Battery Drain; MacBook

Hotwheelz · 03-22-2016, 04:17 PM

Today during lunch within a 40 minute period the battery life on my MacBook Air went from around 55% to 31% within that time period. The only program running was OOTP, using 3D, and I actually played the game maybe 3 minutes during the time. The rest was just idle.The battery app listed OOTP as the only program using a significant amount of energy.

24% battery in 40 minutes with most being idle seems a bit high. Not sure its just 3D or the game itself. I can turn 3D off and see how that goes and report back but I wanted to make this known.

Hotwheelz · 03-22-2016, 05:42 PM

I checked the activity monitor and while running 3D and just letting the game run it shows the energy impact score just all the way to 150-170 while showing the average energy impact as 110.45 over the last 8 hours. For OOTP. Nothing else in the last 8 hours is above 5.

Switching out of 3D mode and it shows the impact score drop down to around 6.

I know 3D is going to use a bit more battery life this just makes it unplayable.

Markus Heinsohn · 03-23-2016, 05:29 AM

I'll ask Jorin if we can do something here, but 3D graphics are always very tough on the battery, not sure if we can do anything against this.

Hotwheelz · 03-23-2016, 10:30 AM

It shouldn't take that much extra power though. I had a movie playing, downloading a program in Safari and a news program syncing in the background and combined they didn't use even a fraction of what OOTP was using.

Its a nice feature but if using 24% battery in 40 minutes while the game is simply on idle in the background is the 'norm' then I won't be using this feature.

03-22-2016, 04:17 PM	#1
Hotwheelz All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 1,620	Battery Drain; MacBook Today during lunch within a 40 minute period the battery life on my MacBook Air went from around 55% to 31% within that time period. The only program running was OOTP, using 3D, and I actually played the game maybe 3 minutes during the time. The rest was just idle.The battery app listed OOTP as the only program using a significant amount of energy. 24% battery in 40 minutes with most being idle seems a bit high. Not sure its just 3D or the game itself. I can turn 3D off and see how that goes and report back but I wanted to make this known.

03-23-2016, 05:29 AM	#3
Markus Heinsohn Developer OOTP Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 24,805	I'll ask Jorin if we can do something here, but 3D graphics are always very tough on the battery, not sure if we can do anything against this. __________________ Buy Out of the Park Baseball 25 now! Download OOTP Go 25 for iOS Download OOTP Go 25 for Android

03-22-2016, 05:42 PM	#2
Hotwheelz All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 1,620	I checked the activity monitor and while running 3D and just letting the game run it shows the energy impact score just all the way to 150-170 while showing the average energy impact as 110.45 over the last 8 hours. For OOTP. Nothing else in the last 8 hours is above 5. Switching out of 3D mode and it shows the impact score drop down to around 6. I know 3D is going to use a bit more battery life this just makes it unplayable.

03-23-2016, 10:30 AM	#4
Hotwheelz All Star Starter Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Pacific Northwest Posts: 1,620	It shouldn't take that much extra power though. I had a movie playing, downloading a program in Safari and a news program syncing in the background and combined they didn't use even a fraction of what OOTP was using. Its a nice feature but if using 24% battery in 40 minutes while the game is simply on idle in the background is the 'norm' then I won't be using this feature.