The Powder Toy

Powder toy CPU Usage

  • Racer-Delux     28th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    I am conducting a pole on how much of the CPU pt uses. Please reply with the following format:

    [Processor Type]
    [CPU usage on empty sim]
    [CPU usage on full sim w/ any lag generating element]
    [The timeframe in which the highest percentage is observed]
    [Add any other device on your computer that handles any part of pt]

    This is to get a better idea on how much CPU pt sucks up.
  • Catelite     28th Jan 2011 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    ....

    I can tell you this pretty easily.

    100%.

    100%.

    100%.

    TPT uses as much CPU as it can, unless you somehow make more than 60 FPS. Even then I doubt it goes below 100% CPU usage.

    This is exception if you have more than one core, in which case it uses 50% or 25% and so on, but even that is still 100% of that single core's usage.
  • Candunc     28th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    I have 1 core and it runs at 23 %. At 45 FPS.
  • Made2Shred     28th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    3.4ghz Pentium D
    60fps

    empty sim: around 40%

    full sim: 50%

    most of the electronic sims only around 42%

    (this is with a few other programs running.)

    programs: 30%
  • Catelite     28th Jan 2011 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    ...So in other words you have more than one core. :P
  • Made2Shred     28th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    yeah :P
  • HeyJD     28th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @Catelite
    You are absolutely correct. powder-sse1 runs at exactly 50 cpu usage on my dual core.
  • devast8a     28th Jan 2011 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    @Catelite
    Pretty much what she said.
    It will eat as much as it possibly can from the core it's running on.
  • RedFlash     28th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    AMD Athlon II X4 630 Processor 2.8GHz (noobs: It's a quadcore 2.8GHz... Powerful)
    28% On Empty Sim with Firefox running
    33% generating a medium sized ball of dust
    10sec to observe the maximum percentage
    50C on an NVidia GTS 250 Graphics Card (It runs at around 48C normally)
  • zerox22x     28th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Intel I5-430m @ 2.6 Ghz

    empty sim: 22-25% forced to run on 1 core (stays at the same usage at multiple cores)

    25% killer amount of bombs against a metal plate

    5 seconds

    GPU utilization 2% on a ATI Radeon mobility HD 5145 1 gb

    50C (usual for this one)

    Doesnt seem to able to make full advantage of multi core systems , and also doesnt seem to let my graphics card to enter 3d mode

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