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[pavachan]

Yes, there's the temperature, that rises a bit, but aside from that, could it be that the 100% CPU usage people are seeing is a good thing? as in the game being extremely efficient in utilizing the the CPU, however many cores it has?

So far myself and others compared it to other games that dont use 100%, but Dragon Age seems to run flawlessly on my e5200, on my friend's Pentium 4 3.0ghz, and on another friend's Athlon 64 X2 3400 at max settings, with AA being set according to their graphics card's capabilities. (geforce 9600 is weak with AA, so there's an obvious slowdown when it's turned on above 1024*768 and 2xAA, but my 9800gt loses about 2fps if i go from 0xAA to 4xAA at 1680x1050).

So, maybe the game is in fact extrememly optimized to use up the CPU? especially if there are multiple cores? after all, the x360 and PS3 versions have to be optimized as such.

Your thoughts?

[JironGhrad]

the issue isn't so much that it can use all the CPU, but that when windows tries to take any of the processor cycles for other tasks it overloads and crashes the game

[pavachan]

When i alt-tab out of the game, it's still using 100%, but i also run Media Player classic on the 2nd screen with movies on, downloading things with utorrent or rapidshare, posting here obviously, and winamp sometimes. I cant say these are super taxing tasks, but so far i havent noticed any degredation in the overall performance of the system when the game is running.

[JironGhrad]

It's also related to the specific processors... most of the problems occur with AMD Phenom and X2 processors and the newest Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quads. Vista also shows up as the primary OS culprit (but that could be just that more people are now using it)