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Yannickbl
 
PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 8:40 AM 

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When running nwn on my laptop, it's laggy, and the problem is that whatever processor I make it use, it uses the entire capacity. I have a Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T6600 (2.2Ghz), I'm aware that I can edit the nwn.ini and make it use either processor, but as said, both use their full 100% when I make nwn use it.

Any solutions to this?

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PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 8:49 AM 

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I have been trying to assign servers/toolset/nwmain to different cores and in the end only one thing worked:

http://robpol86.com/pages/imagecfg.php

For me (Phenom 9500) the numbers are different. I needed to use the -u option first, btw.

My setup (mind that this is my modding machine, not the server)

0x1 = core 1 Firefox, MSN (MSN really messes up NWN with alt-tab)
0x3 = core 2 nwtoolset.exe
0x5 = core 3 nwserver.exe
0x7 = core 4 nwmain.exe

I had to turn off all CPU affinity options in the NWN/NWNX ini files.

Machine runs a lot smoother when modding/testing with all three programs running, so this trick is not just handy for servers.

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Yannickbl
 
PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 8:58 AM 

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe

The spaces seem to fuck it up, how do I get it to use that path? :P

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PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 9:15 AM 

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Yannickbl wrote:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe

The spaces seem to (censored) it up, how do I get it to use that path? :P


Got that to work with "...", I thought it wasn't working because I got error messages, but that was simply because msn was still on, silly me xD

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Yannickbl
 
PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 9:27 AM 

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It doesn't seem to matter however, because the processor nwn uses is always at 100%, I've made sure FF & msn use my first processor, nwn uses my second, still it uses up the 100% =/

I don't get it really, nwn used to run fine on a 2.2ghz Single core processor :(

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PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 9:40 AM 

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It probably uses the full core as your effectively running a 2.2ghz processor when playing the game. Similar to myself. Generally you can overclock these however, like I run mine at 2.3ghz.

Its the unfortunate downside of gaming with multi core technology, and why it can sometimes be worth jumping down a few cores for that extra oomph per core. If I had bought my core instead of recieving it as a gift I would have jumped down to an intel duel core 3.0 instead of a quad 2.2.

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PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 10:09 AM 

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O, I thought it was using two cores.

NWN almost always goes to 100% for one core, and it isn't the only program I know of that does that. It will be happy with less as well, but simply grab as much as it can have.

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Yannickbl
 
PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 10:16 AM 

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Is the lag I'm experiencing not due to the 100% of one core if that's what it usually does?

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PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 11:02 AM 

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I doubt it. Try another server and see what happens?

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PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 11:10 AM 

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I get it on any server it seems, it's not the kind of lag that freezes the game for a few seconds, just the game not running as smooth as it should, and occasionally freezing very shortly (Talking milliseconds).

It's only a minor inconvenience tho'.

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PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 11:17 AM 

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Defrag your drive, fiddle with your settings ingame, make sure your system drive has enough space, etc?

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PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 11:19 AM 

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Drive has 100 gigs left, the game runs exactly the same on minimal settings as on best, I'll try the defrag.

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PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 12:55 PM 

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Not CPU, its your Video card. What do you have? Sounds like the old "Wah? What's backwards compatabilty?" thing ATI and Nvidia seem to be into with their drivers these days.

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PostPosted: Mon, May 31 2010, 13:15 PM 

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ATI HD4650

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PostPosted: Tue, Jun 01 2010, 4:35 AM 

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That will probably do it. I've found any of the HD series is gonna have some major slowdown with NWN. You might want to see how far back your drivers can go, and then try dropping back as far as possible.

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PostPosted: Tue, Jun 01 2010, 6:27 AM 

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I took the oldest Win Vista (x64) driver I could find (I have win 7), I tried a win xp one, but that didn't want to install, it seems to be better now, not completely gone, but way less frequent lag. Thanks :)

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PostPosted: Wed, Jun 02 2010, 4:18 AM 

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I had this problem too, although you seem to have figured something out, for me I found running this program before NWN and setting nwnmain.exe to only use Core 0 fixed the lagginess completely. Make sure to pick show all user processes if nwnmain.exe doesn't show up if you decide to try it.

http://www.bitsum.com/prolasso.php

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