avast and spybot s&d

norton 360 and some other programs run anti virus sweeps when your idle, i wonder if it could be something like that.

That is odd. I have an old P4 HT and it tanks this game like a pro for some reason.

I also just noticed that memory usage is at 391,768 K.

i have dual core and the game just eats one cpu the entire time no matter what the games doing

i should probably add that my game runs perfectly fine, its just odd that it eats an entire cpu

mine use 50% of cpu and about over 1 gb of memory
on dual core intel 3,2

Decided to OC my 5800+ from 2.8 to 3.0, and it was a crazy improvement. The game does just slam one core so I would think a single core over 3 may well be better than a dual core under 3. At least this is what I am seeing atm.

freaking wierd as i normally OC the vid and don't worry so much about the CPU. My PSU can really only OC one or the other without me worrying about it. Now when i go from Crysis to Sins I got a ton of things to tweak, this will become annoying very soon, but you do what you gotta.

KP

I have it clocked at 3.4

It had serious problems with Supreme Commander, but it does very well on here despite the pretty large scale of Sins.

But yeah, the responses here are a pretty good indication that Sins does not fully exploit C2D tech.

The Game Seriously crunches ur CPU and RAM i had to get superfetch batch File patch for Vista 32 in order for it to stop all idle able programs when Sins is running

2.1 Ghz Athlon 64 x2
512mb ATI (VisionTek (best 1 outside ATI proper)) Radeon x1650
2gb Ram (Game Performance Cards)


The Batch i use is:

NET STOP SuperFetch
START / WAIT "C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Sins of a Solar Empire"
NET START SuperFetch

Copy it on notepad and save it as a .Bat to your desktop and that should alleviate some issues with alt tab, Ctrl alt del, and whatnot. I used it for alot of cpu intensive nut busters like Crysis and Sins.

My game locks up at least once sometimes twice on really long games. Every thing just freezes for a 20-30 seconds the just picks up from where it froze and i can just keep right on playing.
This is in a solo game as I have yet to play multi-player.

Would like to point out, you're high Thoumsin when it comes to games/apps that don't use multi-threading or SMP(google if you don't know what it is).

Lemme roll off the list that I can think of off the top of my head
Supreme Commander and Forged Alliance(heavy SMP and MT reliant)
Black and White 2 and Battle of the Gods
Unreal Tournament 3
Unreal Tournament 2004
Unreal Tournament 2003
World of Warcrap
Quake 4
Doom 3
Enemy Territory Quake Wars
X3
Conquest Frontier Wars
BioShock

as for applications
Almost ALL encoding of almost every format sound and video, even lame has a MT/SMP version
Adobe everything(things that came from Mac durr)
Almost all 3d rendering programs(major ones)
Compression programs, winrar winzip winace, etc.

The list seriously goes on and on and on to the point where this would become redundant and lame.

This is game came out in 2008 it should AT LEAST be multi-threaded to handle the script functions of the units. Hell they stopped making single core cpu's when dual cores came out for intel after amd released their dual cores in what.. 2004-2005? It's a "get with the program" thing that these game makers need to do, we have quad cores, dual cpu quad core, quad quad core, soon to be octa core with dual cpu's(16cores) etc maybe by the end of this year early 2009, yet some of the game makers are like "Multi thread? what the hell is this?!" Though honestly I guess you could blame who ever they learned from, if it was straight out of college I guess I could say that maybe their lessons were only single core oriented, who really knows. But to say that very few applications use it, well that's just ludicrous.