#Main menu animation: must consume ton of electricity?

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light mountain
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I like the main menu animation, but man I really dislike that my GPU is running at full power, like it's computing a super complicated graphics (like during the game). I can post a video if you want, I can barely hear the music because the GPU fan is spinning like crazy. During the game, this is expected, but in the main menu, graphics should not consuming a GPU like this. (My GPU is an Nvidia RTX 3070 with 8 GB RAM and I run the game at 4K).

Suggestion A) Add a menu option "power saving main menu graphics (image)": use just a plain image, problem solved (for people like me who don't care about the animation but care about GPU being wasted at the menu already).

Suggestion B) Use a video. I doubt that playing a video in the background would use the same power like now.

Suggestion C) Fix the animation, so it uses only a minimum amount of power.

I prefer A) for a quick fix and B) for a proper fix.

Imagine how many people turn on the game, then go away to come back maybe half an hour later, leaving the game at the main menu, consuming all this energy and GPU...

Thank you for considering this

agile spoke
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i think some good optimization would be making distant objects 2D.