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Hello all,

I’m not in any way programming or tech minded, so what I find curious may seem simple to those who are. I’m wondering what about WorldBox makes my iPhone 13 Plus get so hot, when other games, most of which are far more graphically intense, barely cause it’s temperature to rise at all?

My guess is that the game has to tell so many little dots what to do at any given time that it requires a lot of processing power, especially since I usually play at 5x speed. But if that is the reason then I’m surprised by how much more that effects the phone’s temperature than a game like Real Racing 3 that has such impressive graphics at a decently high frame rate.

If anyone feels like doing a bit of teaching/explaining I’d be extremely grateful!

Thank you and have a wonderful day!

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over 2 years ago - /u/Kendja - Direct link

Simulation games are more demanding on CPU, not GPU.

For example, racing games need to simulate movement and physics of around 20 cars.

But depending on the map and amount of units, worldbox need to calculate thousands of entities, their stats, pathfinding, ai, friend/foe, cities, kingdoms, tiles changes, vegetation growth, and more.

And the more units you have, and the bigger the map - the more work CPU needs to do for simulation. And here where it can get hot.