Something wrong with CPU usage?

Brainiac4 · #1 December 24th, 2005, 01:36 AM

It does pose a bit of a challenge when testing, though. Alt-tabbing between the desktop (or Firefox or Textpad) and WW causes my system to chug. And I'm sportin' some pretty good hardware -- Athlon64 3500+, 1GB ram, 256mb Radeon x700 -- so it's challenging.

Not that I expect you to fix it just for little old me, and I'll continue playing and testing, but I did want to chime in.

Fingers · #2 December 24th, 2005, 02:16 AM

It's just my old-fashioned programming techniques... The launcher uses up CPU because it's running in a loop waiting for user input... It would've been easier to fix this in the launcher than the game (as it's not performance-critical) by sleeping for a period of time each time it loops, but I didn't think about it. Maybe some time in the future I'll look into this. (One of the problems is I don't think SDL has a portable sleep function so I'd need to use the win32 api and the Mac port would need to use something different)