playing games..

[SHAWN]

sorry if this is in the wrong forum.

Is it normal for my cpu usage to be 100% while playing a game?

 

[Person]

I would say so. The way most new games do frame managament (time-based), it uses all resources available.

 

[bigbmxdave]

It all depends on your system specs and what game you are actually playing and on what settings, but with the specs stated I would think only the new games like Doom3, Halo2 and HL2 etc. would require a constant 100% cpu usage.

 

[bigbmxdave]

Another thing I would suggest is checking your CPU temperature, if its running 100% and stays cool then theres no problem, but recently I tested mine and found it went to about 85 degrees when playing CS, which is well above the recommended safety levels.

 

[Trifid]

^^^^ is that overclocked temperature??


I thought that it would use 100% as it will try and get the most fps possible. If it isnt, than there is probally something bottlenecking the performance, or it has a limited frame rate.

 

[SHAWN]

why do i get like 80fps on quakeIII and 10 on command and conquer? Is my videocard the bottleneck?

i tried oc-ing my video card and when i play a game, it resets itself. It ran stable at 250mhz and 200mhz memory. when i turned the game on, then checked the frequencies, they were back to default.