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Firstly, I'd like to say how brilliant the α is, it works really well, and I look forward to the next few months (once my exams are over, anyway)

I don't have a hugely powerful CPU (Phenom II 965), and the framerate in the game is not great. I realise it's not hugely important in a TBS, but it's still annoying.

I had a look at the CPU usage of the game, and I found that two threads were occupying ~100% of a CPU core's time each. This happens in the main menu as well. A screenshot showing this can be seen at https://www.dropbox.com/s/gyb05gicvrmr3sr/Galciv-Threads.png

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to find the names of threads, but I'm sure there is a way to find out (assuming Windows allows threads to have names).

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Reply #26 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting EvilMaxWar, reply 25


I have the same processor as you. It would probably start getting relevant even for us once we start playing immense galaxies with hundreds of ships moving about.  Hopefully SD will have the thing optimized by then.
End of EvilMaxWar's quote

Hadn't thought of that :O This puts the issue into a whole new light!

Stardock fix nao! My personal comfort is at risk!

jk

But really, I hadn't considered larger maps. This is a very serious problem.

Reply #27 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

My I7-4770 is running about 30% ± 3% across all cores.

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Reply #28 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Seems to be stressing my i5 - 4670K fairly evenly core wise 50-60% usage,  the game does seem to be pushing it more than most but I am sure this is mostly due to optimization as previously mentioned.

 

Would actually be totally fine (and I am somewhat expecting) some of the larger, busier maps to really start pushing it, not many games do.

Reply #29 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Finally got around to seeing how much of my 8 cores get used and by how much. For an Alpha I was surprised that it was using all 8 cores, though cores 2 and 8 seem to be the lowest utilized so far, typically hovering around the 5-25% rate, while cores 4, 5, and 7 seem to get the most usage, being typically in the 70 percentile range throughout. Overall CPU usage tends to stay between 45-49%. The temps do get quite high though but nothing that I haven't seen before or that this CPU can't handle- 70s and 80s Celsius.

Edited to add system info:

P8Z68 Deluxe, i7 2700k @4.7GHz, EVGA GTX570HD 314.22s, 16gb DDR3 2130, 1000W PS, Onboard sound, 32" Bravia XBR, Win7Pro64

Reply #30 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have an explanation for why the main menu is eating so many CPU cycles.  The AI is analysing the last game you played and preparing snarky comments. ;)