r/Steam • u/Haunter777x • 13h ago

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How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

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u/sheepie247 13h ago

I deadass was just thinking this 'cause I never do. 

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u/robloextem 12h ago

you should be shutting down your computer every few days at bare minimum but yeah a few seconds to launch isnt the flex they think it is even if it didnt just.... lose most of its already barbecues features

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u/pencilinatophat 12h ago

people don't shut their PC down overnight? hell, I get worried just doing an overnight download

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u/robloextem 12h ago

yeah, me as well, but ive seen so many people casually talk about never shutting their computers off. it just fries their computer to do it but its seemingly not common knowledge

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u/Achaern 11h ago

Leaving a PC running forever is just fine as long as the cooling is well installed and thought through. There is no harm in leaving a PC running indefinitely.

Shut down your laptops. Do whatever you want with your desktops.

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u/DrAstralis 10h ago

This. I leave mine on all the time, the only hardware to ever fail in over 25 years of PC gaming was the vram getting unstable on my 1080ti because some indie game thought it would be funny to let its menu push a few thousand fps through it while I was making lunch. And even then I was OCing the GPU and it wasn't dead, I just undervolted it and put in the media center.

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u/Achaern 10h ago

I had that same thing happen on my 3080ti. I ran a fun little indie game, fans to max, 420W draw, 3000FPS on the main menu, temps sitting at 85ºC.

I have a system wide frame limiter now and it cannot go above 142 FPS (144hz panel)

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u/DrAstralis 8h ago

exactly the same on my end. I learned my lesson. Nvidia drivers locked to max 142 for gsync stuff. I've also had amazing results under volting the 3080, shaved 15 deg off its operating temps and if anything the frames are more stable, maybe reducing throttling? admittedly I haven't looked into it yet lol.

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u/Achaern 7h ago

Yes, that's exactly it. The GPU had hard throttle for those chips, so at 69º you get full speed, but it'll clock down a bit at 70º and increasingly so. I undervolted my 3080ti and my 3080 for seriously smooth frametimes, lower temps and power draw and an overall better experience. It's worth the very occasional crash.

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u/UntimelyMeditations 9h ago

Yeah, I've been leaving my personal desktops on ever since I started building them. Weeks/months worth of uptime is super common for me. And in that time, I've never had a component fail on me.