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Post by xadera on Dec 9, 2010 4:43:17 GMT -5
If/When anybody runs Poker Night at the Inventory next, could you open up task manager in the background so you can check how much resources it uses?
With all the error's and stuff it's been having (you should see the Steam forums), as well as my own trouble (a capacitor blew on my video card when the game got "intense", though I'm not saying the game necessarily caused it), I'm curious as to how much resources the game actually uses. I'd check myself, but my computer is currently dead without the video card and I don't think I'll be playing Poker Night again anytime soon XD
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Post by pneuma08 on Dec 9, 2010 6:17:21 GMT -5
Task Manager says it starts out with ~200M of memory in the menu, which grows to ~300. It uses ~90% of one core of my CPU as well.
I have a AMD triple-core CPU, 4G DD3 RAM running at 1066, and a Radeon 5770 all running at factory speeds. Also, this is under normal conditions with Chrome and other things running in the background.
So....I basically found nothing unusual. The mouse tracking does seem sluggish in the opening menu (which is normal for me with Poker Night) and Windows Task Manager says nothing really about the strain on a GPU.
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Post by xadera on Dec 17, 2010 18:59:07 GMT -5
Ahh, okay. Not quite as hot as I'd thought it might. I think TF2 uses around 400-600 M on its own, so Poker Night isn't that bad.
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Post by fivealarm on Dec 20, 2010 17:22:28 GMT -5
Don't be concerned with whether software is pushing your hardware so hard that it results in damage. Components operating under load consume more power and generate more heat than they would under idle conditions. This is completely normal and the engineers who designed the components are fully aware that their designs need to account for the increased stress.
If the hardware fails under load, it is not the fault of any software you were running.
In order for running software to actually damage the hardware, it would need to send low level instructions directly to the hardware much like a driver. It would probably have to do something absurd like, ramp up the voltage and ask the processor to compute Pi to the nth digit with the fan turned off.
The code in most game executables runs at the user level and cannot interact directly with the hardware and is not capable of causing harm.
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Post by vultanphase on Dec 21, 2010 11:09:29 GMT -5
Didn't you know? Poker Night is an awful Video Card Capacitor Driver.
It's really bad at being a Video Card Capacitor Driver.
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