Should we be comparing them? I mean, comparing word processing software versus a complete flight simulation with real time 3D graphic rendering… Doesn’t seem to be an even playing field here. Word or acrobat can afford being inactive since they don’t really do anything even when they’re active. Unless you tell it to do a certain function or command.
But flightsim is constantly running, redrawing image 60 frames per second, even if it’s less then the background processes are the one still running.
I mean, it’s nice if we can have that feature of suspending the processes when inactive. But unless we can actually come up with some form of design for them to consider changing the entire infrastructure of the system to make it work that way. Otherwise, it’ll just be another wishful thinking of something that’ll never gonna happen. It is what it is.