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Wth is happening here: last month i noticed the high ram usage and now i see that after the patch my CPU usage has gone up to 100%???
I always monitor my pc and when today i started off hearing the fans screaming i decided to see what was going on: when AC is the main window the CPU usage jumps to 100%, when Task Manager is the main window and AC is running in background the memory usage drops to 9%.
I am kinda desperate....this will lead me to leave this game: i am not going to burn 2 pcs because they are messing up.
Btw it's not Decal related: the CPU usage is the same with or without decal loaded.
2 pcs with 1 Gb Ram, processors Pentium 4 3.4 Ghz and Athlon Xp 2.4 Ghz, video cards ATI 256 Mb.
This is plain stupid.
Anyone else noticed the same?
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you aren't gonna burn up a cpu running at 100%. I have run pc's folding at 100% 24/7 for over a year.
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Well, this is the first time i see my pc running at 100%, and hearing the fans working at max speed means that the heat developed is high, too high.
I wouldn't be so sure there is not the risk of over heating the processor.
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I have 4 pcs setup here. No problems without decal. 2 running ATI card, the other 2 running Nvidia cards. Systems are p4 3ghz, 1gb ram, 256mb on the video cards.
I do have problem though when I run new version decal. Soon I start using the plugins, If I alt tab out of game or in game ac uses 100% cpu. When no Decal, works fine.
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Check to see if you are usnig the high-res graphics.
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No high res here 
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This has been a problem since alpha decal and alpha plugins came out. My suspicion is that because these ARE alphas they are not loading themselves into memory as efficiently as they did (they're just not "cooked fully" yet  ). I've noted when I run decal/plugins my cpu usage is considerably higher than without - I also have more noticeable lag than without. I figure it will all clear itself up when the finals are released in the future. I've not noticed a great deal of difference from one graphics setting to another - my vid card is handling those nicely.
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Decal/Plugins are actually putting less of a load on the graphics now than with the old version. The Bugs are in the AC client.
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Shouldn't the CPU be at 100% when playing, I mean the client is designed to run as fast as possible.
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I can play Lineage 2 and never go above 50%.
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/me refrains from the obvious L2 joke
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Actually, you can burn out a PC running at 100% for long periods of time if either of these conditions are true:
1) You are overclocking your CPU
2) You have insufficient cooling on the CPU and mainboard chipsets (particularly the northbridge.)
Factory cooling for budget PC's are notorious, higher end generally okay.
In any case, I am not seeing my CPU at 100% while playing AC, more like 40%, which is ~5% higher than last month.
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I've never seen AC run under 100% cpu usage while it's the active window... with or without Decal running. I always run AC in windowed @ max graphics and res. Even when I turn all the graphic settings/resolution all the way down I still get 100%.
My PC is an AMD 64 3000 (slightly oc'd, only to 2ghz), 1gig 3200 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 vid. My PC never gets above normal temps (~120F) with a Thermaltak HSF. Even when I was running a AMD K7 2600 oc'd to 2800 with a Zelman Copper Flower HSF I was getting 100% CPU and lower than normal temps.
All I know is since I've started watching CPU usage (about a year now) with 2 PCs, its never dropped under 100% unless I alt-tab to another window... I can also run dual clients all day long with no problem, heat or otherwise.
*shrug* who knows?
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Under Config Screen in AC, under Graphics Options, I checked on Sync with Refresh Rate, seems to fix my problem at least. Someone on Decal boards suggested this.
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I've always had that since ToD with no change on my side... After posting yesterday I tried to go into full screen mode to see if there was any change and there was........ CPU when to around 85-95%.
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When it's the active window mine often uses between 75-100% CPU. Inactive it uses much, much less. It's not really a big deal if your case & CPU have decent cooling, and by that I don't mean water-cooling or anything extravagant. Modern CPU fans are usually controlled through the motherboard and spin faster when the CPU is under a heavier load. It's really nothing to worry about, your CPU isn't going to melt under a full load. I've run a program for a few years (Folding@Home, same as Zxoltar) that uses all available CPU cycles so my CPU is always at 100% load and haven't had any adverse effects.
That's not to say that the AC client couldn't use some major optimization, though.
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There must ahve been at least 3 posts about ATI cards using outrageous system resources this week.
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Just as a note, PCs are always at 100% CPU utilization. The CPU can not stop, so it always doing something.
When you look at CPU utilization, you are trying what percentage of the time the CPU is doing useful (or supposely useful) work. You want your PC to spend perhaps 10% minimium CPU time running the System Idle Process. That gives your PC the ability respond quickly to demands from the various tasks on your PC.
When the System Idle Process drops to 1 or 0%, then your PC is overloaded trying to do everything you asked and can not keep up. This is not good. It will not burn out your PC though assuming that the cooling fans and air flow adequate.
The only reason for bringing the possibility of a heat issue up is that System Idle Process does not put much of a load on your graphics card. If you have a heavy graphics application (e.g. a game) driving your video card and floating point processing real hard you might run into a heat issue. However, this heat issue going to bite you eventually anyway.
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Lower your refresh rate.
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