What if you had a piece of software stealing some performance.

[nhentai.net]

Lets say theoretically, every game you boot up had a hidden software running in the background that stole some computing power away from the game you are running, approximately 10 to 20 fps. Would you prefer to have that software still running?

[nhentai.net]

It could be drm, it could be something else.
Would you want that software knowing you can improve performance turning it off. Thats what Im asking. Not your opinion on drm.

[Magma Dragoon]

could this mystery program figure out which hentai your avatar is from with all the stolen computing power?

[nhentai.net]

Originally posted by nullable:

Originally posted by PiKKUMi:

It could be drm, it could be something else.
Would you want that software knowing you can improve performance turning it off. Thats what Im asking. Not your opinion on drm.

Doubling down on a loaded question isn't the genius strategy you think it is. And when being challenged over your antics, being cagey isn't the 4D chess move you think it is either.

All you're doing is engaging in one of the most common forms of confirmation bias. And if you're gonna do that just tell yourself most people agree with you and skip making pointless noise.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ all Im asking is if you could gain 10 - 20 fps for fkin free just by simply turning off a setting, would you. Not some psychoanalysis on the human mind.

[Fake]

Originally posted by PiKKUMi:

Originally posted by nullable:

Doubling down on a loaded question isn't the genius strategy you think it is. And when being challenged over your antics, being cagey isn't the 4D chess move you think it is either.

All you're doing is engaging in one of the most common forms of confirmation bias. And if you're gonna do that just tell yourself most people agree with you and skip making pointless noise.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ all Im asking is if you could gain 10 - 20 fps for fkin free just by simply turning off a setting, would you. Not some psychoanalysis on the human mind.

Turn off RTX. Problem solved.

[Illusion of Progress]

Originally posted by PiKKUMi:

Lets say theoretically, every game you boot up had a hidden software running in the background that stole some computing power away from the game you are running, approximately 10 to 20 fps. Would you prefer to have that software still running?

I hate to be pedantic, but software doesn't "steal" computing resources. It uses them. Your CPU is more serial than parallel (per core) in the sense that it can only do one thing at a given "time" but it can do it unbelievably fast that in our terms of time, it can often do multiple things at "once". What you're asking is if you were running a given software that might use a lot of CPU time along with something else that also needed a lot at the same time, to the point it reduced performance of the first.

There's a lot of things to address.

Upgrading your CPU if you're not getting the performance you desire and the CPU is the limitation is the first that comes to mind.

On the other hand, what is this particular software though? Why is it hidden, and why is it necessary if it's separate? Why for every game? The thought didn't even occur to me that you might be asking about DRM until I started reading replies, but I somewhat agree with nullable if you're asking about that through a loaded question. If you're not asking about this, it should be rather apparent that the question of "would you rather have more performance or less" has a rather predictable answer. You don't need to ask it.

If you're asking about DRM, it doesn't consistently cost 10 FPS to 20 FPS. I'm a bit out of my league on DRM and how it works and all that, but to my understanding, it doesn't "wrap" the entire game like that. It's not a separate thing. It does checks at given times and these will vary depending on how the developer implemented it. These might manifest as a stutters more than a consistent frame rate cost, but there's a LOT that can cause those in modern games (no pre-compiled shaders in UE4 games, sudden swing in demand, etc., etc.) and there's no way one can argue a given implementation of it will always be the cause and always result in it. What if a given moment a check is run is one that is unlikely to be CPU limited to begin with? It's a non-issue then.

[IWUZHERE]

Don't say it.... [i.ytimg.com]

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

but microsoft needs that telemetry about what you just watched on yt

[MoonC A T]

Originally posted by PiKKUMi:

Originally posted by nullable:

Doubling down on a loaded question isn't the genius strategy you think it is. And when being challenged over your antics, being cagey isn't the 4D chess move you think it is either.

All you're doing is engaging in one of the most common forms of confirmation bias. And if you're gonna do that just tell yourself most people agree with you and skip making pointless noise.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ all Im asking is if you could gain 10 - 20 fps for fkin free just by simply turning off a setting, would you. Not some psychoanalysis on the human mind.

Why the subterfuge, just say what's on your mind. You suck at passive aggression.