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Crono
01-17-2004, 10:27 PM
When I open Graal, my CPU Usage jumps to 100%. Is this normal? Even when im on the starting menu it's at 100% and brings my poor little amd athlon 2700+ to 65 C..then again it's always like that when cpu usage is at max.

Specs-

AMD Athlon 2700+ @ 2.17ghz
Arctic Cooling Copper Silient 2 Rev 2
256DDR PC2700 Original Apacer
ATI Radeon 7500LE 64DDR PCI <-- sucks I know
ASUS A7V8X-X(LAN)
Windows 2000 Pro

Yes my drivers and bios are updated.

Judge_S
01-17-2004, 10:56 PM
I was told long ago (when I brought this point up) that Graal is designed to use all available CPU speed. I forget the reasoning, but I believe it was a sound one.

Crono
01-17-2004, 11:07 PM
Ugh. It will be hard for me to play graal then. I dont want my Processor burning itself up. Is there a way to lower the CPU Usage for graal? I dont think graal needs 2.17 GHZ.

Judge_S
01-18-2004, 12:54 AM
Originally posted by Gerami
Ugh. It will be hard for me to play graal then. I dont want my Processor burning itself up. Is there a way to lower the CPU Usage for graal? I dont think graal needs 2.17 GHZ.
You could lower Graal's priority, but that might make your system unstable.

Thought
01-18-2004, 01:41 AM
All DirectX based applications do this.

Admins
01-21-2004, 04:44 PM
Yes it is actually not using the cpu, just waiting for doing good timing so the game doesn't look jumpy. Windows is displaying the used cpu time wrong I guess, at least I could start more than 30 Graals on my computer.