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Old 05-31-2006, 07:48 PM   #3
Kelric
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Originally Posted by Erithtotl
I have found after playing the game for only a short time, that when the game is idle (i.e., nothing happening at all except the news ticker scrolling by, you can even walk away from the PC for several minutes), the game eats up %50 of your current CPU. The only reason its not more I'm guessing is that the SI engine throttles usage to %50 (I've noticed this with Football Manager).

As this happens, the UI becomes slow and unresponsive, often requiring the user to click mutliple times just to activate a function. Reloading the game briefly solves this problem but it quickly returns back to %50 usage.
OOTP is at around 80-90% of my CPU right now after letting it idle for about the last 30 minutes with only sporatic use. Like you said, it makes it really slow and unresponsive.
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