- Steam App
- Idle Startup (4779560)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 7 July 2026 - 16:27:51 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
A few of you reported the game running your CPU hot or spinning up the fans. That is fair, for an idle game it should barely register, so I looked into it. Here is what was going on. The game had no frame rate limit, so on a high refresh rate monitor it was redrawing the whole screen 144 or 240 times a second, even though almost nothing on an idle screen actually changes. That is a lot of wasted work, and on some machines it pinned a CPU core and heated things up. What is new Frame rate cap: pick 30, 60, or Unlimited. It now defaults to 60, which looks identical on an idle screen but uses far less power. V-Sync toggle: on by default, turn it off if you prefer. You will find both under Menu, Display, Graphics. Your choice is saved and stays put between sessions. If your machine was running warm, this should take care of it. If it is still warm after updating, tell me your setup in the dis...