SEIV , CPU Usage and SEV
 

One thing i cannot stand about seiv is its cpu usage.

To do a 3 meg turn takes an hour on a 2+ gig machine at 99%

This really needs to be addressed for SEV.

Has anyone who talks to MM actually mentioned this problem to him ?

Re: SEIV , CPU Usage and SEV
 

The committee game takes only 60 seconds on my 1-gig, and its in the 1 meg range.

Re: SEIV , CPU Usage and SEV
 

Wha-wha-what? SE4 never uses that much of the cpu on my system. It gets slow, when processing the turns of many A.I.'s in the late game, but I hadn't seen that kind of CPU usage. But I've only checked a few times, to be honest.

Re: SEIV , CPU Usage and SEV
 

Whatever the root issue is-- it takes a long time for the AI players to process their turns-- and it should really be addressed for SE-IV

Re: SEIV , CPU Usage and SEV
 

Funny this never happened to me on my old computer and it was a big piece. The most it ever took on my computer was 10mins on turn 800 and all the AIs and I had hundreds of ships.

Re: SEIV , CPU Usage and SEV
 

Tesco should have provided some context... He is talking about a 255 system map with a 10 planet start. It is/was a PBW game. Such games get really, really huge... Too big for PBW to handle, in fact.

Re: SEIV , CPU Usage and SEV
 

The Ai has to make its turn too you know. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif If it takes us an hour to make our turn then why not the AI? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: SEIV , CPU Usage and SEV
 

The AI could play its turns in the background while you are playing yours. This would greatly reduce the wait time after you hit "end turn" because a lot of the work would be done already. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: SEIV , CPU Usage and SEV
 

That would be really good if that could be done. The shorter the wait between turns, the better it would be. A part of the reason I have only finished a couple of games ever is because the A.I. turns take so long that I get tired of waiting and so I start a new game.

Re: SEIV , CPU Usage and SEV
 

My experience is that the AI turn isn't the problem but the huge battles with hundreds of ships. If there are no battles the processing is quite quick.