Half life doesnt make my gfx card hot... is it being used?

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Hi folks.

When playing Doom 3 (or at least, playing it until I got bored of it, about half way through), I
noticed my 9800 pro getting very hot (I have an arctic cooler that vents out of the back, and you
can get a very good impression of how hard the GPU is working from this). It also does it in
Pacific fighters.

If I am playing half life 2 or Vampire Masquerade, the card never gets much hotter than idle, and I
can overclock it to mad levels without 'sparkling' pixel dots. This all points to the fact that
either the Source engine is highly optimized, or it just doesnt use many processor intensive
effects.

Wonder if anyone else has seen this? Seems to me that the limiting factor may be memory (Main and
onboard-gfx) and/or a well configured set of drivers, because my gfx card certainly doesnt feel as
if it is being tasked unless I go to mad resolutions. All that stuff about upgrading your card just
doesnt seem relevent for Source. If only they could fix that glitching though (Ive reduced it
with -heapsize but not eradicated it on either Source game)

S

 

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The graphics in HL2, if you look closely, isn't really better than Far
Cry's. So go ahead and crank up resolution and turn on FSAA. Just as well,
because the game uses crisp textures and bright colors (unlike Doom3), the
"jaggies" can be pretty noticeable without FSAA.

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"Sham B" <replytothislist@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi folks.
>
> When playing Doom 3 (or at least, playing it until I got bored of it,
about half way through), I
> noticed my 9800 pro getting very hot (I have an arctic cooler that vents
out of the back, and you
> can get a very good impression of how hard the GPU is working from this).
It also does it in
> Pacific fighters.
>
> If I am playing half life 2 or Vampire Masquerade, the card never gets
much hotter than idle, and I
> can overclock it to mad levels without 'sparkling' pixel dots. This all
points to the fact that
> either the Source engine is highly optimized, or it just doesnt use many
processor intensive
> effects.
>
> Wonder if anyone else has seen this? Seems to me that the limiting factor
may be memory (Main and
> onboard-gfx) and/or a well configured set of drivers, because my gfx card
certainly doesnt feel as
> if it is being tasked unless I go to mad resolutions. All that stuff about
upgrading your card just
> doesnt seem relevent for Source. If only they could fix that glitching
though (Ive reduced it
> with -heapsize but not eradicated it on either Source game)
>
> S
>
>

 

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If you want to make your card hot, just stop that little spinning thing on
the card. It won't take long for it to reach a temperature you will be
satisfied with.......


"Sham B" <replytothislist@nomail.com> wrote in message
news:41b31cc7$0$24191$afc38c87@auth.uk.news.easynet.net...
> Hi folks.
>
> When playing Doom 3 (or at least, playing it until I got bored of it,
> about half way through), I noticed my 9800 pro getting very hot (I have an
> arctic cooler that vents out of the back, and you can get a very good
> impression of how hard the GPU is working from this). It also does it in
> Pacific fighters.
>
> If I am playing half life 2 or Vampire Masquerade, the card never gets
> much hotter than idle, and I can overclock it to mad levels without
> 'sparkling' pixel dots. This all points to the fact that either the Source
> engine is highly optimized, or it just doesnt use many processor intensive
> effects.
>
> Wonder if anyone else has seen this? Seems to me that the limiting factor
> may be memory (Main and onboard-gfx) and/or a well configured set of
> drivers, because my gfx card certainly doesnt feel as if it is being
> tasked unless I go to mad resolutions. All that stuff about upgrading your
> card just doesnt seem relevent for Source. If only they could fix that
> glitching though (Ive reduced it with -heapsize but not eradicated it on
> either Source game)
>
> S
>