metalbrew Posted July 27, 2007 Share Posted July 27, 2007 I have a Logitech G15 keyboard which includes an LCD display. It's a useful feature, I usually have it set to show me CPU and memory usage. I have an Athlon 64 X2 4600+ and I'm running 32 bit XP (I'm not happy with the Windows 64 bit offerings at the moment). I have 2gb of RAM and a nVidia 8800GTS 640mb card. I'm in good shape regarding drivers and I have all power management disabled. When I play the game, both cores of the CPU perma-spiked at 100% for the entire game (actually it begins right at the briefing screen and doesn't stop until I exit out to the initial game menu). I wouldn't have noticed this without the LCD keyboard or a CPU logging app running. I'm curious if everyone else is perma-spiked while playing? The game is behaving OK for me, and I don't mean this to sound like a complaint, but in lieu of the many performance related threads I'm seeing I think it's a probably factor for many folks. I play a ton of high end FPS and RTS games, this never happens with other titles - usually my CPU sits at ~40% during other games. Something is up, I hope this info helps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 That is normal, CMx1 and TacOps do that, too (not with two cores, though). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 CM:SF is not yet optimized for Core Duo, so I think what you reported metalbrew doesn't sound unusual. That's just a guess. We are starting the process of optimizing for Core Duo this week. We don't know how long it will take because Charles has to purchase a new computer and switch code compilers. Which is why we haven't done it until now Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalbrew Posted July 28, 2007 Author Share Posted July 28, 2007 Cool, it seems when you have a really quick computer, the CPU spike isn't so debilitating. For slower machines, I'd think the wastefulness would cause a big performance hit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Uh? Most games run full throttle CPU all the time. No matter how fast the CPU is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalbrew Posted July 28, 2007 Author Share Posted July 28, 2007 Originally posted by Redwolf: Uh? Most games run full throttle CPU all the time. No matter how fast the CPU is. Well, I play Battlefield 2, Counter Strike Source, Supreme Commander, UT2004, Company of Heroes, and the CMx1 games. None of those games cause 100% CPU utilization throughout the whole game. Even SolidWorks doesn't pin my CPU. My experience is that your statement is wrong. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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