The Communication Cube

[Null]

So it's only useful if you're a masochist then? Duly noted.

 

[ElPoco]

You can probably get the Yugi-Oh version with "Time to Duel"

 

[Null]

I was going to post this in the absurdism corner thread, but then I started thinking that the calorie figures seemed a bit too accurate to do that. So it's ended up here instead.

 

[TeDaDeS]

The forum appeared offline for two days. Any idea what happened?
And who fixes these things?

 

[Todespreis]

I thought, it's a normal server maintenance? The Pyra site is ofline every few weeks for half a day

 

[TeDaDeS]

I thought, it's a normal server maintenance? The Pyra site is ofline every few weeks for half a day

I think it was at least 2 full days. But maybe I check the forums a lot.

Btw. I noticed Tom Scott is back. He had an epic good-bye video leaving Youtube.

The new video:



Also the European Union announced a Microsoft Office replacement:

Euro-Office

Your sovereign office. Euro-Office has 20 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

github.com

 

[kuru]

What stops so many, if not most, games from "turning down the RPM" when entering the pause menu?
My PC is not cooled particularly well, probably dusty as heck again in addition to that, but I hear when it's shedding heat.
So many games when paused do not change anything when it comes to fan RPM.
Why is that? Game time is stopped in most cases, there's nothing to render but a menu screen. I don't understand.
Currently pausing the newer Wolfenstein, having it in the background, and PC is still venting like it's BBQ time. Lower level, but still not desktop-only level.

 

[pyrat]

What stops so many, if not most, games from "turning down the RPM" when entering the pause menu?
My PC is not cooled particularly well, probably dusty as heck again in addition to that, but I hear when it's shedding heat.
So many games when paused do not change anything when it comes to fan RPM.
Why is that? Game time is stopped in most cases, there's nothing to render but a menu screen. I don't understand.
Currently pausing the newer Wolfenstein, having it in the background, and PC is still venting like it's BBQ time. Lower level, but still not desktop-only level.

I'm not a gamer, or a physicist or an electrical engineer, but if you want my guess... The hardware got hot while playing and needs a while with fans on to get cool again.
The processing is not high, but the temperature still if, so the fans keep on

 

[TeDaDeS]

What stops so many, if not most, games from "turning down the RPM" when entering the pause menu?
My PC is not cooled particularly well, probably dusty as heck again in addition to that, but I hear when it's shedding heat.
So many games when paused do not change anything when it comes to fan RPM.
Why is that? Game time is stopped in most cases, there's nothing to render but a menu screen. I don't understand.
Currently pausing the newer Wolfenstein, having it in the background, and PC is still venting like it's BBQ time. Lower level, but still not desktop-only level.

In some games the game doesn't actually stop rendering, it just shows an overlay over the game. Other games the FPS might go to max due to less rendering causing the CPU/GPU to get stressed that way.
So, pausing the game doesn't always mean it stopped doing stuff. Games that do optimize for this will cause your PC to indeed cool down, causing the fans to stop having to cool so much.

 

[Djoga'Ro]

What stops so many, if not most, games from "turning down the RPM" when entering the pause menu?
My PC is not cooled particularly well, probably dusty as heck again in addition to that, but I hear when it's shedding heat.
So many games when paused do not change anything when it comes to fan RPM.
Why is that? Game time is stopped in most cases, there's nothing to render but a menu screen. I don't understand.
Currently pausing the newer Wolfenstein, having it in the background, and PC is still venting like it's BBQ time. Lower level, but still not desktop-only level.

Maybe with watercooling, don't know. But otherwise there's not much heat capacity, so cooling down after the load went away happens rather quickly - some seconds.

I'm not a gamer, or a physicist or an electrical engineer, but if you want my guess... The hardware got hot while playing and needs a while with fans on to get cool again.
The processing is not high, but the temperature still if, so the fans keep on

Playing Cyberpunk on Artix through Proton in full screen mode, I noticed that when Alt+Tab-ing out of it the fan speeds go up a notch. In my case maybe it's what @TeDaDeS described. Maybe without having to actually render anything, the frame time goes way down, the fps up, so the CPU preps more frames. ?

 

[TeDaDeS]

It appears Youtube is now blocking people when they're not logged-in. They'll block the video with the question "are you a bot?" and having you login to proof you're not. Similar to the age blocked videos.

I like that someone thought: "I should make a video on how to fix this, and put that on... Youtube".

 

[Git1]

Other games the FPS might go to max due to less rendering causing the CPU/GPU to get stressed that way.

I have a program that does that. My then brand new GTX1080ti GPU would squeal when viewing the main menu screen. I did some searching and found out the phenomenon is called 'coil wine', and the 1080 was susceptible to it. I ran a FPS overlay on that screen and saw it was running at well over a thousand frames per second! Turns out the dev neglected to put a frame cap on that menu screen.