![]() ![]() Most AAA studios don't bother either for the same reason. Originally posted by Joreel:Demos are expensive to make and take away from the final product which is why 99% of indie developers don't use them. steam HAS a demo system in place, and devs not using it is just idiotic, unless they are TRYING to trick customers to play past the refund period and get stuck with a game they dont want. but 2 hours is not enough time to get to know a game, and the refund system is not a demo system. it could be that the game runs amazingly on my system as opposed to the chug fest that some people say it is (i tend to have better results than most for some reason with game performance). it could have clunky controls that once i get used to them, are second nature and looking at the control scheme just seems odd. Movement is completely fine to me now.Maybe im just used to it idk.įair to want a demo though.Still no reason to just trash on a game without having played it at all. Its changed a good bit since launch, I absolutely love this game.But its not for everyone and thats fine. It was rough at start, but these devs are the hardest working devs I have ever seen. Originally posted by thedeadmanshow87:Ive been playing this game since the very minute it released. ![]() the demos already there, it just needs a script to end gameplay at some point. i dont know where you get the idea that only giving the player access to the very start of the game, to give them a feel for what it is, would actually cost anything. it costs almost nothing to script a "game over, hope you liked the demo" screen at say the end of the first boss, with nothing that wouldnt already be loaded normally past that point included so as to make it a smallish download and no chance of hex editing your way into the main game. Demos are expensive to make and take away from the final product which is why 99% of indie developers don't use them. its insane that people do, as this reeks of some shady dev acting under a pseudonym type setup. Originally posted by Chad "The King" ThunderCuck:seriously, im not about to throw any amount of money at a dev team i cant find any information about and has never produced anything at all before, without a demo. ![]()
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In my example this would allow the exhaust fan to spin up if either CPU or GPU are under load while the front fans still primarily serve the components closest to them. Ideally fans would have a curve for each sensor in the system, choosing the highest RPM any curve currently demands. Still, I would prefer being able to actively cool those components if they needed it. Load on those tends to coincide with at least a moderate CPU load so its not that big of a concern in practice. There are also a few other components like Voltage regulators or NVME SSDs in the system that could potentially need cooling. My only option right now to improve the situation for the GPU would be to control the exhaust fan over the case temperature as well, negatively impacting the airflow under heavy CPU loads. This leads to rather suboptimal airflow where the intake fan has to build up pressure to force hot air out of the case, ultimately hurting performance. The exhaust fan however is not spinning, since its coupled to the CPU. Triggered by the rise in ambient temperature, the bottom case fan starts blowing cool air at the Graphics card. When the GPU heats up, its fans start dumping hot air into the case. Air gets pulled in from the front, passes the CPU cooler and gets exhausted in the back. This works well in a scenario with high load on the CPU. The bottom front case fan is set to be controlled by a temperature sensor on the main board. The top front and back fans are set to ramp up with rising CPU temperatures since they are closest to the socket. The top front case fan is set to idle at low RPM, all other fans are stopped in idle. my current setup is that the CPU and GPU fans are controlled by their respective on-die sensors. 2 Intake fans in the front, 1 exhaust at the back. CPU and Graphics card in their normal places. Let me add my two cents to this, describe why this isn't some niche problem, my Ideas on how to solve it and why, despite all of this, I'm not sure adding this feature to fancontrol would even be desirable, even if somebody was willing to spend the time building it: If you want it, implement it, submit a patch. ![]() Which does not seem to include mine (AMD Ryzen 7 3700X). Oh, this also leaves systems with per-core temps available. ![]() This leaves two cases where clearly there would be benefit: 1) water cooling systems where one loop cools both CPU and GPU, without a temperature sensor for the water, and 2) motherboards with multiple CPU sockets that don't have a separately controllable fan header for each? And they're just not relevant enough to my life for me to do that work. And I think it has no actual benefit over basing case fan speed on motherboard temperature (for me, the value of SYSTIN from /usr/bin/sensors, and temp1_input in the directory where /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon1/name contains "nct6798"). But when my case fan speeds are based directly on my CPU temperature, they audibly fluctuate more annoyingly. Initially I thought it would be great to change the speed of my case fans based on the temperatures of both my CPU and GPU. And maybe this helps explain why nobody else has done it. I was thinking about working on this problem, and I think I have decided not to, due to a shortage of use cases. (I am not involved in this project, this is not an official response.) ![]() |
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