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Old 05-19-2010, 05:00 AM   #25
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Originally posted by feldon34:
If this number is going over 65, you could step up the Sleep value every few seconds until that number is no longer being surpassed.  

Combined with an initial value of 10, this sounds like a good way to go so long as you don't try to decrease the sleep value in order to achieve 60fps. With two different video cards (1 NVidia and 1 ATI) on this older, single core processor system, driving 3 monitors with MA3 spread across all 3, I never get a frame rate of over 39fps. Any sleep setting from -1 to ~20 results in the same 39fps on all three screens. Higher sleep settings (up to 30) result in frame rates that drop down as low as 33fps.

This system runs the CPU at 100% while sleep is set <20 and ~50% with sleep set to 30. Needless to say, I just leave it at 30 to keep the CPU from running flat out for extended periods.
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