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When I use Direct X instead of OpenGL for Minetest, my hard drive is fine. However, when I use OpenGL for Minetest, my hard drive spins real fast and makes me feel as if it will blow up if I continue to use OpenGL. My computer has Windows 7 64-bit and is a 64-bit machine. It has an AMD Athlon II X4 645 quad-core processor, an EVGA GeForce GT 610 2GB video card, a 1TB hard drive, and 4GB of RAM. My version of OpenGL is 4.2, but Minetest says it is using 4.3.

Inocudom wrote:my hard drive spins real fast and makes me feel as if it will blow up if I continue to use OpenGL.

Are you sure it is your hard drive? Is it constantly used for reading or writing (use some system monitor like Windows 7's "perfmon")?

Inocudom wrote:EVGA GeForce GT 610 2GB

rofl, you buy based on VRAM? DDR3 in a graphics card from 2011 or later is unacceptable. That graphics card can be slower than most IGPs (Athlons do not have IGPs though).

Inocudom wrote:My version of OpenGL is 4.2, but Minetest says it is using 4.3.

The latest NVIDIA drivers support OpenGL 4.3 on 400/500/600 series NVIDIA graphics cards.

xyz made a new Minetest build with Direct X in it today. In games like The Sims 3, my video card works far better than the integrated graphics chip that came with my computer. Even when I did not have the graphics card, OpenGL was still hard on my hard drive. The graphics card, however, does give a noticeable boost to the frame rate I experience in Minetest. As long as I use Direct X instead of OpenGL, my hard drive will not spin nearly as fast as it does with OpenGL.

Calinou wrote:

Inocudom wrote:my hard drive spins real fast and makes me feel as if it will blow up if I continue to use OpenGL.

Are you sure it is your hard drive?

I am pretty sure he is talking about the fan, not the hard disc.

My fan RPM hits about 12000RPM -- my towers general heat is about 70'C when heavy gaming, and about 55'C when not.

(Yes, I have a super powered fan, its variable speed.)