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Title: Do you leave your front end running with movie intros playing all the time?
Post by: knightrdrx on August 04, 2014, 09:35:39 pm

I really don't want to hear it looping 24/7 and doesn't this eat up processing power? Do you prefer to shut your computer down or set a sleep mode for it ?

Title: Re: Do you leave your front end running with movie intros playing all the time?
Post by: BadMouth on August 04, 2014, 10:22:54 pm

I shut it down and unplug it.  I spent too much time on it for it to be damaged by a power surge or lightning strike.

Title: Re: Do you leave your front end running with movie intros playing all the time?
Post by: Howard_Casto on August 04, 2014, 10:37:32 pm

Not only that but you are wasting power.  Even a modest pc eats up a lot of juice for you to have a glorified screen saver running. 

If I've set it up for others to play I might leave it running until they leave, but other than that... no it goes off when I'm done playing.

Title: Re: Do you leave your front end running with movie intros playing all the time?
Post by: rpgposer on August 05, 2014, 03:48:37 pm

Quote from: BadMouth on August 04, 2014, 10:22:54 pm

I shut it down and unplug it.  I spent too much time on it for it to be damaged by a power surge or lightning strike.

OMG QFT.

Title: Re: Do you leave your front end running with movie intros playing all the time?
Post by: yotsuya on August 05, 2014, 03:50:38 pm

I only turn stuff on if I'm going to play it. Why waste power/stress components?

Title: Re: Do you leave your front end running with movie intros playing all the time?
Post by: pbj on August 05, 2014, 04:12:11 pm

I leave them running if I'm in the room and want the ambiance.  I only play them for 5 minutes each month to submit a pitiful score to our competitions.

Title: Re: Do you leave your front end running with movie intros playing all the time?
Post by: bulbousbeard on August 07, 2014, 03:17:41 am

That's why my frontend has a built in screen saver. It pauses the frontend, stops the sounds, saves the CRT from burn in, and leaves the CPU sitting at 0% usage.