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How to save on the electric bill when afk overnight or at work or to play other games Black Desert Online BDO - Make Sure to minimize!
UPDATE: I forgot to mention you may notice video ram does not decrease when game is minimized. This may cause issues if you play another game, to fix that lower settings to minimal before you minimize BDO!
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hey YouTube and sendar here today I want
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to cover a quick topic saving some money
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and using a little less electricity with
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black deser online a couple days ago an
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open desert a Discord channel that I'm
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on I'll put a link in the
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description uh someone brought up that
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they didn't know how to minimize the
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game to reduce you know the hardware the
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graphics and the CPU usage overnight and
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they always just turn the game off or
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let it run and their computer was
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getting hot so what I uh suggested was
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you know always make sure you leave the
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game running as 24 hours a day if
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possible you can AFK fish the entire
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time and of course the most important
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thing especially as you get more workers
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the workers continue to work as long as
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the game's running so if you actually
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stop the game and turn it off your
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workers will just stop working in about
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an hour or two and you'll lose all that
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time and of course having them working
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and being and doing AFK fishing
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overnight when you're sleeping or you're
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at work or whatever is going to get you
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ahead a lot quicker than just shutting
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the game
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down so the first thing you want to look
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at is when you click disconnect or end
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game now right now I'm in full
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screen
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windowed so when I hit Escape disconnect
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if I click end game this little check
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box will come up you want to click that
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and over here I also have something I
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just put this on screen display here so
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you can see what's going on the CPU
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running
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49% uh or 49 Celsius temperature and the
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GPU 78 when we click this and confirm
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the game will actually minimize and only
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one run at one frame per second and it
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use almost no CPU when you do this you
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can actually see the game right now but
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I can't because it's minimized now but
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the temperatures will Begin to Fall you
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can already see the gpus dro dropping
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off a little here and the CPU will too I
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did uh use a watt uh reader thing on the
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computer and I went from about 250 down
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to 120 so I don't know yeah it's going
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to save a few cents a day uh if you're
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in a cold climate I'm in Florida you
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might want the heat so you might want to
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keep the game running full screen and
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you can see the GPU here temperature is
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still going down and I can hear the fan
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uh speed going down too this will cut
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down how much electricity you're using
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using and the game will run and the
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other benefit you can play other games
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when this is happening too so if you're
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AFK fishing have your workers you know
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go play another game it will take a very
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small uh part of resources but you
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should be fine and of course I will
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switch to if you play in Window
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mode all you want to do is go up to the
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upper right and hit that minimize button
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and the same window will come
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up well hopefully that'll save you some
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electricity and get rid of the concerns
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uh for those of you who who want to use
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less electricity save some money uh
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thanks a lot for watching I'll see you
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guys next time
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