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Quake 3: Hogging CPU Cycles

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Quake 3: Hogging CPU Cycles

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Post by Cride5 » Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:10 am

OK, I'm a full on quake 3 addict and I need quake to work perfectly, but I do not expect it use 99% of my CPU cycles.

This problem is not consistent, but every so ofen I run quake and it decides to whore 99.9% of the CPU? Has anyone else had this problem and is there a way to fix it?

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Post by whig » Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:14 am

I would say it's a feature - Q3A renders as many fps as it can. There is a command - maxfps - which may cause it to use less cpu cycles, but most people playing with the command set it 125 to get higher jumps.
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Post by zerojay » Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:57 pm

It's 100% normal for Quake, as well as most 3D games and emulators to do that.
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