.16 forum test build cpu spike

[Duane Jones]

PZ has been largely fine for me up until now, but the new forum test version runs so slowly as to render it entirely unplayable. I check the device manager and my cpu is running at 100%. I've gone back to .15 and that runs just as flawlessly as before. Has anybody else had this problem with the new version? My PC's a bit ancient, but it's run the game perfectly before now. I'm rocking an AMD athlon 64 3200+ and a Geforce 9600 GT if that's any help.

[Duane Jones]

Excellent news!

[harakka]

I've been wondering when we'd get a first report like this. The rendering code in .16 runs in a separate thread, and you have a single-core processor. My guess is either the render or main thread isn't yielding properly / at all, and thus time-starving the other thread(s).

 

Would be interesting to hear from other single-core users whether this is a common issue among them, even though non-netbook single core processors are fairly ancient by now...

[Duane Jones]

Do I win a brand new gaming pc for being the first to report such a problem?

[dida55]

Same issues here, but I've reported it before

[lemmy101]

We're gonna make multi-thread rendering an option, and default it to off for single core machines