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Lazuran
Gallente
Time And ISK Sink Corporation
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Posted - 2007.09.13 11:36:00 -
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Can anyone explain this to me? It burns about 30% CPU time on my AMD 3500+ and it doesn't seem to do anything.
isn't it funny how some people advocate both GTC<=>ISK trades and EVE being superior due to its cruelty and costly losses, when they use the former to circumvent the latter?
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Althea Nar'agh
StarHunt
Fallout Project
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Posted - 2007.09.13 11:49:00 -
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Since i ever saw eve, the logon screen has always been taking up more cpu then the game itself :p
Has to do something with the background image rendering...
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Tamia Clant
New Dawn Corp
New Eden Research
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Posted - 2007.09.13 11:55:00 -
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The new engine will supposedly use the graphics card for rendering, instead of the CPU.
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Shenko Minara
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Posted - 2007.09.13 11:57:00 -
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Eve's User Interface is poorly coded and is awfully resource hungry. The startup screen is just part and parcel of that.
press ctrl-tab during the game to turn the UI layer off and see the speed increase. vOv
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torswin
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Posted - 2007.09.13 11:57:00 -
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Edited by: torswin on 13/09/2007 11:57:27
It is because YOU haven't turned on Vertical Sync.
Now it tries to draw as many frames as it can, and thus eat your CPU.t t
Not to be hash or anything though. It's just not CCP's fault 
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Tamia Clant
New Dawn Corp
New Eden Research
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Posted - 2007.09.13 11:58:00 -
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 Originally by: torswin
Edited by: torswin on 13/09/2007 11:57:27
It is because YOU haven't turned on Vertical Sync.
Now it tries to draw as many frames as it can, and thus eat your CPU.t t
Not to be hash or anything though. It's just not CCP's fault
Where does one go and turn on vertical sync?
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Lazuran
Gallente
Time And ISK Sink Corporation
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Posted - 2007.09.13 12:00:00 -
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Yes, but why can't they just add a call to sleep() or something ... PCs with modern CPUs use up to 30W more or so with the CPU time used by ExeFile.exe, so a simple calculation yields:
25000 users x 30W x 1 hour = 750KWh burned every DT
that's 275.75MWh per year, not counting the irregular DTs (since I was generous with giving DTs 1 hour).
that amount of power costs approximately 40.000 Euros (power is a bit cheaper in the US I guess) and that's how much money this "bug" costs CCP's customers per year (it's not much compared to other costs and farting sheep harm the environment more, but still ... an unnecessary waste, right?).
isn't it funny how some people advocate both GTC<=>ISK trades and EVE being superior due to its cruelty and costly losses, when they use the former to circumvent the latter?
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Nanus Parkite
Mercenary Forces
Exquisite Malevolence
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Posted - 2007.09.13 12:03:00 -
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Or you could just exit the client during downtime and use EVEMon to tell you when the server comes up.
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midge Mo'yb
R.U.S.T.
Phalanx Alliance
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Posted - 2007.09.13 12:06:00 -
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Originally by: Lazuran
Yes, but why can't they just add a call to sleep() or something ... PCs with modern CPUs use up to 30W more or so with the CPU time used by ExeFile.exe, so a simple calculation yields:
25000 users x 30W x 1 hour = 750KWh burned every DT
that's 275.75MWh per year, not counting the irregular DTs (since I was generous with giving DTs 1 hour).
that amount of power costs approximately 40.000 Euros (power is a bit cheaper in the US I guess) and that's how much money this "bug" costs CCP's customers per year (it's not much compared to other costs and farting sheep harm the environment more, but still ... an unnecessary waste, right?).
or you could close your client... or better yet turn off your pc if your not using it...
i jus tcant beleive your whining about that..
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torswin
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Posted - 2007.09.13 12:18:00 -
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Edited by: torswin on 13/09/2007 12:18:29
Originally by: Tamia Clant
Where does one go and turn on vertical sync?
in your graphic card's control panel.
ATI catalyst center or nVidia something. At school so can't give detailed info
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SexxxSlave
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Posted - 2007.09.13 12:21:00 -
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Originally by: torswin
Edited by: torswin on 13/09/2007 11:57:27
It is because YOU haven't turned on Vertical Sync.
Now it tries to draw as many frames as it can, and thus eat your CPU.t t
Not to be hash or anything though. It's just not CCP's fault
where do we turn on v-synch again? video card drivers?
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torswin
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Posted - 2007.09.13 12:31:00 -
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Edited by: torswin on 13/09/2007 12:31:28
yep, but your FPS will be capped at around your monitor's Hz rate (60-75-ish for LCD monitors)
cant give a detailed how-to 'cause im at school where i run linux
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Helison
Gallente
Times of Ancar
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Posted - 2007.09.13 12:32:00 -
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This behaviour wasnŠt there in the beginning of Eve, but started in one of the last major expansions. It was either Revelations 1 or one the releases before (Red Moon Rising or Dragon?).
IŠve still an old client on my HD (I think from Exodus), which doesnŠt use as much CPU at login-screen.
But IŠve read anywhere (last Devblog?), that CCP plans to release a new patcher and login-screen in the next patch, which could resolve this prob.
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Wyehr
Shadow Of The Light
R i s e
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Posted - 2007.09.13 13:25:00 -
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Originally by: torswin
yep, but your FPS will be capped at around your monitor's Hz rate (60-75-ish for LCD monitors)
This is a definition, not an insight.
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OV Marius
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.09.13 14:24:00 -
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Originally by: Lazuran
Can anyone explain this to me? It burns about 30% CPU time on my AMD 3500+ and it doesn't seem to do anything.
That's how games tend to work. Games want to have 100% CPU time of your PC, so the game can run smoothly.
Just look it up when you play another game, most of them will use 100% or 50% CPU time even while they're doing nothing (e.g. inside main menu).
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Frug
Zenithal Harvest
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Posted - 2007.09.13 14:42:00 -
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It has nothing to do with v-synch. Don't bother.
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Amarr
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Posted - 2007.09.14 10:55:00 -
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Originally by: OV Marius
Originally by: Lazuran
Can anyone explain this to me? It burns about 30% CPU time on my AMD 3500+ and it doesn't seem to do anything.
That's how games tend to work. Games want to have 100% CPU time of your PC, so the game can run smoothly.
The login screen has nothing to do with the game running smoothly.
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