Disabling persistent UI for OLED friendly gaming.

[taak]

Is there any way to turn off the persistent UI, since OLEDs are prone to burn in?

[zaphodikus]

Most oled's take longer than 9 hours to even begin to burn in. If it takes you longer to play the game, then there is a problem with your machine.

[taak]

I quite enjoy your over-generalisation and pulling numbers out of your ass, but nothing resembling the answer to my question, sadly.

[zaphodikus]

I finished the game in under 11 hours. You are talking about the HUB/button bar bottom of screen I take it? I've not seen many games that let you do that, not sure what problems that would create, unless auto-hiding was implemented?
You must have a different kind of oled, or actually a display that is not the kind of OLED the majority of people at home, have which will start to hurt red pixels after only about 1000 hours.

I completely did not mean to offend or illicit any joy, but if you take offence or joy, then it's not me giving it. I'm a forking engineer, I state facts, sometimes they are wrong too, more than 73.46% of the time people don't like facts either. That never stops me from stating them, so take or leave it. I'm not offended when people don't accept my facts, because as we all know, everyone has their own unique life experiences, and that is actually a good thing. To be honest, I'd really like to know why you worry about burnout quite so much. It might inform my lived experience. I'm also pretty sure that it's possible to compensate for this problem though somehow if we get a grip on the problem scale and severity.

Here are as few happy cats so long though.

[taak]

I asked whether the UI can bi disabled or not, you wrote an essay not answering my question, so you're just wasting my and your time. Just not gonna buy the game. Buy the dev a beer, since you cost him a customer.

[zaphodikus]

It's a bit early in the day for here.
FACTS:
1. You posted a question to which you know that the answer is no, because you googled it already at length
1. I'm still worried about how worried about burn in, anyone with your model of OLED is. OLEDS are great screens and people love them and don't stress
3. The only person who bothers to say hi causes a storm. I have actually cost nobody anything, I pay my way, check my reviews.

I reflected on your question a bit, my OLED TV turns off automatically at night, so I've never worried about burn in. Never - mostly, much more I do worry that my TV turns itself on at odd times at night sometimes, possibly due to it being near a similar appliance in the house next door. its frustrating because it's too intermittent to actually debug the cause.

As an engineer I have found that sometimes, just sometimes, there is a non-factory "not for the other use" way of accomplishing a desired outcome that a manufactured did not intend. If that's not an avenue that might remotely work for you @taak, then that's a real pity. My unique life experience was clearly too optimistic here. I was going to go and try to find a tool for you, but I'm a grumpy old ♥♥♥♥ (yes I am far grumpier than most people,) so wondering if it's worth it. But since I'm about empathy this week as it is mental health awareness week. [ulr=https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week]UK Mental Health Awareness Week (Lonieliness)[/ulr] ...and I'm waiting for the real question to be answered. No point in going to hunt for a tool if the person wanting help does not really want the same kind of help I'm trying to assemble in the shed.

[Krusbert]

Цитата допису taak:

Is there any way to turn off the persistent UI, since OLEDs are prone to burn in?

To clarify for certain, no, there is no way to turn off the persistent UI.

[zaphodikus]

After a lot of searching, not able to find an overlay app, which was what I was hopeing for existing. Any idea when your next game will be out @Krusbert?

[Krusbert]

Цитата допису zaphodikus:

After a lot of searching, not able to find an overlay app, which was what I was hopeing for existing. Any idea when your next game will be out @Krusbert?

Not for a while, I'm afraid! We're still in pre-production, so our next game won't be out for several years.

[zaphodikus]

Best of luck building that. Really original storytelling with female power roles have been in short supply, and now I have found some I just want more.
Stay safe and toasty, cheers.