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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: recon1 on October 01, 2003, 05:47:01 PM
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For the Love of Pete!! Can anybody tell me why after 9 months of playing my frame rate is down to 3 maybe 9 going into smoke or during mission. I have always had 40+ or more. This is really frustrating. Also, I lose UDP everytime I log on with in 3 to 5 minutes. Never happened before either.
What is goin on.
recon1
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what are your system specs? what have you tried? you may have xtra programs running, you may need a defrag, could have a virus. doing any file sharing? Have you changed video settings or changed drivers?
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I suspect something is running in background, such as a worm or virus, maybe some spyware. Or you are under some sort of DOS attack. This would also explain the loss of UDP.
Sudden drops in frame rates are indicative of the CPU being used for something else. Look in the task manager and see what percentage of CPU is being used by Aces High. It should be at 99% or better.
My guess is that the percentage percentage will be lower.
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I would love to check task manager. Where is it?
recon1
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Just hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and press the "Task Manager" button, then hit the "Processes" tab to see the list of what is running and a what CPU percentage.
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CTRL ALT DEL brings up the close program box. No task manager button there. I use Windows Millenium. What next my friend??
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Hey Recon & Skuzzy i checked my task manager,and AH was using 50% and Rundll32.exe was using 50%.What is this file,and should it be running and using so much of the cpu resources.:confused:
Dlitz
Pent 4 3 gig
512 meg ram
nvidea fx5200
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with me the only 2 programs you need are systray and explorer shut the rest down
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Get a copy of EndItAll - that will close down everything that's not needed - then open AH. :)
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Look in the task manager and see what percentage of CPU is being used by Aces High. It should be at 99% or better.
AH uses 98% - 99% on mine. The other 1% or 2 % go to task manager or CSRSS.EXE. It seems to be some kind of system file but i am curious if anyone knows what CSRSS.EXE is.
Thanks,
DJ229
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Process File: csrss or csrss.exe
Process Name: Client/Server Runtime Server Subsystem
Description: The Windows Client Server Runtime Subsystem handles Windows and Graphics Functions for all Subsystems
Common Errors: N/A
System Process: Yes
and there is an old virus which puts itself in the csrss.exe file check it here:
Virus Information for csrss.exe at symantec.com (http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.dalbug.worm.html)
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BlckMgk,
Thanks for info.
DJ229 - AIR MAFIA
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Originally posted by Dlitz
Hey Recon & Skuzzy i checked my task manager,and AH was using 50% and Rundll32.exe was using 50%.What is this file,and should it be running and using so much of the cpu resources.:confused:
Dlitz
Pent 4 3 gig
512 meg ram
nvidea fx5200
Usually Rundll32 running constantly with high CPU use indicates a virus/trojan/worm is operating on your computer. At other times it is an unfinished installation program wanting to complete its' job.
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What scJazz said. AH should be using 98% or higher, if all things are running correctly. Something is running on your computer and chewing up CPU time. Not good!
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So should I be concerned if my CPU is not at 98%? I'm 50% idle running AH and I have stinky frame rates even after driver oprimization and spyware cleaning.
P4 2.5
512meg
Gfrc 4 MMX 440 64(omega drivers)
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Yes Tillie. Microsoft engineered DX to run at maximum CPU percentages. This allows the best performance.
It also gives you a clue as to something being wrong with your system if DX cannot acquire over 95% of the CPU.
If you are only getting 50% CPU for AH/DX, then something is stealing a lot of CPU cycles, which would be other software running in background.
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Yes Tillie. Microsoft engineered DX to run at maximum CPU percentages. This allows the best performance.
It also gives you a clue as to something being wrong with your system if DX cannot acquire over 95% of the CPU.
If you are only getting 50% CPU for AH/DX, then something is stealing a lot of CPU cycles, which would be other software running in background.
does this hold true even for newer HT enabled machines like mine I get 2 cpu usage graphs and one is idle during ah play even though ah is all that is running .. I ask because in order to bench my system using Prime95 torture test I have to run 2 seperate instances of the program (open one normally and the other from the run dialog with this command to test this if you have a "C" class p-4 system ""C:\Program Files\Prime95\Prime95.exe" -a2") to reach 100 percent system capacity otherwise only 1 of the cpu's is used by that program which is designed to use all cpu cycles for the benchmarking process .. I suspect this is an exception to the AH displays 100% usage rule and should be noted for HT system users
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DX is not multi-threaded, so it will only use one CPU, regardless of hom many there are. The one CPU should show over 95% usage.
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Thanks for the reply Skuzzy.
It is true that AH is using only 50% of the CPU but the other 50% is idle. Thats the part that doesn't make sense. No other processes are taking more than 1% of the prcessors time. Yet my total processor usage never exceeds 60% even during very slow frame rate times. Any ideas?
This is on XP by the way.
Thx.
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If a process is not showing to use any CPU time, is not listed, then the CPU time usage is coming from the OS dealing with some external influence.
Such as network DOS attacks, some device driver (other than video) hung in a loop, interrupt floods from some hardware device, or a rather long list of other things.
Basically, the OS is using the CPU in handling with some external situation, which will not show in the process list. What does the "System Idle Process" show as its percentage? It is a clue that the OS is having to deal with something.
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When out of game, "System Idle Process" is 99%,
When in Game SIP is 50% and AH is 50%
Is this ok? any tips to fix would be welcome
S!
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I was finally able to verify that my SIP is also at 50% while playing AH also. I wonder why. :confused:
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Ok i have CPU usage percentage showing as 50% when in AH.
However i think the reason is its treating both threads of hyperthreading as 100% and if your only using in effect 1 cpu then the display shows only 50% as the total cpu usage.
In support of this the 2 graphs displayed for cpu usage, the thread in use shows around 90 - 95% peaking in the graph but the other thread of course is idling.
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Whoops...I'm on a single processor machine. Still 50% SIP.
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Sytem Idle of %50 is not good. This means there is something causing the OS to use up resources.
System idle should be 0 when AH is running, or any DX based program actually.
In normal circumstances, that is what should be happening. If your system is not doing that, then you need to dig deep and find out why. Could be a virus, a worm, an errant Windows process, a bad driver, or a malady of other things.
In a multi-threaded computer system, one of the CPU's should show more than 95% being used by AH and the CPU Idle for that CPU should be 0.
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For a multi threaded system the problem as far as i can see is it bundles both threads together to make a total of 100%, it does not show individual thread CPU idle resources.
However it does show individual thread CPU usage ie load but only on the graphs display.
So when one thread is running AH at 95% approx usage, you can expect the other thread to show near zero cpu usage.
Because the cpu idle process bundles both threads together it does of course show approx 50% idle process.
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Flossy can u help me out with becomeing a CM?.....Pls :)
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Nice thread hijack! :rofl See my reply to your other thread. :)