JackGriffin wrote:Dr.Flay wrote:
To everone else, I want actual FACTS not OPINIONS. Opinions are not really as useful.
That's probably good because I'm sure you wouldn't want my
opinion on your condescending attitude. I'll remember to remind you of that when you ask next for someone's opinion on something.
Fair enough Jack, I wasn't trying to be a smart-ass, but as I was actually asking for current (right-now) factual reference, based on looking under the bonnet (now), rather than an opinion on whether people feel Ued is performing as it should (I also thought it was, but I was wrong).
The use of CAPS was not an attempt to shout at anyone, but EMPHASISE the importance of the difference in the two.
(I am aware that being autistic makes me come across as very "blunt". I apologise for that)
You are correct in that there would be threads on this if it were common, but the average gamer does not use Windows replacement tools, so never knows or looks, so how would they ask if they never noticed?
I know enough to see a potential problem, and a work-around, and post it.
Anyway, did you look? and what is the result? You have not said.
As I said all feedback
including opposite to my experience is valid.
The more actual verifiable info the better.
*EDIT*
Grumbling, removed for PM
And thankyou Ferali
*EDIT*
And also thankyou Papercoffee for being Dad, and giving us a slap.
I have been testing Ued on every intel PC I can (I put the standalone 2.1 version on a USB stick).
Interesting results so far, with the least CPU use and context switching, on the cheapest/crappest laptop !
Very mixed results, but all much better than my old faithful
so no my PC with XP is not ideal for Ued 2
But
all so far are hammering the cycles for no good reason that I can see (whereas Ued 3 always sits happily at 0.01%) with 20% being the highest.
NOTE
If this is an issue with the sound layer, rather than Ued, then the sound system
may be actually robbing valuable CPU cycles, un-noticed from the main engine during gameplay (All CPU cycles, no matter how few are a precious thing, and not to be wasted).
Not much can be done about that, but I think it is still useful to know.
I will try some tests, rendering video to "null" and see if UT itself is being slowed on my PC.
The biggest recent impact on performance I have is using an ATI card on an nVidia bus (I think they no like each-other), UT, and 2K4 are both slower than they were with a less powerful nVidia card !
So maybe that's the issue even.
I am more than aware of the random nature of different hardware mixes (Toms Hardware is my bible).
Creavion you cheeky monkey, UT came out at a time of Pentium 2, and if you were lucky or rich, you could afford one of the new breed of motherboards that went above 500 MHz
