Maxamizing CPU cycles

[littleprince]

OK... I'm on reading week... and as such, its gaming week! i just gamed till 6am last night...
Heres the problem.. while i'm playing games, the dnetc rc5 client does nothing... well, nearly nothing...
so i used taskinfo2000 and set the priority to normal instead of idle. the problem is, taskinfo takes away cpu cycles! if i close it, does the client stay on normal priority? or go back down to idle?? will this help my output?? or else for the next week, my tbird is gonna lose like 10 hours a day!!

 

[Poof]

You can set the priority for the client from within itself, without needed Taskinfo.

If you go through the config menu and choose #3 "Performance related options", and then #3 again "Priority level to run at", you can pick a number from 0-9 to set the priority. The default is "0" which means that it only runs when the CPU is idle. At "9", it takes up all the CPU time (except when "time critical" apps need to run).

You could probably set it to maybe "1" or "2" while gaming and still crack some blocks. If it slows your gaming down, then just adjust that number downward.

 

[ViRGE]

You should just let the game get all the CPU cycles it wants. Between Windows, the client, and other programs, things can get crazy quickly. Besides, blocks are nice, but a good framerate is nicer.

PS If you're really despirate, try leaving v-sync on; it should cap the CPU usage by capping the number of frames drawn

 

[Poof]

LOL ViRGE...Spoken like a true gamer...

Frag on babe!

 

[Cheapster]

I just changed my setting and was wondering about this warning:

*Warning*: Running the Win32 client at any priority level other than zero is
destructive to Operating System safety. Win32's thread scheduler is not nice.
Besides, a zero priority does not mean that the client will run slower than at
a higher priority. It simply means that all other processes have a better
*chance* to get processor time than client. If none of them want/need processor
time, the client will get it. Do *not* change the value of this option unless
you are intimately familiar with the way Win32 thread scheduling works.

I plan on using another computer too for RC5 and I'd like to set it for 9, but according to this it won't speed anything up and could damange. Any takes on this?

 

[Poof]

I currently run multiple projects on my machines alongside RC5 including OGR, SETI, folding@home, and genome@home.

Since these different projects interpret priorities differently, I've found that if I run say SETI w/RC5, RC5 backs back so far in the background at default priority, that it almost disappears! :Q

So in that case, I've found that if I set the RC5 internal priority to around 4 for this system, the 2 share the CPU nicely, about 50/50.

The same goes for the other apps like genome@home and RC5 - ie., those cases when I want them to share more or less equally.

Since these machines are pretty much dedicated crunchers, then I haven't experienced any problems with doing this in windoze. The machine that I use for my day to day surfing, email, etc., activities is Linux and not windoze, so the stability issues with setting priorities, are not a concern.

 

[dennilfloss]

"Besides, blocks are nice, but a good framerate is nicer."

Heresy!!! :Q

I play my SNES more to conserve cpu cycles.

 

[WTT0001]

Let me warn you though, when I set the Priority @ 9 it only got about 10% of the CPU Cycles BUT when I set it to 8 it gets 80 - 90% of the Cycles.

Good luck and God Bless,

WTT0001

 

[littleprince]

AW MAN! Lost like 10 hours yesterday!! I set the priority higher, but same result... RC5 gets like 3% of cpu time while i'm playing starcraft. I understand that for games like unreal and quake i problay wouldn't want rc5 to do much, but this is starcraft man! it runs in p100 fine!! o well, guess theres no getting around this tragic loss...