Hidden Crypto Miner?

[Kiragami]

What part of this game requires 10% of a i9-9900k? Or 10-15% of a GTX 1080Ti?
Lmao I don't get it, outside of a hidden crypto miner.

[Kiragami]

Originally posted by Basicball:

I'm playing this on my crap ass laptop that won't run things like rocket league, hearthstone, ...
I played it a few months ago on a phone that costed me 50 bucks brand new

Just trying to confirm if it really is.

Having a crypto miner doesn't mean a crap ass laptop can't run it, those can be set to use 10% of the users CPU/GPU regardless of how crap/powerful your cards are.

[76561198419728601]

Inefficient game code, memory leak, resource monitor incorrect on your end are some possibilities I can think of. If u want to perform a little experiment to test inefficient code let the game run while u kill mobs but don't collect drops for 15 min, then check to see how much cpu is being used. i know my computer lags from all the drops if i do this. if you're exceptionally paranoid (not necessarily a bad trait) set an autoclicker to click on the screen every few seconds to fake user activity.

The resource monitor being incorrect i mention because i've been running at 100% cpu for the past few years since the first day i used this machine regardless of what i have open.

[Kiragami]

Originally posted by tomjoadoldroad:

Inefficient game code, memory leak, resource monitor incorrect on your end are some possibilities I can think of. If u want to perform a little experiment to test inefficient code let the game run while u kill mobs but don't collect drops for 15 min, then check to see how much cpu is being used. i know my computer lags from all the drops if i do this. if you're exceptionally paranoid (not necessarily a bad trait) set an autoclicker to click on the screen every few seconds to fake user activity.

The resource monitor being incorrect i mention because i've been running at 100% cpu for the past few years since the first day i used this machine regardless of what i have open.

Yeah maybe those could be things too. I just started the game, even during tutorial, starting village, and the first zone without other players... That was my average usage for CPU/GPU.

Just feels too high for an idle game that looks like this. My specs aren't high, but definitely not low enough to have such high usage...

[Flop]

If you look at your tasks you will see "CrBrowserMain" and "CrRenderMain", meaning Chromium Browser.
The game uses Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) and both the framework itself and the game's usage lacks optimization.

CEF compiles to MacOS and Linux, no idea why the game is Windows only though

[LavaFlame2]

I use a really old coding language. I was never really meant to make games, let along one like IdleOn (still to this day I have 0 formal coding education, and majored in a field outside of coding/computer science), so I still use the language I learned for fun when i was like 13. Most of it is drag-n-drop code blocks*.

It gets the job done, and is good enough to make a fun idle game, but it is inefficient in various ways to put it simply. Hence the resource hogging.

Trust me, no one crooked enough to make crypto miners has enough creative integrity to make a game like IdleOn, it wouldn't be worth it for them.

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*Note to any kids reading, this doesn't mean that the game doesnt have 'real' code. The code is just as real as any other coding language, its just that most professional coders prefer text-based coding, and thats understandably the social norm