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[revlisoft]

I have a Gateway P6860FX with 4GB memory and a 8800M GTS video card running on Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit.  The CPU is always around 100% (both cores)  but the game runs but it's sometimes laggy.  Here are a few things I have tried

- Create a shortcut to have the daorigins.exe run in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode
- Install the latest nVidia drivers
- Disable Pysx GPU acceleration
- Switch to fullscreen/windowed mode
- Used laatidosetup to change the large memory awareness
- Patched to 1.0.1


Anything else that can be tried?  I heard it only affects a subset of users.  Am I correct to assume that for the users that have this working their CPU isn't pegged at 100%?

Modifié par revlisoft, 14 novembre 2009 - 01:42 .

[Moyira]

Are you running Vista, Windows 7 or XP? Have you done a virus/spyware scan? Have you checked to see if your hard drives are running in DMA or in PIO? (You want them in DMA, if they are in PIO, CPU will run at 100%.)

[Stakati Dragon-Killer]

Moyira, can you explain how this change is done? I am having the same problem.

[Hammersmithblues]

Directly from MS...

To enable DMA mode using the Device Manager1.Open Device Manager.2.Double-click IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers to display the list of controllers and channels.3.Right-click the icon for the channel to which the device is connected, select Properties, and then click the Advanced Settings tab.4.In the Current Transfer Mode drop-down box, select DMA if Available if the current setting is "PIO Only."

If the drop-down box already shows "DMA if Available" but the current
transfer mode is PIO, then the user must toggle the settings. That is: •Change the selection from "DMA if available" to PIO only, and click OK.•Then repeat the steps above to change the selection to DMA if Available.
You probably should be looking at PRIMARY IDE CHANNEL when you are examining the list of controllers.

[Stakati Dragon-Killer]

I have Windows VISTA and the Storage controller is a Intel® 82801HR/HH/HO SATA RAID Controller. The only buttons I have available under the Driver Tab is {Driver Details} Which is just an info page and {Update Driver} And it is updated. I looked through the whole list under the Device manage and see nothing that says IDE ATA/ATAPI. I have a DELL 410 Modified. Need anything else?

[Moyira]

Stakati Dragon-Killer wrote...

I have Windows VISTA and the Storage controller is a Intel® 82801HR/HH/HO SATA RAID Controller. The only buttons I have available under the Driver Tab is {Driver Details} Which is just an info page and {Update Driver} And it is updated. I looked through the whole list under the Device manage and see nothing that says IDE ATA/ATAPI. I have a DELL 410 Modified. Need anything else?

Really?  I've never seen a computer without IDE controllers listed under the device manager.  Not quite sure what it could be for you then.  I use SATA drives and I still have an IDE controller.  

Usually the IDE controllers are just underneat the Human Interface Devices.

[metradon111111111111]

Not sure how you think that hard drives would have anything to do with CPU loads. Shouldn't have anything to do with it.



I have the same 100% cpu load issue. I just limit the game to 1 core. It still seems to use some of the second core for whatever reason (at least that is what task manager says). But it keeps the cpu load down to 60-65%. I get zero performance hits doing this. Game still runs smooth as silk. No noticable increased load times. Makes you wonder what the game is processing to take up all that extra power. Perhaps there is a debug mode still running?



System:

XP 32bit

amd athlon 5200+ 64 x2

2gig ram

nvidia 9800 gt



Oh i reinstalled to get rid of the new patch. The patch caused more problems than I had.

[metradon111111111111]

Oh you could try forcing verticle sync and triple buffering in the Nvidia settings. Might smooth performance for you.

[Hrtlsmoe]

tried this does'nt do nothing for me.. switch my primary and secondary to what you suggested..

[Hrtlsmoe]

metradon does it get rid of the 100% cpu problem when you reinstalled?

[Pretorian]

Is anyone not actually getting 100% cpu usage? Is it just how the game engine was designed, to just use every single possible part of your cpu?

[Hrtlsmoe]

i hope not that's probably why people are getting choppy gameplay ... maby because of the 100% cpu usage

[Pretorian]

The game even uses 100% cpu usage on the main menu. I don't think the main menu is such a cpu intensive area...

[metradon111111111111]

Hrtlsmoe wrote...

metradon does it get rid of the 100% cpu problem when you reinstalled?

Nah. It didn't unfortunately. Just forced it to one core so that it's not using everything. Even though theoretically only using half my cpu should place my game well under suggested or required specs, the game does not perform any worse. Thats as compared to using both cores. I find this mind boggling.

[metradon111111111111]

NinjaPret wrote...

The game even uses 100% cpu usage on the main menu. I don't think the main menu is such a cpu intensive area...

I agree. Only virii use up all of a systems resources arbitrarily. Well you could say its not arbitrary cuase that's what they are designed to do. I would really like to know what this game could be processing that takes up all those extra processes. It's like the employee that is doing stuff just to look busy. lol.

[Moyira]

I do not know why the hard drive being in PIO mode causes computers to read at 100% cpu, but it does. Used to happen on my laptop all the time, and there weren't any viruses or spyware on the laptop, because the laptop never went on the internet.



I do agree with metradon though. Putting the affinity of the game to one core does get rid of a lot of issues. I've been wondering if maybe the coding for multiple core usage has a leak in it somewhere, and if setting it to just one core takes care of that.



Also, for all those with NVIDIA, you could try to turn off PhysX.

[atom1cs]

Setting the Affinity for the DAOrigins process to 1 processes changed my CPU usage from 100% to 50%.



Intel Core 2 Duo

Nvidia 295 gtx

4 gigs of ram

Asus Striker II NSE mobo



Seems this "leak" or whatever it is, is associated with multiple cores, hopefully they fix it soon eh?

[gringo404me]

I'm having the same problem, but when I set the affinity to one, that one maxes out, using windows 7 and AMD Phenom II X2 550 3.1mh, and I'm not noticing any difference in gameplay

Modifié par gringo404me, 07 décembre 2009 - 08:43 .