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Loren said:
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alexti said:
(1) That's weird. I can Alt-Tab back and forth while the turn calculation is being performed without any problem. It sounds more like something in OS scheduler being borked. User-mode application isn't even supposed to be able to totally monopolize computer resources.
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It's not the OS scheduler--the machine is behaving fine and there is plenty of CPU power available (this is a hyperthread machine, Dominions can only monopolize it's processor, not the whole box.)
You can freely alt-tab back and forth while it's your turn. You can pretty freely alt-tab back and forth during battle resolution. What you can't do is alt-tab back and forth during AI calculation. I'm thinking that perhaps it is only checking the keyboard when it displays a message.
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Ok, I probably never tried to do it during AI calculation. I haven't actually seen it take any significant amount of time (like 1 sec or more). Alt-tab is not checked by the program, but by the OS. If program is in infinitive loop and doesn't handle keyboard at all, alt-tab still works fine. One needs to make special effort to suppress alt-tab and it's somewhat tricky and Windows-specific. It's unlikely Dom3 does it. It seems strange that 'AI calculations' take so long. You may try to disable hyperthreading - sometimes it creates weird thread locking problems. Maybe OS scheduler and 'AI calculcations' are getting dead-locked on some semaphore (not sure what it might be though...) Sorry, I don't have any other ideas...
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