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feldon34 · 05-20-2002, 01:57 PM

I'm sure the Folding is set to idle.

Anyway, the Aquarium uses 100% of the CPU even at idle. It SHOULD only use the % of CPU necessary to generate the number of frames being displayed.

On my 1400 MHz Athlon system with GeForce 2 MX400, the Aquarium shouldn't need more than 4% of the CPU to generate the ~75 frames per second needed for the video card to render.

I hope some day Will can look into this, maybe in the DirectX 7 version. It really is a problem because I don't want to run my CPU 12 degrees hotter all the time, and eventually my system locks up.

I suppose now is a bad time to mention that the Aquarium brings down my Eudora Pro 5.1 too?

I have to close Eudora to run the Aquarium.

05-20-2002, 01:57 PM	#14
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,947	I'm sure the Folding is set to idle. Anyway, the Aquarium uses 100% of the CPU even at idle. It SHOULD only use the % of CPU necessary to generate the number of frames being displayed. On my 1400 MHz Athlon system with GeForce 2 MX400, the Aquarium shouldn't need more than 4% of the CPU to generate the ~75 frames per second needed for the video card to render. I hope some day Will can look into this, maybe in the DirectX 7 version. It really is a problem because I don't want to run my CPU 12 degrees hotter all the time, and eventually my system locks up. I suppose now is a bad time to mention that the Aquarium brings down my Eudora Pro 5.1 too? I have to close Eudora to run the Aquarium. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman Last edited by feldon34; 05-20-2002 at 02:02 PM.