Frostie
07-03-2007, 11:15 AM
Hello community :)
I have been playing Dangerous Waters since end of 2005 now and stumbled across some technical "issues" which you might be able helping me to resolve.
Normally I am playing the sim in a 1024x768 resultion in fullscreen-mode with most of the details turned on.
But, no matter what I do, the CPU-usage in the windows task manager always shows 100%. Is that considered being normal or is my computer just too aged? There are no major graphical "hickups", but for example the P3-Orion seems to "stutter" a bit across the monitor.
My computer:
AMD 2600+ (from 2003)
1 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9500 128 MB graphics card
Before I start playing, I end all applications, such as anti-virus software and all other running processes which are not needed. It shows 147 MB (out of 1024 MB) used before I start the game and when the game is running, it gets up to 285 MB RAM used. The harddisk is being defragmented on a regular basis and a virus-scan showed no results.
Is DW using up that much of CPU-power by default? What could I do to decrease it or make things run "smoother"?
Another question I have is, how much processing power additional units in the game use up. For example: in a scenario I have put 5 different ships and some buildings (no included in sim, just for optical reasons)
I would be grateful for every help you could provide me.
Many thanks in advance and cheers from Germany,
Frostie
I have been playing Dangerous Waters since end of 2005 now and stumbled across some technical "issues" which you might be able helping me to resolve.
Normally I am playing the sim in a 1024x768 resultion in fullscreen-mode with most of the details turned on.
But, no matter what I do, the CPU-usage in the windows task manager always shows 100%. Is that considered being normal or is my computer just too aged? There are no major graphical "hickups", but for example the P3-Orion seems to "stutter" a bit across the monitor.
My computer:
AMD 2600+ (from 2003)
1 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 9500 128 MB graphics card
Before I start playing, I end all applications, such as anti-virus software and all other running processes which are not needed. It shows 147 MB (out of 1024 MB) used before I start the game and when the game is running, it gets up to 285 MB RAM used. The harddisk is being defragmented on a regular basis and a virus-scan showed no results.
Is DW using up that much of CPU-power by default? What could I do to decrease it or make things run "smoother"?
Another question I have is, how much processing power additional units in the game use up. For example: in a scenario I have put 5 different ships and some buildings (no included in sim, just for optical reasons)
I would be grateful for every help you could provide me.
Many thanks in advance and cheers from Germany,
Frostie