This thread is not about crafting or the in-game cooking - it is about my CPU cooking when playing D:OS.

I think there is a similar thread on the Steam forums but I thought there is no harm done if I create one here as well and try to get a little more attention to this problem.

I am playing D:OS on a laptop. It is by no means a high-end performance computer. Neither is gaming its primary purpose. It is just an ordinary laptop, a few years old already, mostly used for working and just very occasionally for playing. It has an Intel Core Duo CPU with ~2.5 GHz, 3 MB RAM and a graphics card which used to be OK a few years ago but which is now probably on the weak end of the spectrum (ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 with 1500 MB).

Despite its age, my laptop can handle D:OS pretty well on lowest graphics settings. D:OS runs pretty smoothly, it does not hang and I have yet to encounter my first CTD. The only problem is that D:OS seems to cook my CPU. Or better to say, it scorches my CPU - very comparable to the current in-game fire damage. The scorching was not a problem before the mid of April. Then it got really bad so that my laptop shut down a few minutes after the start of D:OS. The one beta update two weeks ago seemed to mitigate the problem, I was at least able to play normally for an hour or so. And now, with this update the scorching is back again - my CPU overheats in the first 15-20 minutes of playing.

The idle temperature of my laptop CPU is about 35 C. It seldom gets hotter than 60-70 C. D:OS accomplishes to heat it up to 95-100 C at which point the laptop shuts down to avoid scorching damage. I found that the problem can be at least partially alleviated by Alt+Tabbing the game and by waiting for CPU to cool down a little bit. However, it is certainly not the best solution ever.

Dear Larian Studios, I do not care about eye candies, high resolutions, fancy graphics, shadows, water reflections, wind effects or other graphical gimmicks. I can use my imagination to add all the graphical details which are absent from my laptop screen. I am in love with the game D:OS - and not with its graphical wrapping. The only thing I would like to do is to enjoy the story, the quests, the tactical combats, i.e., play the game and not admire its graphics. I think there are also quite a few people out there in the world who would like to play the game but do not have a high-end gaming computer to run it. So, my humble request: Could you please try to make a laptop mode of the game which can be handled even by aging laptops without overheating? I do not care if you have to strip it off of all the graphical effects but I would really greatly appreciate if I could enjoy the game without fearing to damage my laptop.

EDIT: I forgot to say the Dragon Commander was running flawlessly on my laptop without overheating.

Last edited by Elwyn; 30/05/14 11:38 PM.