With the recent gaming changes to mobile platforms from traditional desktops, the relationship between power and performance is tighter than ever. Providing the best user experience in the mobile gaming world means high performance and longer battery life. This session will teach developers practical methods to improve user experience by providing a practical overview of power issues in gaming and show how to boost the end user experience regardless of the platform's power constraints. Attendees will then walk through a practical example by Funcom to create a power saving mode in Lego Minifigures that increased gaming time by more than 40%.
We will show that we can quickly reduce processor power consumption over 50% when optimizing a gaming workload by performing simple modifications such as capping the frame rate, reducing AI threads, changing the rendering resolution, and choosing the right algorithm. Developers will leave the presentation with an increased understanding of key power optimizations to take back and use in their mobile games.