Seti & rc5 are lagging my gaming.

[Toro 45]

I noticed some lag when playing Tribes online,contributed it to my dial up that day. I shut down the internet & played tribes off line & noticed the same lag.
When I shut off rc5 it went away, seti does the same thing. I thought rc5 kinda pulled back when other resources are required like it does when Seti is trying to run at the same time.

So do Celerons just suck for these programs or what?I have seti as my screensaver only & rc5 to run while on the comp. It does the exact same thing on my sons comp which is specd simiarly.
Are you guys running seti or rc5 while your gaming without the same affect or do you have to it pause before you go into the game? We both play a lot of Tribes & keep forgetting to turn it off & on when entering & leaving the game.

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Thanks Toro:Q

 

[BurntKooshie]

i game with RC5 running. I can't tell a difference....maybe that's just me though?

 

[mechBgon]

I run RC5 (or OGR) practically all the time, and have occasionally done some SETI too. RC5 doesn't seem to lag my gaming on any of the systems I've tried it on. What's really interesting is to run a benchmark like SiSoft Sandra's memory benchmark with the Distributed.net client running... it gives me the same results as without, or so close as no matter (sometimes lower, sometimes higher!). I also did some quick framerate testing last night with UT, with SETI running. To my surprise, it didn't seem to be affecting the game noticably, even though a command-line SETI client is supposedly not the kindest program when it comes to sharing CPU time.

What you might want to do is to set the Dnet client up to pause itself when it sees Tribes.exe running (if that's the name of the Tribes executable). To do that, you'd double-click on your cow on the Taskbar to bring the client up into a window, then right-click in the window and chose "Configure" from the menu, then chose

1) General Client Options, then
7) "Pause if running" ==>, then enter Tribes.exe and any other games or apps you'd like.

This also might be a good idea to get maximum efficiency out of both the Dnet and SETI clients, meaning that you could have Dnet pause whenever it senses SETI running, so the memory-bandwidth-hungry SETI client can run without interference. I am told that Dnet doesn't get much done with SETI running anyway, I believe someone said the keyrate drops by about 90%. Hope this info helps! : )

 

[Robor]

I have no problems with SETI playing games but my friend, rleach2, plays a golf game (dont' remember which one) that has problems with the SETI client running. He said it makes his swing meter jerky.

Rob

 

[Toro 45]

Jerky is a good description for what it does to my game as well.It's very noticible when your skiing or disc jumping. What Cpu's are you 3 running ,just wondering if it's a Celeron thing.
Mechbegon ,thanks for the tip I'll give it a try.
Thanks, Toro

 

[Hellburner]

Do you have DMA access enabled for hard disk access? If not you can take a serious hit any time there is disk access.

 

[BurntKooshie]

i'm running on a cyrix @ 233mhz, so its jerky anyway But seriously, i've checked frame rates - they are the same with as without it running.

 

[Toro 45]

I did'nt have a Tribes.exe, so I tried "Tribes" & I got the bsod when I played the game.If I knew for sure what the name for the Tribes excutable was I could try that.
Yes I do have DMA enabled on my hard disk.I checked the proirity level on rc5 & it's still set to zero. Any more ideas?
Toro

 

[BurntKooshie]

to find out the name of the executable, go to the start menu, go to the icon that you click on that starts up tribes, right click on that. You'll see "target" and the path for the executable. Whatever the .exe is, that's the file.

 

[Ken g6]

Try another tack with Another Task Manager. It should show the real name of the Tribes executable, when Tribes is running.

BTW, you're not running the V2.70 SETI Beta, are you? I've noticed it (eventually) makes everything jerky on my computer.

 

[imported_Thunder]

Toro45,

Don't worry, you're not alone in realizing that there are a few games that just don't agree with the RC5 client. My guess is that the game developers just have certain threads within the game that are such low priority that they actually "duke it out" with dnetc.exe for CPU time. It's a problem that I've only experienced on a handful of games (for example on Need For Speed III, the game runs fine, but all keyboard commands are barely functional and take several seconds to work with the client running) and I've never personally had it affect the operation of any business class software.

Like the other guys have said, you're just going to have to find the executable name and insert it in the client setup where they've pointed it out to you. Otherwise you're going to have to be very disciplined and remember to shut down the client (or pause it) and reopen (or resume it) every time you play this particular game. I wouldn't recommend this though, as you're inevitably going to either forget to shut it down or even worse, restart it sometimes.

-Brian

p.s. I've still never tried tribes, so I can't help ya on the exe name.

 

[Sukhoi]

If you have SETI only set to run as the screensaver, I'd be very surprised if it lagged a game, since SETI isn't doing anything at the time.

 

[NakaNaka]

SETI has lagged me but Rc5 never ...

 

[Toro 45]

I do run Seti As screensaver,but for testing the lag I ran it always on & it caused the same choppy screen as Rc5.

I found the Executable, thanks Burntkooshie it does pause now when I enter Tribes & it pretty well cleared up the lag.
Toro

 

[WetSprocket]

I have noticed a few frames drop when running Battlezone and RC5. I just pause while playing. Haven't noticed on any other games though.

 

[Viztech]

Hey that's great that you got that 'pause if running' working for you Toro! And I might add that using the Seti screen saver mode (remember to use the blank screen) is a great way to get the most of your computer running both projects at once.

Happy Gaming (and cracking)

viz

 

[ReDSkuLL]

I'd notice that with my celeron Quake3 would run nice with Prime95 running, but when I went dual it wouldn't run nice without pausing Prime95. Then when I got the Athlon700-classic, it did the same thing, but it never did this with seti or RC5. It may just depend on the game or certain config.

 

[Ken g6]

I've recently noticed that when SETI is running, when I try to transfer files from an emulated HP48 calculator to the real thing, the emulated Kermit protocol drops packets. But, then, I run SETI at a higher than normal priority (normal instead of idle).

 

[Sukhoi]

<< But, then, I run SETI at a higher than normal priority (normal instead of idle). >>



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