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SoF : 100% cpu usage

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Retro-pc-user-1

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I played Soldier of Fortune (2000) and while gpu usage is 20%, i have 100% CPU usage.
this game should run on a pentium II, and is using my cpu at 100%.

(NO background programs and most games are at low cpu usage)
have you played it? is it the same?
 
Not seeing this with the specs below. In fact it's impossible because 100% CPU load means all cores loaded, and there's no way a 23 year old game would do that.
 
You're really not going to post anything about what system/specs you're playing the game on?
 
BFG10K said:
Not seeing this with the specs below. In fact it's impossible because 100% CPU load means all cores loaded, and there's no way a 23 year old game would do that.
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Sulaco said:
You're really not going to post anything about what system/specs you're playing the game on?
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true, I have to write the config in the signature! - Core 2 duo 2300 and 2800 MHz (tested with 2 different dual core cpu) - FX 5950 Ultra
Zeze said:
I have so many questions.

How did you join this aging forum and community?
Why aren't you posting the Qs on reddit or else where?

Anyways, welcome.

Please post spec.
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Thank you!
I joined because I like all pc hardware.
Especially gpus these days.
I like to compare different gpu plugged into identical computers🙂
why, what are the forums that are fashionable among "the young"? 🙂 🙂
 
hahaha.... well as a true old timer on this site, I say welcome to new members (and I still miss the fact that many of our stats for the real old timers were lost in the great database purge of '99)....
 
Wow...I was digging through one of my old boxes of misc. computer stuff the other day and saw the disks for this game and SoF II-Double Helix. I doubt they'd even run on Windows 10...and I can't imagine how bad the graphics would look on a 2560x1440 monitor.
 
Basically- bad old coding practices. Probably some "busy wait" code that just sits in a loop and goes "is it time to update the next frame yet? If not, check again". If they inserted a sleep command in there, then it would fix the issue.
 
BoomerD said:
Wow...I was digging through one of my old boxes of misc. computer stuff the other day and saw the disks for this game and SoF II-Double Helix. I doubt they'd even run on Windows 10...and I can't imagine how bad the graphics would look on a 2560x1440 monitor.
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They look fine to me (system specs in sig), aside from the second game's screenshots being dark.

SOF1.jpg


SOF2.jpg
 
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BoomerD said:
Wow...I was digging through one of my old boxes of misc. computer stuff the other day and saw the disks for this game and SoF II-Double Helix. I doubt they'd even run on Windows 10...and I can't imagine how bad the graphics would look on a 2560x1440 monitor.
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SOF2 was so good. the game itself, and the multiplayer was fun as shit.
 
Is it possible this is an example of an old game running at some insane frame rate like 800fps and that’s what’s using so much computing power. Weren’t games of that era mostly dependent on the CPU?
OP for laughs limit your frame rate in your graphics card (assuming you have a driver package that allows it) to something like 60 frames per second.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
Is it possible this is an example of an old game running at some insane frame rate like 800fps and that’s what’s using so much computing power. Weren’t games of that era mostly dependent on the CPU?
OP for laughs limit your frame rate in your graphics card (assuming you have a driver package that allows it) to something like 60 frames per second.
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OTOH plenty of games break when you game the framerate high enough. you could do some fun stuff with that 😀
 
Fanatical Meat said:
Is it possible this is an example of an old game running at some insane frame rate like 800fps and that’s what’s using so much computing power. Weren’t games of that era mostly dependent on the CPU?
OP for laughs limit your frame rate in your graphics card (assuming you have a driver package that allows it) to something like 60 frames per second.
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I was going to blame this. Try imposing an FPS cap from an external source and see if that fixes it.
 
BoomerD said:
Wow...I was digging through one of my old boxes of misc. computer stuff the other day and saw the disks for this game and SoF II-Double Helix. I doubt they'd even run on Windows 10...and I can't imagine how bad the graphics would look on a 2560x1440 monitor.
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Why do you say that? A high percentange of older games work on modern hardware/windows. I should know as I have hundreds of 20+ year old games installed on my 24TB NVME RAID array for game installs.

Some take manual tweaking. Most of the time if you buy off GOG the tweaks are built into their installer.
 
Fired it up since it has been a while. Even threw on ReShade using my default profile.

Edit: Using SoF Plus at 3840x2160.

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TheELF said:
Damn...so 82% on one core at 5.6Ghz and another one at 26% just for 60 FPS.
No wonder a dual core would run at 100% all the time.
Or is this due to re-shade?!
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It's mostly SoF. Not sure how much ReShade is using, but it's usually very minimal.
 
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