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Real Environment Concerns

July 31, 2007 5:06:53 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

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 July 31, 2007 5:29:48 PM
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whaaaa...?

sorry went straight past me...say again?
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Reply #2 July 31, 2007 5:52:17 PM
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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...

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Reply #3 July 31, 2007 6:04:44 PM
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ermmm multi post? thanks for explanation, I think I got it the third time round
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Reply #4 July 31, 2007 6:15:18 PM
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damn the forums!!!!! yeah my browser hung up as it was saving my post, and that is what happened...
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Reply #5 August 1, 2007 10:04:49 AM
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Cleaning up your mess again, lordkosc....
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Reply #6 August 1, 2007 10:11:11 AM
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*evil eyes*

Thanks...
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Reply #7 August 1, 2007 11:04:14 AM
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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)
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Reply #8 August 1, 2007 4:21:19 PM
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I've never heard of this before now, but it sounds like a psugar question.
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Reply #9 August 1, 2007 5:13:07 PM
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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).


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.
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Reply #10 August 1, 2007 11:34:34 PM
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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.
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Reply #11 August 2, 2007 1:30:02 AM
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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.
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