So I’ve been playing Icarus with the wife and the optimization is hot garbage. Wife is hosting and pulling 10 fps with a Nvidia 3070TI
We enjoy the game so I start doing research. Turns out once you’ve played enough the database on the host just gets too big and chokes out the CPU threads since it can’t use more than 2 cores.
Answer is to migrate your world to a sepf hosted dedicated server. Say no more.
So now I got an excuse (wife approved) to setup a computer as a server and keep it running. I have an old HP SFF i5 16GB RAM with an SSD I’ve reimagined a few times for a home server.
Flashed it with Debian and setup the Icarus server in docker. Runs like a champ.
Bonus points. I hooked up a wattage meter and it idles at 1~2 watts!
I used to run an old gaming computer as a home server and it felt like $30 a month in electricity.
Edit: System idles at 19 watts. I had the meter plugged into the wrong device…
Now I can start throwing more stuff on there once I figure out backup for the game world incase I bork it.
That idle power consumption doesn’t seem right. That’s less than a Raspberry Pi.
Well shit…
I checked and I had my meter plugged into the wrong device.
Idle is 19w still not bad!
That’s like 2 LED lightbulbs.
RasPi isn’t actually very efficient for what it is.
Yeah, it sounds more plausible like it’s amperes
That would make it way too high at anywhere from 100W to 400W depending on where in the world they are.
Still more plausible than 1W
Not really, most SFF PCs top out below 70W at absolute maximum, 100W-400W at idle is more improbable.
For reference, mine uses 7W on average running my home automation and some other things, when it’s actually idling it’s well below that.
OP says 12W, has it been edited?
It said 1~2 originally
Then I don’t see the problem. 12 is normal with additional SSD and a bit load
No that’s real, Raspi is even lower. My Lenovo Tiny were idling around 6W without the additional SSD.
That’s still a 5W difference.
I have other devices like a TV that require 1-2W when they are in standby/shut off.
OP’s number is way to low. The power supplys conversion loss itself will already be a few watts.
I see 12W in OPs post, was it edited maybe? 1W would be too low, agree.