CPU Usage 100%

[Crono]

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]

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]

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]

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]

All DirectX based applications do this.

[Admins]

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.