Achieving Green Computing in Video Games Using Power Measurements and Organic Computing Techniques (Poster)

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Achieving Green Computing in Video Games Using Power
Measurements and Organic Computing Techniques
Julien Lukasewycz
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Problem
Are video games sustainable and “green” yet? NO, because…
1. …they aim for the best performance, holisc quality, and eciency on all plat-
forms, but not sustainability.
2. …in the research eld of green compung they are rather overlooked.
3. …not all devices running video games are opmized and researched equally
regarding energy eciency (e.g., mobile devices oen take precedence).
4. …a lack of methods as well as detailed data foundaons and stascs exists.
5. …developers oen have wrong mental models regarding power consumpon
of soware.
6. …gaming in California (USA) in 2016 used around 4.1
terawa-hours of electricity. This is roughly equal to:
700 million dollars in energy costs
1.5 million tons of CO2-equivalent emissions
46.8% of an average nuclear power plant [1]
5% of statewide residenal consumpon
usage of 10 million new refrigerators
Approach
I. Energy Awareness
Establish a baseline of current power consumpon in
video games
Develop a method and tool able to measure the power con-
sumpon of video games and their components ( )
Measure the power consumpon of concrete video games
and idenfy factors inuencing it ( )
Create a broad research data set and stascs ( )
II. Informedness
Make power consumpon data usable by developers
and players
Idenfy the informaon needed and the most eecve visu-
alizaon style of power data for developers and players ( )
Use measurement data in combinaon with esmaons or
benchmarks to predict power consumpon ( )
Implicitly trigger a learning eect by associang decisions
and their eects on power consumpon ( )
III. Self-Adaptability
Video games autonomously adapt their power
consumpon based on their state and environment
Use organic compung techniques that delegate and limit
resources based on the given task ( )
Make video games more adapve to the specic hardware
components of the device ( )
IV. Customizability
Let developers and players inuence the
self-adaptability behavior regarding power consumpon
Developers congure the inial power usage behavior of the
video game during development ( )
Players customize these inial conguraons to beer
match their device, environment, and preferences using sim-
ple decision quesons or more complex power sengs ( )
Video Game DeveloperPlayer
Power Profiler
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VisualizationVisualization
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Adaptation Logic
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and limits
resources
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Operating SystemDevice
provides
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provides initial configuration to
provides intentions
and preferences to
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Figure 1. Overview and relaon of our proposed concepts
References:
[1] U.S. Department of Energy, “Infographic: How much power does
a nuclear reactor produce?.” https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/
infographic-how-much-power-does-nuclear-reactor-produce, Mar. 2021.
Accessed: 25 Mar. 2025.
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Paper Poster
julien.lukasewycz@uni-due.de
https://vs.uni-due.de FDG 2025 - Vienna & Graz, Austria