Certain workloads can’t just magically cause your CPU to get “unusually” hot. It’s true that some instruction sets can cause greater thermal loads than others, but disabling the relevant instruction sets is only likely to make it worse, as the CPU will then complete the work using other less efficient instructions.

A CPU will run as hot as it needs to to do whatever it is doing, up to whatever its safe temperature is, at which point it will slow down to protect itself. Running at this “max” temp is not a problem. CPUs will run as fast and hot as they safely can, and no hotter.

Presumably the emulated games are simply framerate and resolution limited, where the normal PC games may not be.

That said, there are some things you can do, assuming the CPU doesn’t actually need to work as hard as it is to run the games you are playing.

• Limit framerate. The game may be running uncapped, in which case it will be using 100% GPU (and therefore more CPU as well) to create as many frames as possible. The ones in excess of your display refresh rate will simply not be shown. You can usually limit framerate in game settings (often called vsync). If this isn’t available, it can be done using mangohud.
• Limit power and/or clock speed. This will lower power consumption and temperatures, at the cost of performance. Which is not a problem if the game doesn’t actually need to run that fast.
• Lower the “max” allowed temperature. This will cause the CPU to throttle sooner, keeping it cooler. This usually has a severely negative impact on performance.

You might also look into undervolting the system. This involves lowering the voltage used by the CPU. This can allow it to run cooler without sacrificing performance, but can cause system instability.

are we just amusing ourselves until death?

IMO, yes. But just calling it “entertainment” is a bit reductionist, I think.

But yeah. And I don’t see anything is wrong with that. Having a cat is cool, video games are fun, and good company is fulfilling in a powerful, indescribable, way.

To experience that kind of stuff, and for others to do the same, as much and as often as possible, is what I live for.

Yeah, there’s a lot of bad stuff in the world. But I’m able to make my corner of it quite liveable. And not just for myself, but for friends and family.

I can’t save the world, but I can decide to make the sliver of it that I’ll interact with throughout my life, a little bit nicer.

The part I struggle with, is finding a way to make living, that makes things better, not worse. Jobs that don’t contribute towards people having less and less time for the things that make life worth living, are non-existent.

What the other guy said, the task scheduler already assigns processes to cores depending on what is suitable.

What you might look into, if you want to reduce thermal throttling, is undervolting. By reducing the voltage being used by your CPU, it’ll run cooler.

I almost always give undervolting a go on laptops. Saves battery, reduces temps, potentially even improves performance.

Historically, there is no need to share a border with the US for them to come fuck your shit up.

Whether they leave you alone is… Not about whether you border a NATO member country.

Certainly not if you’re Russia.

National anthem plays

Cool.

But the reason you’re being downvoted, is that instead of commenting this, you made a comment that sounded like you were dismissing the dangers of PFAS, and dismissing it as the modern-day equivalent to lead, asbestos, and the like.

Which is what it is, and you clearly agree that it is.

Maybe lead with that, instead of the conspiracy angle.

Did you at some point read about how some of them, such as the ones used in frying pans, are unlikely to cause problems in the human body, and then completely stopped looking into it further?

It’s a massive group of compounds, some of which currently look to be quite safe, but a significant number of which also have fully verified dangers (especially some compounds required for production).

Obviously. It too does wine environment management. But it’s meant for games, and for wine specifically, Bottles is just nicer.

Lutris is massive overkill if you just want run the windows version of python in order to compile python code to windows binaries. Not to mention it just isn’t as slick in terms of UX as a wine manager.

It’s not a catch-all game launcher.

It’s a wine environment manager. And it is becoming increasingly good at simplying the complexity of setting up wine bottles for different things.

It’s basically winetricks on steroids, with a really nice GUI to boot.

Running windows games is just one use-case.

It is. Along with PFAS.

Does the US have citizens iniatives?

This isn’t just a change.org petition. In the EU (and a lot of member countries) theres a system for citizens initiatives, which have the same or similar legal weight as laws proposed by legislators.

That doesn’t mean the proposed laws get passed, but it does mean the people can bypass the politicians in order to at least get something onto the starting line.

I can’t knock you for spreading the word. You gave me an excuse to mention the lemmy community, too.

Yes, I’m a mod over on !titanfall@lemmy.world.

It’s pretty quiet, but I’m also one of the people committed to hosting northstar servers until the heat-death of the universe. Ever played on a MENTAL server?

Sees titanfall reference.

Cries.

Yes and no.

You now can install SteamOS on other handhelds, and Valve has started issuing fixes for those other devices.

That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s ready for use. Look up your device and see what’s working.

And it’s not like you lose out on anything by sticking with Bazzite.

That would have been Quantum Break. I don’t recall Control having any one cutscene that long.

But Quantum Break did the whole video-game/TV-series hybrid media thing, and was full of “episodes” that were essentially 30-minute cutscenes.

I dunno man.

It’s not like linux applications ever have different app-names in the menu, when compared to the package name you just saw when installing it.

That has never tripped me up. No. Never.

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It’s probably time based.

And this kind of thing isn’t for the type of people who mess with settings. If this defaulted to off, then it would actually be useless.

Yeah. Plus they immediately got a reply from someone showing where you can turn it off in settings.