5 replies to this topic

[Recon777]

I have a temperature widget on my desktop that keeps me informed about my video card temperature. I happened to glance at it and notice my GTX 460 was running at 63 degrees C! I wasn't in game or anything. The MWO client was running, and sitting on the "Home" page not doing anything. Holy cow! So I switched it off and the temperature immediately dropped down to 38.

What the heck, PGI? Why does the MWO client run video cards at full blast even when the game's not running? There's no reason at all to require a GPU to be running like that when you're sitting in a menu not doing anything.

[scJazz]

Because the interface is actually written using a Cross Platform GUI Tool known as ScaleForm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleform

Which as you can see is Flash based in essence.

[Tarl Cabot]

Hit F9. What is the FPS running at?

Do take into consideration that many players have reported that their fans are not kicking in at a timely manner. Suggest using MSI Afterburner or comparable software to have more control over fans.

Others will enable Vsync or set max FPS in user.cfg, or setting options to windowed/full windowed mode instead of full screen.

[Aym]

It's a known issue, hopefully UI 2.0 will help that.

[Hellen Wheels]

I leave that page up all the time, doesn't heat mine up like that.

[Syllogy]

UI 1.5 (what we have now) was the second attempt by PGI to create the UI, because it was a new engine that they hadn't worked with before.

UI 2.0 is built from the ground up, instead of built on top of UI 1.5, so many of the problems that UI 1.5 suffers from will not be present in UI 2.0.

Edited by Syllogy, 23 September 2013 - 11:05 AM.