Continuum uses 100% CPU near walls

[Guest aliera]

Like it sounds, continuum uses 100% CPU when i'm in a base or large safe zone. If there's just a little wall, it uses less, but the more walls the worse it gets.

 

I tried toggling some of the graphics options off, forcing walls into system memory and such, and it didn't help at all.

 

I'm not sure what system specs of mine would be useful, but I have a 1.4Ghz Athlon and a Radeon 9600xt graphics card. Any suggestions would be appreciated ^^;

[50% Packetloss]

Your computer is plenty fast to display something such as walls. Try at the main menu, view->Advanced Options, then check the "Avoid Page Flipping" box, then press OK. Also you can try view->options->Graphics and put color depth to 8. In-game you can see your frame rate by pressing ESC + f.

[»SOS]

Well first of all... what's the problem? Why should it not use 100%? That's perfectly normal for most games.

 

But if you really want to decrease it, make sure "no framerate limit" and "software emulation" are both off in advanced options. Also enable VSync if you know how (it should be in the video card settings in your control panel).

[Guest Aliera]

Thanks for the advice, but it didn't work :/

 

It can't stay at 100% for too long, or else it overheats, unfortunately. Most games it doesn't have any problem though.

 

VSync was already enabled... I tried the other options by themselves and in combination (horizontal sync and composite) and they just made things worse (100% all the time or, -100% instead of 0-100%)

 

No framerate limit and software emulation were already off.. Color depth at 8.

 

Avoid Page flipping had no effect

[»SOS]

Please post your system specs by doing the following:

 

start->run->msinfo32

 

In that program, just use file->save and attach the file to a post.

[Samapico]

it uses 100%... but do you get a low FPS? My FPS goes down ALOT when there are alot of tiles to show up... (PIII 550MHz 128RAM) It's not really a problem tho...

[Bajan]

it is possible your graphics card isn't working at all and dumping all the graphic work onto the cpu.

 

a typical but important factor to check, graphics drivers.

 

could you recall when this started? what settings you might have been changing on your computer, any settings?

[50% Packetloss]

Hold on...your computer overheats? Is there something wrong with the fan?

[Guest Aliera]

Please post your system specs by doing the following:

 

start->run->msinfo32

 

In that program, just use file->save and attach the file to a post.

It's attached. Seems to me that much information is an overkill, but hopefully there's something useful in there.

 

 

it uses 100%... but do you get a low FPS? My FPS goes down ALOT when there are alot of tiles to show up... (PIII 550MHz 128RAM) It's not really a problem tho...

 

I just checked, and yup, it does. Mostly open space it goes to about 200 fps, in a base 100 and in the large center safe, 60 fps.

 

it is possible your graphics card isn't working at all and dumping all the graphic work onto the cpu.

 

a typical but important factor to check, graphics drivers.

 

could you recall when this started? what settings you might have been changing on your computer, any settings?

I just went out and updated my driver. It's a bit less sensitive to walls now, at least. It's been a problem for a while.. first noticed it last summer, and haven't been playing much continuum until recently. I'm not sure if it started when I got my new graphics card, or when i updated to continuum 0.38.

 

Lately, I got a new monitor since the old one was dying... installed it recently so that could be contributing.

 

 

Hold on...your computer overheats? Is there something wrong with the fan?

 

Well, one of the little fans died a while back.. CPU fan is fine, but it's really dusty. And I'm embarr!@#$%^&*ed to say i checked just now to find out the case fan, that fits in the slot below the graphics card, is dead.. Going to be doing a little fan shopping this weekend... maybe even a little dusting

[The Maurauder]

Thats your problem. Install some new fans and get the dust off of your cpu fan. If you keep your case dust free and well-ventilated, then your problem should be solved.

[Guest Aliera]

Sure, I will try and do that. But i think there's a graphics related problem, because i've noticed this 100% CPU thing in other games that really shouldn't be needing half that much..

[»SOS]

Well yeah, it should not take up 100%... but maybe your CPU is just totally fried because of bad cooling? Or it is set at 200mhz or something?