SEIV , CPU Usage and SEV

tesco samoa · #1 February 1st, 2005, 10:58 PM

One thing i cannot stand about seiv is its cpu usage.

To do a 3 meg turn takes an hour on a 2+ gig machine at 99%

This really needs to be addressed for SEV.

Has anyone who talks to MM actually mentioned this problem to him ?

Suicide Junkie · #2 February 2nd, 2005, 12:22 AM

The committee game takes only 60 seconds on my 1-gig, and its in the 1 meg range.

Arkcon · #3 February 2nd, 2005, 12:26 AM

Wha-wha-what? SE4 never uses that much of the cpu on my system. It gets slow, when processing the turns of many A.I.'s in the late game, but I hadn't seen that kind of CPU usage. But I've only checked a few times, to be honest.

Imperial · #4 February 2nd, 2005, 12:41 AM

Whatever the root issue is-- it takes a long time for the AI players to process their turns-- and it should really be addressed for SE-IV

Colonel · #5 February 2nd, 2005, 01:05 AM

Funny this never happened to me on my old computer and it was a big piece. The most it ever took on my computer was 10mins on turn 800 and all the AIs and I had hundreds of ships.

Fyron · #6 February 2nd, 2005, 01:20 AM

Tesco should have provided some context... He is talking about a 255 system map with a 10 planet start. It is/was a PBW game. Such games get really, really huge... Too big for PBW to handle, in fact.

Atrocities · #7 February 2nd, 2005, 02:24 AM

The Ai has to make its turn too you know.

If it takes us an hour to make our turn then why not the AI?

Fyron · #8 February 2nd, 2005, 03:26 AM

The AI could play its turns in the background while you are playing yours. This would greatly reduce the wait time after you hit "end turn" because a lot of the work would be done already.

Kamog · #9 February 2nd, 2005, 05:32 AM

That would be really good if that could be done. The shorter the wait between turns, the better it would be. A part of the reason I have only finished a couple of games ever is because the A.I. turns take so long that I get tired of waiting and so I start a new game.

Mephisto · #10 February 2nd, 2005, 11:04 AM

My experience is that the AI turn isn't the problem but the huge battles with hundreds of ships. If there are no battles the processing is quite quick.