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    Angry Birds really heats up my Z.

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by travfar, Feb 4, 2011.

  1. travfar

    travfar Notebook Evangelist

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    I've been playing AB on my Z of late. Even under stamina, it really heats up my Z. I'm staring at the task manager and it's lot really taxing the CPU.
     
    travfar, Feb 4, 2011
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  2. Achusaysblessyou

    Achusaysblessyou eecs geek ftw :D

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    Are you running it under windowed mode? Have you maybe tried capping your CPU at 99% under advanced power settings on uhh advanced power settings (to stop ur proc from turboing?). Hmm I never noticed it taking up a fair amount of CPU since i would always connect it to my 25" ext. monitor and i always assumed it was my gpu acting up... but I just ran it now and it added about 30% more cpu usage... this is weird... it runs on my n900 perfectly... even at stock 600mhz... I guess it just isn't optimized?

    (p.s. did you get it through SD? :D)
     
    Achusaysblessyou, Feb 4, 2011
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  3. gdansk

    gdansk Notebook Deity

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    That is odd, perhaps the game has a busy wait? That'd be weird.
     
    gdansk, Feb 4, 2011
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