How did you succeed at making this small game use 100% cpu and cook my high end laptop?

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How did you succeed at making this small game use 100% cpu and cook my high end laptop?

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:?

And I guess a lot of the CPU strain comes from sitting in the lobby, where we cannot turn the shellmap off anymore like in previous versions. Why was that feature removed?

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Re: How did you succeed at making this small game use 100% cpu and cook my high end laptop?

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The shellmap animation can be disabled through the Settings -> Display -> Pause Menu Background option.

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Re: How did you succeed at making this small game use 100% cpu and cook my high end laptop?

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Sleipnir wrote:
Wed Mar 09, 2022 11:01 am
The shellmap animation can be disabled through the Settings -> Display -> Pause Menu Background option.
Ok, tried that.

It's way worse than the old "disable shellmap" option.

And it makes no difference, OpenRA already cooks my CPU in the lobby, even with paused shellmap. As far as I know it does this for everyone too.

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Re: How did you succeed at making this small game use 100% cpu and cook my high end laptop?

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I know, it's ridiculous. In my case I get high GPU usage. It doesn't make sense. Especially since, from what I've read, it didn't used to do that. I don't get it.

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Re: How did you succeed at making this small game use 100% cpu and cook my high end laptop?

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Hmm, I get 30-50% CPU use, which honestly isn't a lot (if you have more than one core, that is).

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Re: How did you succeed at making this small game use 100% cpu and cook my high end laptop?

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tux wrote:
Fri Mar 11, 2022 6:00 am
Hmm, I get 30-50% CPU use, which honestly isn't a lot (if you have more than one core, that is).
It is a lot.

Did devs put a hidden bitcoin miner in this?

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Re: How did you succeed at making this small game use 100% cpu and cook my high end laptop?

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ffxffxff wrote:
Sat Mar 19, 2022 2:40 pm
Did devs put a hidden bitcoin miner in this?
You can look through the code yourself at https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/.

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Re: How did you succeed at making this small game use 100% cpu and cook my high end laptop?

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sounds like a computer problem.

Newest release for me is like 15% CPU and 20% GPU

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