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BleacherBum · 03-12-2002, 07:31 AM

"Its the memory that this game soaks up, causing the CPU slow down, the database is quite large and for the game to run with any decent speed, the database must be stored in memory."

I don't agree with this assessment. Its fine if the game loads a bunch of data in memory. There's still no reason to pin the processor if the game isn't doing anything with that data. Note that my CPU hits 100% constantly, while the game sits on the opening page, or the league setup page. In fact I haven't started a season yet (just bought it last night) and this problem is persistent.

The memory footprint that I witness on game load is around 40MB - my machine has 256MB. I can run other applications (separately) that hog as much or more memory, but they don't constantly pin the processor.

Your comments regarding known conflicts with other programs are interesting - any more detail here? I do have the Norton virus and firewall programs, but those were immediate suspects in my testing and unfortunately shutting them off did not change the behavior of OOTP.

03-12-2002, 07:31 AM	#46
BleacherBum All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 672	"Its the memory that this game soaks up, causing the CPU slow down, the database is quite large and for the game to run with any decent speed, the database must be stored in memory." I don't agree with this assessment. Its fine if the game loads a bunch of data in memory. There's still no reason to pin the processor if the game isn't doing anything with that data. Note that my CPU hits 100% constantly, while the game sits on the opening page, or the league setup page. In fact I haven't started a season yet (just bought it last night) and this problem is persistent. The memory footprint that I witness on game load is around 40MB - my machine has 256MB. I can run other applications (separately) that hog as much or more memory, but they don't constantly pin the processor. Your comments regarding known conflicts with other programs are interesting - any more detail here? I do have the Norton virus and firewall programs, but those were immediate suspects in my testing and unfortunately shutting them off did not change the behavior of OOTP. __________________ Right Field Sucks!