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After playing for < 10 minutes it started getting noticeably slower and my MBP Retina was spinning up its fans. I am using latest Chrome. Is this a sign that we
by sgt 8y ago
After playing for < 10 minutes it started getting noticeably slower and my MBP Retina was spinning up its fans. I am using latest Chrome. Is this a sign that web games are not yet ready - or simply that either the game isn't optimized enough or perhaps even that Chrome is a poor choice for browser games?
- sliken 8y agoMy desktop is a E5-1230 v5 (i7 class CPU from 2015) and I played for 15-20 minutes with no noticeable slow down or increase in fans. I was using chrome. I think your experience has more to do with laptops being much slower than desktops than anything do with how poor chrome is. As for "optimized enough", seems like the whole point was to put non-trivial physics in the game, and not to cheat.
- MrStonedOne 8y agoVery likely started thermal throttling because apple is notorious for not putting adequate cooling on their mac books. This game uses fluid dynamics calculated in real time, i don't think its designed to be super optimized but rather super true to physics. Most of the time game optimization involves cheaping some of the complex calculations to be less accurate but still "good enough" see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root for an example. In other words you'll run into this issue any time you do anything taxing for more than 10 minutes on a mac book.