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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: Cooley on May 24, 2007, 12:43:23 AM
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Ive recently read a few posts about using the Task manager and messing with processes,
Skuzzy advised that you want to make sure that AH is running 98/99%
if you alt-tab out while in the game and check it
Well im one of the guys who has it stuck on 48/50% area with the rest on "System Idle" area
Ive defragged,,,,Virus Checked (AVG) spyware cleaned (spybot) adware hunted (Ad-aware) and have tried to clean things up as much as possible
with such little knowledge of what i the heck i am doing
Skuzzy implicated that it must be somthing taking up the CPU time,
whats my next move to figure this out?
(http://www.geocities.com/cools367/untitled.JPG)
DXDIAG (http://www.geocities.com/cools367/DxDiag.txt)
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If you have a dual-core CPU, the Task Manager is a bit stupid about CPU usage. 50% is the highest it will show for any one process.
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I dont think i have dual core
my dxdiag is on the above link if you would like to take a look, thanks
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From your DXDiag:
"Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (2 CPUs)"
2 CPUs = dual core
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oh, thanks :rolleyes:
btw, your Luftwaffe skins are sweet :aok
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Anytime
And thanks :aok
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Originally posted by Krusty
From your DXDiag:
"Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (2 CPUs)"
2 CPUs = dual core
In this case, I think it's HyperThreading. I don't think there was a 2.4 dual core P4.
And besides, less than 100% CPU utilization isn't always bad. With vsync on, it can just mean that you are running "comfortably" at your monitor's refresh rate.
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Da. "Dual" P4s will have a "HT" on the CPU logo if you look close enough. I have an HP laptop (nx9600) with one of those. Still acts like a dual core machine, and both Linux and Windows will lie about CPU utilization.
Back when the vox-squeakers were diaper-poopers Microsoft had the testicular fortitude to announce that "100% CPU utilization indicates your server is running at peak efficiency with no wasted CPU cycles". They were referring to a server that was doing...nothing. TechNet. Gotta love it. Almost as much as you had to love Windows 2000 SP5.
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The Hyper-threaded CPU's from Intel appear as dual-core. There are two complete sets of registers just like a dual-core CPU. But, much of hte internal silicon is shared between the two.
So it is, at best, a half-breed. They do work pretty well for what they are.