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Lord Pelivar
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Posted - 2007.08.02 15:32:00 -
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Ever since the recent patches my laptop has been running extremely hot and also using %100 it never used to.
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VASSAKAR
Red Sun Technologies
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Posted - 2007.08.02 15:56:00 -
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 Originally by: Zepher8062
Edited by: Zepher8062 on 02/08/2007 14:35:19
Originally by: Akita T
Originally by: Zepher8062
I dont really have the problem with my CPU and what not but I would be interested if someone could walk me through how to do this advanced setup in the config file, preferably listing the file paths and such.
XP users look in
C:\Documents and Settings\<YourWinUserName>\Local Settings\Application Data\CCP\EVE\settings\prefs.ini
add this to the start of the file:
advancedDevice=1
audio=0
buffersize=512
First line enables "advanced" graphics options.
Second line disables sound in EVE (you don't really need sound, do you ?)
Third line sets EVE to use up to 512 MB of RAM (default is 80).
Vista users ?
Find the path yourself.
Tweaking that file won't help YOU much anyway.
Thanks a bunch. Appreciate the help.
"The variable buffersize in prefs.ini doesn't actually do anything anymore. It used to control the size of the internal audio mixing buffer (the default value was 80 ms) but has no effect now."
Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson
Software Director
EVE Online, CCP Games
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Slythought
Sly Inc
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Posted - 2007.08.02 16:02:00 -
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Edited by: Slythought on 02/08/2007 16:03:34
Originally by: Andrue
Originally by: Pabs Sco
Excactly, why does changing the focus cause the spike in CPU?
It's a feature of Windows. It prioritises foreground tasks and when you switch away or from a task it does some housekeeping. ....
No its not a Windows issue, if I switch to another task say, oh Firefox, it does not have 100% usage.
I understand that many games use 100% usage WHILE processing task, but at login screen for EVE wtf is it processing?? In station whats it processing??
Before the latest patch Eve used 40-55% CPU Usage. It only uised 100% in laggy missions or fleet battles.
EDIT:
I'm not home from work yet, I'll try the prefs.ini update to see if it fixes it.
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R'olyat
Gallente
Four Rings
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Posted - 2007.08.02 16:39:00 -
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Well I just tried it on my laptop with vista and it runs fine....WTF. I'm so confused.
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Cypherous
Minmatar
Liberty Rogues
Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate
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Posted - 2007.08.02 17:46:00 -
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Originally by: Contralto
I have a dual core Amd 4400, if I set eve to use core 0 or 1 only, it uses 100% of that core all the time, set it to use both cores and it settles at about 40% to 70% depending on what I am doing. sometimes it is evenly balanced between the cores but on occasions one core will dip and the other rise to as much as 90% but only momentarily. I run a truck load of other junk in the background.
EVE doesn't support multiple cores so that shouldn't make a diffence on anything unless you're running multiple clients and forcing them to different cores, i'm running a 5600+ and for some reason recently EVE only seems to be using 50% on my processor which is pretty neato it used to sit at 80ish kudo's, as was pointed out windows will shift all the background tasks to the second core if EVE starts to take use of one of the cores itself its windows just maximising system resources and reallocating what its allowed to and actually this has been known to cause a number of older games to fail to work correctly with dual core systems but most of those are very old or have been patched EVE doesn't afaik have any support for dual cores or hyperthreading.
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GPerson
Gallente
The Scope
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Posted - 2007.08.02 18:02:00 -
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Originally by: ZenTex
Checking my own client, it also went from 85199%.
Nice overclock there. 
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Caldari
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Posted - 2007.08.02 18:03:00 -
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WinXP SP2 here.. C2D E6850 and my cpu is about 30% when I'm in npc hunting with all effects on ( only 1 client ).
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Posted - 2007.08.02 18:16:00 -
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Originally by: Slythought
Edited by: Slythought on 02/08/2007 16:03:34
Originally by: Andrue
Originally by: Pabs Sco
Excactly, why does changing the focus cause the spike in CPU?
It's a feature of Windows. It prioritises foreground tasks and when you switch away or from a task it does some housekeeping. ....
No its not a Windows issue, if I switch to another task say, oh Firefox, it does not have 100% usage.
I understand that many games use 100% usage WHILE processing task, but at login screen for EVE wtf is it processing?? In station whats it processing??
Before the latest patch Eve used 40-55% CPU Usage. It only uised 100% in laggy missions or fleet battles.
EDIT:
I'm not home from work yet, I'll try the prefs.ini update to see if it fixes it.
Its processing the graphics. you know, that nice 3d space scene at the login prompt? Graphics are NOT free you know. force v-sync on, and youll see cpu usuage drop.
As for focus or not focus....you can configure windows to optimize things for foreground or background aps. you have likely seen this option yourself. Its obvious why it does this, and why it SHOULD do this...it lets you do stuff when EVE is not the focus...because obviously, if eve is not the focus, you WANT to do something else at that moment.
but in short, all things being equal, EVE and all games will use as much cpu as possible to draw as many frames per second as possible all the time, unless you limit them, or something internal limits them (AI, network comms, hi polygon counts makes the graphics card choke) graphics in eve are surprisingly simple....so the graphics card is usually not the bottleneck in most situations.
makes you wonder how many fps you are getting at the login screen tho.
real question is...why did you spend all that money on a fancy computer, only to want games to NOT take full advantage of it?
Originally by: Snuggly
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Sekhen
Caldari
Thundercats
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2007.08.02 20:25:00 -
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On Topic:
Eve in fullscreen will use as much CPU as it can get its cold dirty fingers on. Just like 99.99% of all other games around.
In window mode its very different depending on hardware setup. But it will most likley drop, because it will start using Vertical Sync.
Slighly off topic:
Originally by: Synnyr
I run Vista 32-bit and have an AM2 6000+ x 2 CPU. When playing EVE I consistently have about 75% usage on both cores with RAM holding steady at about 33 percent (of 4 Gig).
How in the Royal pants of the amarr emperor do you do?
So far I havent seen a single 32bit operating system find anyting over 3GB of RAM.
I'm pretty sure you need a 64bit OS to get anything over 3GB of RAM used.
So sure I have to ask you how you make a 32bit OS use 4GB RAM.
If your to shy to tell on the boards, eve-mail me.
I must know. I really do!
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Posted - 2007.08.02 20:45:00 -
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Perhaps you should install a named or T2 Co-Processor (sorry, couldn't resist)
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