SC using 100% of CPU

[terrorstraits]

Strategic Command is using 100% of the CPU from the moment I start the game. Even when the game is on the start up screen. This is causing my system to overheat after about 15minutes and crash.

Any idea how to ease up on the CPU utilization?

Thanx

[Hungry Joe]

Hi,

Don't know what CPU you've got, but I've had ongoing heat problems with my 1.4 Athlon Thunderbird. I put an extractor fan in the box and this seems to have solved most of the problems. However, SC does seem to really push the CPU, and with the current (all too rare) heatwave we've got in England atm, I've had to run it with the side off the case to let the heat out. This is particularly applicable if you don't have a full size tower, as the airflow from the case fan is often not great.

I've got a feeling that the heavy CPU usage probably comes from SC being very optimised for lower end machines.

[Hubert Cater]

OK I've found the culprit and I'm taking a look at it now.

Hubert

[Hubert Cater]

Can either of you send me an email at support@furysoftware.com, I may have a solution to the CPU problem.

Hubert

[terrorstraits]

I also have an Athlon 1.4 thunderbird. Possible issue there. Purchased an INSERT fan and that lowered the temp enough to play SC. I would like a resolution though.

[Hubert Cater]

Seems as though the adjustments on the latest patch caused the memory leaks, so the current SC patch v1.03 is back to it's original setup with respect to the CPU. I'll still be taking a look at it and let you know what I come up with.

Hubert

[Gregory Barnard]

Not sure if this is relevent, but when I had the wrong device driver for my sound card I saw very high CPU utilization from SC.

[terrorstraits]

I applied the 1.03 patch and the CPU utilization has moderated. It goes to 100% during the computer's turn but drops to near zero while it is wait for me to do something. I have not experience the memory leak yet...

[Hubert Cater]

OK sounds like you have the first version of patch v1.03, this was as you've probably seen a strange patch of sorts as it caused some huge problems on some systems and nada on others... mine included. If it seems to run fine then I wouldn't worry but if you want to be on the safe side probably best to apply the second version of the patch, although it does use the high CPU cycles so it might be a bit of a toss up.

Hubert

[Garvey123]

On win XP how do you check memory usage once SC has started up.

Thanks smile.gif

[Der_Waggs]

On XP ht control alt del keys at the same time when the menu pops up you will see a tab that will display cpu usage