Otter question

[Play]

I allways thought they needed to "see" the screen in order to work. So why is it if you turn your monitor off they continue to play?

[goBob]

The otter can "see" the screen even when the monitor is off.

Autoplayers do not "see" the same way people do. The image appearing on the screen is first recorded as 1's and 0's. Either in the computer's RAM or in the video card's RAM. The autoplayer "looks" at that 1's and 0's copy of the image.

When you turn off your monitor, you turn off the device that translates those 1's and 0's into visible light, but you do not turn off the video card or the ram that records the 1's and 0's in the first place.

Because the monitor just makes a copy of the 1's and 0's as visible light, when the monitor is on, it displays the same information the autoplayer can look at. If the monitor is on and part of the game area is blocked or off the edge of the screen, it will be for the autoplayer too. If you can see the entire game area when the monitor is on, the autoplayer can see it regardless whether the monitor is on, which is why it can keep playing even after you turn off your monitor.