tabasco_sauce it is a Windows bug that happens to my brother who still uses Windows; he had messages like CPU temperature being 8520 degrees Celsius and RAM usage of 120%.

[Yekaterina]

14 hours ago, leopard said:

Totally normal, high power consumption is good because it means your system is working hard to process 0ad. You should worry if its consumption is low - system is ignoring 0ad -> lag and crash

Best solution: use a Linux

 

[real_tabasco_sauce]

13 hours ago, Helicity said:

In the case of @real_tabasco_sauce it is a Windows bug that happens to my brother who still uses Windows; he had messages like CPU temperature being 8520 degrees Celsius and RAM usage of 120%.

I don't think it's a bug. For 1, I am using macOS, so I doubt its that .

A game FPS of 8 seems to agree with the %CPU usage. Hopefully this will be a little better in a27.

[leopard]

19 hours ago, Yekaterina said:

Best solution: use a Linux

I was using linux but now I need vpn to log into many of the hosts
if you have any free vpn suggestions in linux plz share.