Gaming on lower resolution because electricity prices are high.
Gaming on lower resolution because it removes obstacles and gives a tactical advantage.

[-] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 24 points 7 months ago

Gaming on a new GPU because it's faster
Gaming on an old GPU because it's VRAM is dying and sometimes the walls disappear

[-] windowsphoneguy@feddit.de 22 points 7 months ago

Just set a frame limit

[-] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

It ticks me off when i see twitch streamers with the fps displayed and its running at 300+ fps. What a waste of electricity, money and hardware.

[-] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 7 months ago

Eh, more frames means better latency, but up to what point it still makes sense is a whole other story.

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[-] Chriswild@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Not only does this reduce GPU power usage but CPU as well.

[-] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Already set. I'm not that competitive player and my reflexes are worse than a sloth's. So I didn't even bother to buy a higher refresh rate monitor than 60.

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[-] sploosh@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

My 7800xt pulls about 230 watts at full bore, giving me my monitor's refresh rate in FPS, 144. Limiting the framerate to 72 results in no tearing and drops the GPU watts to 170. Worth it.

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Halving your frame rate is worth approximately a cent an hour?

[-] huginn@feddit.it 9 points 7 months ago

Just consider! If you're gaming 80 hours a week you could save $3.50 off your monthly bill. 12 hours a day gaming, such savings!

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

I mean for those of us who don't need anything higher than 60, yeah

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The comment I was replying to had a 144hz monitor

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, I read that comment. They also said it was worth reducing the frame rate to save 60 watts

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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Retro gaming... Low res... CRT filter with the warped edges and blooooooom effects... this is the ideal way to play your SNES games. Try it with Super Metroid, that shit is straight up unnerving and beautiful.

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[-] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 4 points 7 months ago

Nice cucumber you got there.

[-] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

*drooling*

[-] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 7 months ago

I have a Watt-Meter right on my PC plug next to my monitor so I can always see how much I consume. It's crazy how much the monitors alone take up, it's kind 40 KW/h each. I'm considering removing one of them.

[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago

Do you mean kW or kWh?

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

Neither hopefully. The former at least is a unit of power, but 40 kW is enough to heat up a whole apartment building.

In reality a large and older monitor might use a couple hundred watts. A small modern 24" will probably use closer to 50 W (guesstimating), which is still a decent chunk of the power draw of a budget build.

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[-] Hootz@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago

This is why I do love that my PC is powered by renewable energy. It blows my mind how expensive power is everywhere else, plus I don't wanna game if it means I gotta roll coal like huge parts of the world.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Quebec / BC moment

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

I game on lower resolution because a lot of modern games are too hyper detailed for me and I get lost in the crisp information density. That and I hate the sound of computer fans

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

I get lost in the crisp information density.

Man you're gonna hate this thing called the real world. I hear the pixels are mere nanometers across

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

That's the crisp part. A lot of modern games seem to be obsessed with making every single pixel pop out at you. Rummaging around outside is not like that it's softer. A real world comparison would be something like malls which are obsessed with making every inch of visible space distinctly pop. I also hate being in malls

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Oh like too saturated and colorful. Yeah I get that

[-] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I've been replaying FFXIV recently and I had the game running at the maximum refresh rate of my monitor and it was making the fans run harder. it took me way too long to realise that I should just go a setting down for refresh rate instead of altering fan speeds.

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[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Gaming on lower resolution because 480p just feels like home.

[-] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

But seriously though, I cut off a good 30-40% from my GPUs power limit and would you look at that, I still enjoy the games I play.

Have to run most of them at low to medium settings anyway, so might as well.

Only thing left to improve it further would be undervolting, I should try that at some point.

[-] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Undervolt it too. Depending on what GPU you have, you might drop an additional 20-40% without a performance hit. An older GTX1070 I used to have dropped power consumption by 40%. The energy savings weren't that big, but it was nice and quiet

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[-] Jourei@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Games that drop framerate when game loses focus are fun. Something like Wurm or RS don't need fancier framerate when I'm not even looking!