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| | WPF and Heat\Battery Life I am considering developing an application that uses WPF for the UI and am a little concerned about the issue of Heat Generation and reduced Battery Life for Laptop users when the graphics card is in 3D mode. Does WPF need to be used in 3D mode for this to be an issue? Or will all WPF applications require the GPU to be fully active? There are a lot of stories about people running Vista with Aero Glass on their laptops having a machine that is scoldingly hot or much reduced battery life. Is anyone aware of what the situation is expected to be like when Vista ships? Are the drivers going to be improved so they downthrottle the GPU\Video Memory? And if so will the same option be available for WPF apps on XP? The application in question would be used in a retail situation and if the use of WPF resulted in 1. Not being able to use Laptops or 2. reduced hardware lifetimes due to heat then I think this would rule WPF out. What are peoples thoughts on this? I am sure Microsoft have plans for this and maybe future video card generations will handle this much better, but I hope this is not the "fix" MS has in mind. Thanks. |
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