With no save & exit, please add FPS limit when game is running in background option

[Sagan]

If we can't save & exit, please at least add this option so players can alt tab away from the game and not cook their GPU while they do something else. Without being able to save, people will just alt tab out of the game until they can come back, which could be hours, or even days if they forget, all while their GPU is running at 100%, basically a bitcoin miner that mines nothing.

Wouldn't be so bad if the game didn't max out GPU usage on even 4000 series cards, but without a FPS limit while in background, it's just a waste of energy and isn't good for the lifespan of your customer's video cards.

[pablo.vizzi]

Yeah, fully agree, but I prefer a save

[PREdaTOR]

Could try setting the "Background Application Max Frame Rate" setting in Nvidia control panel (3D Settings>Manage 3D Settings>Program Settings>Background Application Max Frame Rate) to 20fps. Either global or per application. Obviously only works if you have an Nvidia GPU :)
Note, I haven't tried this however I do use the global max frame rate setting for those games that like to cook GPUs and it works well.

[Druinthor]

You should ask back here when the game actually comes out to find out the behaviour. Dont worry about what the demo does.....

[rocketrefrigerator]

agree, im ok with no save game during travel, but limit FPS on background would be great option

[Cesar]

I press escape to pause the game. Don't know of that lowers cpu temp

[Bane882266]

Exit saves are a requirement of modern gaming.

[Sagan]

Originally posted by Cesar:

I press escape to pause the game. Don't know of that lowers cpu temp

It doesn't, it keeps running at 100% even when "paused", in the demo at least.

[BareNakedSlayer]

Do we know if the final game doesn't have save on exit or frame limits? Everyone played a demo of the game and is just assuming it's not gonna be in the game. If I made a game demo, I probably wouldn't bother with saves, it's not the main game, you need to buy the main game and I didn't see anywhere that it said progress would carry over.

[NONAME]

Originally posted by Sagan:

Wouldn't be so bad if the game didn't max out GPU usage on even 4000 series cards,

It doesn't.

4090 here. The game runs at 35c at 30% fan speed. That's below this gpus idle temps @ 0% fan.

[IndianaJones]

Originally posted by Sagan:

Originally posted by Cesar:

I press escape to pause the game. Don't know of that lowers cpu temp

It doesn't, it keeps running at 100% even when "paused", in the demo at least.

It doesn't pause the game. Pressing ESC only shows a new layer on screen with menus or inventory.

Demo has a build in "hack menu", where you can enable:
- no death,
- no player damage,
- (surprice surprice) allow pause in menus :D

All of these options will disable achievements.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3165448491
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3165448583

[esotericist]

Originally posted by Deadlock:

Originally posted by Sagan:

It doesn't, it keeps running at 100% even when "paused", in the demo at least.

It doesn't pause the game. Pressing ESC only shows a new layer on screen with menus or inventory.

when i hit start on the controller it 100% pauses the game in the current demo. i tested this with vehicle velocity and even jumping.

if there's a bug with keyboard controls that's something distinct from lacking pause.

[Voss]

No save is pretty bad for us that have stuff to do outside the gaming world.
And no pause thats just as bad...

[IndianaJones]

Originally posted by Sagan:

Wouldn't be so bad if the game didn't max out GPU usage on even 4000 series cards, but without a FPS limit while in background, it's just a waste of energy and isn't good for the lifespan of your customer's video cards.

Nvidia GPU driver has FPS limiter that can be set per process or for all games.
I use Nvidia GPU driver FPS cap all the time but for foreground process (normal gaming).
It works very well and most games support it. Very few games ignored FPS cap.

Not sure how the background FPS cap is working though, but the option is there in NV Control Panel.

I suggest to use MSI Afterburner and setup Thermal Limit to some reasonable value.

In case GPU get too hot it will start throttling down GPU to meet desired temperature.
This way your GPU won't work like crypto miner and break eventually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX0MxwT8uyI

[Sagan]

Originally posted by NONAME:

Originally posted by Sagan:

Wouldn't be so bad if the game didn't max out GPU usage on even 4000 series cards,

It doesn't.

4090 here. The game runs at 35c at 30% fan speed. That's below this gpus idle temps @ 0% fan.

My 4070Ti is runs it at 95-100% and maxes out clock and memory speeds and hits 68-70c

Originally posted by esotericist:

Originally posted by Deadlock:

It doesn't pause the game. Pressing ESC only shows a new layer on screen with menus or inventory.

when i hit start on the controller it 100% pauses the game in the current demo. i tested this with vehicle velocity and even jumping.

if there's a bug with keyboard controls that's something distinct from lacking pause.

I think what they mean is the game keeps running, all the graphics processing continues even when you pause. I just tested to make sure, when I go into pause menu my GPU usage only goes down by 5%, doesn't matter if I use controller or keyboard to pause.

[Sagan]

Originally posted by PREdaTOR:

Could try setting the "Background Application Max Frame Rate" setting in Nvidia control panel (3D Settings>Manage 3D Settings>Program Settings>Background Application Max Frame Rate) to 20fps. Either global or per application. Obviously only works if you have an Nvidia GPU :)
Note, I haven't tried this however I do use the global max frame rate setting for those games that like to cook GPUs and it works well.

I just messed around with this and it pretty much does the trick. Seems kind of finicky, though. I use 2 monitors, if I alt tab to another window on 2nd monitor but the game is still running on main monitor, there's no drop in GPU usage. But if I move a window over the top of the game, GPU usage drops by 50%. Thanks for suggesting this, had no idea that setting existed.