I completely agree with this article. If there is one thing I hate it is a program which makes my laptop's CPU fan start whirring like a jet engine. Usually w

I completely agree with this article. If there is one thing I hate it is a program which makes my laptop's CPU fan start whirring like a jet engine. Usually with games this is because developers didn't properly program a FPS limiter, or else the game just uses a lot of alpha blending and graphical effects. However, with modern processors just because they are fast that doesn't mean that programmers have to max out the processor and make it heat up. For example, I wrote an article a while back about how I increased performance in a 2D game and brought processor usage from 99% to 35% using a few graphical tricks such as trying to do alpha blending during the load (precalculated) rather than while rendering each frame: http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2009/08/sdl-tile-game-with-soft-shadows.html http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2009/08/sdl-tile-game-w...