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February 29th, 2004, 11:26 AM
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Re: weird CPU usage
further update, dunno if the devs really care but:
the cpu usage is related to the presence or absence of attached units. If you have 20 leaders listed w/o units, everything is fine, if you have units, CPU climb to 100% as soon as you have 3+ formations.
So I wonder if the problem is not related to units highlighting (wounded, experimented), and if there is not a real time redrawing of each and every units, either highlighted, or not, thus eating cpu power fast (without a limited frame rate for the redraw).
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February 29th, 2004, 12:36 PM
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Re: weird CPU usage
What bugs me more is the high cpu usage in the title screen. I wish we could get a static title screen. I'm editing a map right now and sometimes i just want to close the editor and open a text file. That's almost impossible with dominions running and this is on a p4 2.5 with 1 gig ram.
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February 29th, 2004, 01:03 PM
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Re: weird CPU usage
I really don't understand why some of you are having this sort of problem. Perhaps it's sound-related, as I've turned off the background music. On my 2.1Ghz AMD-based system, with a "mere" 512k RAM and using WinXP Pro, I have no trouble whatsoever running Dom, Mozilla (6+ tabs), Excel, Photoshop, MS-Paint, NoteTab (text editor), CuteFTP, and Total Commander all at the same time and I never notice a slowdown, not even while Dom is processing a turn (which, unlike some reports in other threads, never takes more than a minute or two to do, even in the background, no matter how far into the game I am). And XP isn't exactly an efficient OS. The next question that begs to be asked is what OS are you folks using that are having performance issues? (If you're using a DOS-based OS such as Win98SE, that would explain most everything.)
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March 1st, 2004, 02:14 AM
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Re: weird CPU usage
I dont have perf issues. I have CPU usage issues. Thats different.
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March 1st, 2004, 02:23 AM
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Re: weird CPU usage
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Originally posted by Torvak:
What bugs me more is the high cpu usage in the title screen. I wish we could get a static title screen. I'm editing a map right now and sometimes i just want to close the editor and open a text file. That's almost impossible with dominions running and this is on a p4 2.5 with 1 gig ram.
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Yep, the opening screen animation gobbles at least 80% of a 2MHz CPU. But this is easily avoided either by minimizing the game or disabling this background anim in Preferences menu.
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February 29th, 2004, 03:01 PM
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February 29th, 2004, 06:13 PM
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Re: weird CPU usage
I dont have much perf issue with dom on my laptop, I have a good 50/60 fps in battle. What bother my is the cpu hitting 100% in the unit positionning, which triggers all the fans of my pc. And I enjoy the silence 
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