weird CPU usage

Arryn · #1 February 29th, 2004, 03:01 PM

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Originally posted by Pocus:
I dont have perf issues. I have CPU usage issues. Thats different.

Many laptops are notorious for having (cheap) graphics chipsets that leave most of the work for the CPU to do rather than the GPU.

As PDF just said, turning off the background anims should ease your woes.

BTW, by my way of thinking, CPU usage is a performance issue. Performance isn't strictly just about frames/sec, or how long something takes. If you cannot multitask because some app has hogged all the CPU cycles, that's still a performance issue, since you cannot properly use your machine to perform the tasks you wish to do.

Pocus · #2 February 29th, 2004, 06:13 PM

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

Johan K · #3 February 29th, 2004, 07:53 PM

It is possible to lower the maximum number of frames per second and thus lowering your cpu usage. The switch --fps 25 will cut your cpu usage (and fps) in half most of the time.

Pocus · #4 March 1st, 2004, 12:37 PM

its only a workaround, but its better then nothing..

it does not strike you that its abnormal that the CPU climb to 100% as soon as some attached units are displayed?

Johan K · #5 March 1st, 2004, 09:24 PM

No it doesn't, I know that the army setup screen will require more cpu time when you display many squads on screen. Sure, that's some sloppy cpu wasting programming, but a high fps on that screen has never been a prority. But who knows, maybe I will look at it on behalf of you portable computer people.