[quote]Originally posted by BasicGuy:
<strong>Now people this Is not a bug....A bug is something that happens that wasnt suppose to. I have a feeling that however the game was coded is the reasoning behind this not a bug.
Brad</strong><hr></blockquote>
A bug can be either a flaw in the code, or a flaw in the design. What probably happened was the game was designed a certain way (maybe as far back as OOTP 1), and the developer never realized the CPU was running at 100%, even when the game was sitting idle. As I stated before, unless you are running on a laptop and your fan starts running constantly, you would never even notice the CPU usage. This is one of the disadvantages of running a small company. The larger software developers do performance testing, which would have caught this type of thing.
The question is, what are they going to do about it now that its been reported? This may be one of those things thats either really easy to fix, or it may be the type of thing that requires major rework.
Here's another interesting question for the attorneys ou there. This is probably covered in the license agreement, but could the developers be held liable if their software causes my CPU to overheat and become damaged? I realized proving the game caused the damage would be difficult, but I've heard of lawsuits for stranger things than this.
[ March 15, 2002: Message edited by: JimboJones ]</p>
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