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Getting Riff-Raff as my first joker activates all my dopamine receptors.

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[–] lemmyman 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Slightly OT, but my laptop sounds like a jet engine when I play Balatro. It's a 2021 Precision 5650 (lightweight CAD workstation) with a Quattro GPU and integrated graphics. Power consumption roughly doubles and both my gpus are around ~40%. I have all settings to minimum.

Same thing with many other games I'd think would be not too demanding. Thronefall, polybridge 2, etc

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Enable vsync

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yep Turn on VSYNC becuase Balatro FPS goes up to 500 to 1000 FPS even on Potato LOL

[–] lemmyman 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip. I just looked and I have vsync on. On my desktop machine, it uses about 10% gpu with vsync on and 40% with vsync off. On my laptop, it's about 40% regardless of the setting.

C'est la vie

[–] lemmyman 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Update: turning on vsync in Nvidia control panel did the trick, now gpu is at ~10% on my laptop. Strange to me that it overrides the application settings but i guess I'm just getting out of touch with tech stuff

[–] lemmyman 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

One more update: I checked back later and vsync was off again. I had set it to "on" in Nvidia control panel, and after some time doing other things (not a reboot) I started Balatro and it was using a lot of GPU again - Nvidia control panel reverted to the "off" setting.

There are various reports of other utilities taking over vsync and other graphics settings (a big one is f.lux but I don't have thaty installed). I think that Dell Optimizer's "Applications" settings might have reset it, so I turned that function off (that is one difference between my Dell laptop and my homebuilt desktop). So far so good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Interesting. I guess their vsync implementation doesn't work on Nvidia GPUs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You should repaste your CPU. It will reduce heating.

[–] wasted_in_time 2 points 2 months ago

I would have imagine it could be played on a web browser.