Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> So, that leaves UT3Ed, which was nearly unusable.  So, I took a break 
>> from it to give Handbrake a chance to finish encoding, and played some 
>> flash games on the web (which I found were almost as CPU intensive as 
>> UT3!)
> 
> I'm still in the look for a good game to play while waiting for renders. 
> Playing a CPu-hog game while waiting for a render to finish is 
> counter-productive. My biggest problem isn't intensive games... but 
> games that always use 100%. Doesn't matter how fast your CPU is, always 
> 100%. It's clear they have some busy loop (polling instead of blocking 
> for events, for example).
> 
> Bejeweled 2 is great but eats 100% CPU (well, only one core). I can't 
> figure out why... If I use it in windowed mode, I notice it doesn't use 
> CPU while the window is unfocused. However, mouse hover effects still 
> work while window is unfocused, and CPU usage isn't very significant, so 
> it's not the graphics. Busy loop on the sound handling?

Did you try enforcing VSync in the video driver?  If its rendering at, 
say, 200 fps, this should limit it to ~33% CPU usage.

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...Ben Chambers
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