Anticipating CPU lag for 1.1 -- too many strikecraft?

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I was just thinking about how, in 1.1, building strikecraft carriers will be more worthwhile and then it occurred to me -- what if each carrier can carry 2 or 3 strikecraft? If a carrier costs about 6 supply points and people start spamming them out, that means that for every 6 supply points, instead of having just one LRM, you end up with 3 or 4 units that CPUs have to keep track of.

I can't speak for other people, but I play on a Socket 939 Athlon 4400 overclocked to 2.4 Ghz and I set Sins to run on a single core and move all of my other programs to the other core, and when two 1500+ supply point fleets meet, my CPU maxxes out and the game lags.

So, is it possible that one of the side effects of 1.1 might be increased CPU-lag at lower supply point fleet sizes? Are there any settings (Effects menu?) that could be tweaked to reduce the load on CPUs?







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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
That core setup dosn't sound very efficent...
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
It's possible. Though going heavy strikecraft doesn't seem to affect my system much. Of course, it lags either way...
Multiplicity - Control multiple PCs using one keyboard and mouse
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Aractain--you think I just let all programs including Sins have affinity for both cores? Sins is single-core only more or less, or at least one large main thread and then a small secondary thread as I understand it.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Carriers have 2-3 squadrons, with an appropriate scaling in cost as well as fleet point cost. There was a dev post about it. I'll find the link, if you want.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
hey could you tell me how you set sins and to run on one core and everything else on another? ive got a dual core 2.4 ghz each
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
hey could you tell me how you set sins and to run on one core and everything else on another? ive got a dual core 2.4 ghz each
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Task Manager - Processes - Right click - Set Affinity...

Be careful with these things, if you start messing with random stuff without knowing what it'll do, you could crash the computer.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
So basically you've denied half of your processor resources to the game and are wondering why it is running slow. HMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
So basically you've denied half of your processor resources to the game and are wondering why it is running slow. HMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..............
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Sins really only uses one core anyways. You could have a quad core and it's still not going to run faster. Better to have the one core dedicated only to the game.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Jep. I normally assign Core #1 (core 2) to Sins and assign everything else--Firefox, Soma FM on Windows Media Player, IRC, etc. to Core #0.