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[EricHiggin]

Conina said:

EricHiggin said:

 With the game being paused in the background, it makes sense that it's still heavily using the CPU since it needs to be ready to fire back up and go in an instant. No different than for consoles. Before my PS4 fan mod, when I paused a game and jumped into the UI, typically the fan would ramp up to some degree, because it was now dealing with the game and UI.

No, most PC games reduce their CPU load to ~1% the second you "tab out of them".

You can have a dozen other active games in the background and don't have any relevant performance loss for the game in the foreground... as long as the memory doesn't run out.

I was talking about FH4 but yes, most PC games shouldn't keep the system stressed when in the background.