CPU temperature

[SilverWarior]

Nope.
HD 3000 is just that wimpy.

Can't comment on other games but I do know that Factorio is CPU heavy game that actually supports mutit-hreading and thus can fully utilize both of your CPU cores. Having bigger base in Factorio can cause FPS drop even on my Acer Aspire 6530 laptop with 2 Core AMD Athlon processor since it maxes out both CPU cores. At the same time dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3200 graphics card never even reaches toward full utilization. And yes this is laptop that is actually capable of running original Crysis albeit on minimal settings.

Any way when was the last time you tried playing Factorio on your laptop?
Factoprio developers managed to do some huge optimizations of the game before its full release like optimized belt simulation, optimized robotic path-finding and simulation, massively optimized biter path-finding, redesigned pipe fluid simulation, masive path-finding, collision detection and overall simulation of trains and much more.
They even managed to make some improvements of rendering pipeline and thus improving performance even on low end computers with integrated graphic cards.

Any way in order to see if your computer is CPU or GPU bound I would recommend using tools like Process Explorer (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sy...ocess-explorer) that can monitor your system utilization in real time. This was most used application on my laptop since it allowed me to track down any background processed that could hog down my computer. Not to mention that with its help I managed to adjust graphics settings of individual games to the point where neither my CPU or GPU would be fully utilized.

[Jonax]

I had no idea what the 'package temperature' was. Nice to have an idea about that now.


I can add that what I call CPU temperature is actually from Core 1. I got 4 cores but so far they've all shown the same value when I check so I simplified things by just logging Core 1.


CPU vs GPU constrained:


For my part the GPU is mostly not a problem. I don't play modern games and the games I make are 2D and not very demanding for the hardware.


Most of the time the integrated graphics is enough for me. First time I noticed a GPU limit at all was like 5 years ago when the monitor crashed and I bought a larger one. Then the old J1900 integrated graphics turned out to be inadequate for watching movies. That was one big motivation to buy a newer PC and then I got a J 5005 pentium and just recently also the latest Pentium dedicated for Linux.


My programming project. I'm dabbling with yet a Linux mini game with short playtime and low hardware demands. Working title:


"Vesta forever"


I hope to be able to present a beta any week now. Then looking forward to feedback from the community for further polishing..