Optimize power for portable games on Ultrabook

Power saving is an important user experience for the applications running on Ultrabook, the next generation mobile PC platform with more portable features. However, traditional PC games, as one kind of the primary applications on Ultrabook, have few energy efficiency concern and practice so far. This paper analyzes the property & strategy of PC game power optimization, presents the practical optimization methods and the tools available for game developers. The Case study of a real game optimized with these methods and tools indicates the obvious power improvement.