CPU @ 50% Usage

[RaXoR]

I have an Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 3.16GHz and was installing a game today. I expected it to be extracting files faster than it was so I did a Ctrl+Alt+Delete in XP Home to see what the CPU usage was. It was hovering around 50%. Is this normal or should it have been at 100%?

 

[patonb]

What game?

Alot of older games haven't got dual support.

 

[Asylum]

When installing it shouldnt matter what game or does it support dual core...Only thing that should limit you would be the read speed of the drive its loading from or the write speed of your hard drive!!

 

[SparkMonkeyHellion]

What process was taking 50%?

 

[veedubfreak]

Most new processors are going to outperform the read of the disk. Storage is the bottleneck of most pcs these days.

 

[patonb]

I read this as the install program is only running at 50%, so 1 core, not 100% as he expected from his dual.

I'm thinking, old game, older install program which isn't dual core setup.

Or just the install isn't dual core optimized.

 

[SparkMonkeyHellion]

okay, I was under the impression that he didn't even expect it to take 50% - the only time I'd expect to see a processor pegged (even if it's just one core) is when you're doing load intensive things like processing video or compressing/unpacking large archives like with WinRAR.

 

[RaXoR]

The game is Runes of Magic. Free, and not well-developed.

 

[NightSurge]

Browser based or no? Also, when you looked in the system monitor, what process was using up all the CPU?

 

[thirdshiftdj]

I'm going to have to say that its pretty normal that an install doesn't use 100% of your cpu. There are many other things your cpu could/is doing during that install.