I've never known a browser game to make my work computer go into overdrive, but for some reason it does on Card Hunter. Like the bottom of the computer is literally hot to the touch. I even had one of the rubber feet fall off because the glue got too hot. It's an i7 with 8GB of RAM. Pretty sure it's an integrated video card. Thoughts? Anyone else have this issue?
Flash games are known to hit relatively hard on any rigs resources, even those of the most performant ones. This is for a number of reasons I won't delve into here. That being said, your laptop going extremely hot for long periods of times can indicate you have some software/hardware issue worth investigating, and that's unrelated to the fact CH might seem to be the program making those issues arise. As a first step, use some utility program capable of tracking cpu/gpu temperatures and fans speed (I use Hardware Monitor). How to properly use the program is outside of the scope of this post, but make sure you check how high temperatures go under different circumstances. You generally want to keep an eye on your system's parameters during your normal activity (gaming, work, video playback, etc). Ultimately, overheating can be caused by lots of very different issues: resource-heavy programs/services running in the background, buggy software, faulty fans, dust clogging your fans and/or heat sinks. Edit: I can give very general directions about how to identify those kind of issues. But if, after monitoring your system's parameters for some decent amount of time, you come to the conclusion something serious might be going on, your best chance might be contacting your PC's manufacturer's customers support. Alternatively (if your laptop's isn't covered by warranty or the customers isn't able to help you), you might have to bring the laptop to some appropriate specialist in order for it to be checked and eventually fixed. I do know for a fact my laptop is prone to slowly suck lots of dust, which over several months builds up to the point my CPU and GPU start overheating even under minimal load. Opening the laptop and blowing the dust off + replacing the thermal paste between the silicon chips and heat sinks generally solves the issue entirely, but I wouldn't suggest anybody to do that by themselves, unless you're extremely confident you can perform the whole process w/o causing damage to the hardware.
Clean the fans, they often build up lots of dust. Also, in settings, set quality to Low, and disable lighting.
