Real Environment Concerns

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Could we pretty please have a 1 - 5 microsecond sleep in the main loop? This will stop the thing from consuming 100% CPU resources and should not impact the gameplay. It will reduce power usage and help save the environment (as well as our computers; running cooler = longer life).
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
whaaaa...?

sorry went straight past me...say again?
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
I recall in my past coding days (c++), microsecond sleep was used to have the cpu drop its high resource consumption by putting the program on hold for a certain amount of time, usually in microseconds , as not to be noticeable by the end user. It as mentioned above in the long run would conserve power ( but it would take quite a while ).

I currently don't know of any games that do this...

Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
ermmm multi post? thanks for explanation, I think I got it the third time round
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
damn the forums!!!!! yeah my browser hung up as it was saving my post, and that is what happened...
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Cleaning up your mess again, lordkosc....
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
*evil eyes*

Thanks...
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
It will reduce power usage and help save the environment (as well as our computers; running cooler = longer life).

Funny, the minimal benifit is lost by a single (additional) powercycle, or by haveing all sorts of background programs running when the system should be idle. Ban Screensavers!!

Where accumulated effects really DO addup . . some are rather not practacal or usefull . . (example you could "help save the environment" by killing all domestic cows off or making it a law where everyone had to hold in there "farts" . that gass is nasty . . bolth would have large and meaningfull effects . . just not very practacal/usefull/possable)
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
I've never heard of this before now, but it sounds like a psugar question.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Could we pretty please have a 1 - 5 microsecond sleep in the main loop? This will stop the thing from consuming 100% CPU resources and should not impact the gameplay. It will reduce power usage and help save the environment (as well as our computers; running cooler = longer life).


The amount of befite to the envroment would be negigable and a waste of time/resorses to do. Just dont drive for a day and you'll problably have saved what you would if you let sins go for a year. As for saving your comps thats utter rubish. AS long as its not oc'ed it will last as long as its going to last if its at 100% 24/7 or if its 50% 24/7. Ask intel or amd how long the chips last. But either way its at least 5 to 10 years, longer then most of us have a comp or i sure do hope.
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
Ask intel or amd how long the chips last. But either way its at least 5 to 10 years, longer then most of us have a comp or i sure do hope


./shudder, my bosses "old" computer broke down after 7 years of use before they threw in the towel on it. Admittedly, thats a work rather than game computer, but still.
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
Ask intel or amd how long the chips last. But either way its at least 5 to 10 years, longer then most of us have a comp or i sure do hope


./shudder, my bosses "old" computer broke down after 7 years of use before they threw in the towel on it. Admittedly, thats a work rather than game computer, but still.


The most damage through normal use on a processer is the cycle of heating and cooling. as when you turn them on and off. But either way as to how long processor can run for i really dont know how long it takes for a proccessor do degrade past a point they wont work. Most of us dont really care as if they have lasted that long they are too dated to be of much use. Heck even very oc'ed processors wont fail in that amount of time. They say heavyly oc'ed processors it might reduce the life time by about 25% or so but truly no one knows. Tho the more MHZ out of a chip the shorter its life will be.