Let's address some arguments from a technical perspective. (For the record though, Mark, I still haven't changed my stance that it was extremely petty of you to do that) To be quite honest, I think you're going to have far more serious issues with heat problems on your system running Fallout 4 than you ever will running Mark's shenanigan here, especially since it can only consume one core anyway. While you can make a serious case that for example, even someone like me, refuses to run GZDoom this way (I like quiet systems without the fans kicking up to max), that's not to say the system can't handle it - and even so, GZDoom is in an unresposive state well before any serious overheating issues kick in, and Windows is already asking you by that time if you want to kill the process before any even theoretical damage can be done.Įven if heating becomes a serious issue, both processor sets are designed to lower their voltage and power consumption when heat creep kicks in in order to stem damage - in fact, shutting themselves down is really a worst-case scenario that almost never occurs except in the most poorly designed or poorly maintained systems.

And people run this way constantly all the time with no issue.

(*shivers!*)Įven so, removing the frame rate cap and vsync on GZDoom will send either your GPU or CPU to 100% anyway - whichever bottlenecks first (depending on the system). Before that, we didn't even rely on the HALT CPU instructions, we just put things in idle loops. In fact, 'Energy Star' really did not become a thing until well after the original IBM PC-XT came out. Back in the 80's and 90's machines were literally designed to run at 100% CPU speed constantly. However, I think your argument is really hyperbolic. It's not cool, but that's as far as my condemnation goes with him, at least as far as this incident is concerned. I will agree that what Mark did was fairly petty and I already called him out for it.

I already conceded that maybe Mark shouldn't face punishment on this forum since he didn't break any of its rules but you can't seriously tell me that this is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Insta-kill the player, make the enemies immortal, make Doom Guy's head laugh at you, you don't have to do something that legit can cause software/hardware issues with someone's computer. You're making the assumption that everyone's situation is the same, what if it brings someone's machine to the breaking point and it crashes? What if they were doing something important in the background? You can claim these are rare situations and that it isn't reasonable to assume they'll happen but maybe you shouldn't go out of your way to potentially force it just because you want to get some payback at the devs of Project Brutality.

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