Heat and hardware usage

[Emiliorth]

I know it's kinda natural, but I can clearly hear how my GPU fans spins faster when using even simple one wallpapers with Wallpaper Engine. Is it worth to use it and constantly exhaust PC?

[Weigor]

when running a maximized application or fullscreen one Wallpaper Engine will be paused, so maybe it's not constantly.It can be extreme if u adjust pause when other application focused, then it will only use ur GPU when u back to ur desktop.

[Mystix]

GPU's are made to be used.
If the GPU temperature is below 90 Celsius (some are rated to safely go higher even), then it's probably fine. On average most GPUs may run from 65C to 85C under load.

[Emiliorth]

Originally posted by Weigor:

when running a maximized application or fullscreen one Wallpaper Engine will be paused, so maybe it's not constantly.It can be extreme if u adjust pause when other application focused, then it will only use ur GPU when u back to ur desktop.

What do you mean by the last sentence? If I choose to pause during other applications beeing fullscreen, Wallpaper Engine should not use GPU, so it should free usage, am I right? =o

Originally posted by LoneWolfDon:

GPU's are made to be used.
If the GPU temperature is below 90 Celsius (some are rated to safely go higher even), then it's probably fine. On average most GPUs may run from 65C to 85C under load.

Well... true. When I had stationary PC and I had GeForce, I used everything freely on it, but now, having laptop with dedicated GeForce, I'm treating it like an egg, so maybe I should change my point of view with laptop usage.
Thanks for advice :)

[Biohazard]

If you are on a laptop with hybrid graphics, I think it should actually use your integrated GPU anyway, at least it configures a default profile to do so.

For 3D and web wallpapers you could also reduce the FPS setting (to 30, 20 or so), it has the biggest impact on how much performance Wallpaper Engine needs.

[Emiliorth]

Indeed, it uses integrated GPU. How I couldn't think about that earlier =)

Thank you very much for your advice. I appreciate engaging of Devs in community issues. Because you are Dev, right? :D Don't know what exactly means green nick with yellow [author] on forum.