CPU at 100%

Smersh · #1 September 16th, 2007, 02:33 PM

Are you playing on a laptob or desktop?

Some processors throttle down performance at certain tempretures, especially on laptobs.

Horses · #2 September 16th, 2007, 05:32 PM

Desktop. Meanwhile I found out that the problem exist only in windowed mode. In fullscreen mode the CPU-Load is about 1% (if I switch to Task Manager).

SheaColandri · #3 October 21st, 2007, 10:12 AM

On my system, windowed mode SPMBT uses 48% of the CPU since it is always running in its own partition. It isn't designed for sharing resources while running (as succinctly stated by Mobhack Andy). I believe that full-screen mode is an all-or-nothing proposition; when you switch to Task Manager, you're effectively halting the game temporarily.

{P4 3.0gHZ, Intel 865PBZ mobo, 2GB dual-channel mem, Sapphire Radeon X1550/256MB DDR2)