Playing a fireplace video produces real heat.
I guess if you disable the computer’s fan, yes.
Greetings fellow time-traveler. What model of entropy-reversing computer fan do you use?
Do they use more than dark places in video games? Like if you are in dark room in the game, and you turn on a lamp in the game, are you using more electricity?
My guess is no but I am not a programmer or electrician nor a physicist.
if you have an oled display, then if a video game is brighter it costs more energy because the LEDs turn on more.
if have an lcd display, there’s a backlight that always has the same brightness and crystals blocking the light, which makes the image. meaning a brighter scene doesn’t take more power, since the backlight doesn’t use more energy.
On an LCD display, the backlight is always on but the crystals need power to align and let the backlight through.
A full white screen would in theory use more electricity than a full black screen. How much more, I don’t actually know but I would like to know more info in it.
If the light is not dynamic at all, no. If it has stuff like dynamic shadows it will require more processing power to render frames than if the light was off, which probably makes the CPU/GPU draw slightly more power
I’d guess if you have an OLED panel it would because black pixels are ‘off’ it would consume somewhat of more electricity but I do not know
somebody said this at work yesterday, and now it’s here
Did you know that characters in video games have an electrical current to keep them alive just like real people?
Wait, video games use electricity?
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If you’re using an older LCD screen, turning off the lamp uses more electricity than leaving it on
Mind blow
Lamps in video games aren’t real. It’s the video game that’s using the electricity.
That’s like saying “lamps don’t create light, it’s the flame/filament in the lamp that creates the light”
The lamp is rendered by small electric lights, be it LEDs or LCD. CRTs are in a bit of an grey area. But you can absolutely use a monitor as a light source by itself .
Video games aren’t real. It’s the computer components that use electricity
computer components aren’t real. It’s all just tiny gremlins doing maths really fast and turning pixels on and off
Tiny gremlins aren’t real. It’s all just a dream. Wake up you have to make me breakfast. I would like pancakes please.
Babe wake up I want pancakes
Pancakes aren’t……
No…. pancakes are real. And they’re perfect.
So an oil lamp in a video game is actually an electric lamp?
Shades in video games use even more electricity
Not on OLED screens + prebaked lightning
That’s too specific conditions, but okay :)
not that specific. most modern displays are oled, and most efficient games use prebaked lighting. the average gamer probably plays on an oled display, and has a game with prebaked lighting.
You made a blanket statement. There are exceptions.
We should demand that they are oil lamps from now on to save the planet
Just make the player stumble in pitch black darkness through the entire game, duh.
Unless they are unloaded out of memory
So do stones in video games. And water.
You aren’t supposed to think about it
Nope. Only the screens do. Technically you could play a video game without a screen.
What is this mythical video game system that doesn’t use power itself?
