Allegiance.exe consuming 100% of CPU all the time

Saxy37 · Post by **Saxy37** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:04 pm

Upon starting allegiance (after clicking 'Login' in ASGS) the Allegiance.exe will take up 100% of the CPU, even at the splash screen (before you click on the 'Free Games' button)? Does this happen to everybody?

Thanks,
-Saxy

ImmortalZ · Post by **ImmortalZ** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:25 pm

Yes.

It halts everything else - it even made my machine do a reboot once /blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":o" border="0" alt="blink.gif" /> (Just alleg window comes up - music stops - 2 seconds later, I'm staring at the BIOS screen)

Dogbones · Post by **Dogbones** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:26 pm

Yep and it is likely because of Allegiance's event loop. Orion posted a possible fix (basically a sleep in the correct spot). I have not had time to try it however.

Dogbones · Post by **Dogbones** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:27 pm

ImmortalZ wrote:QUOTE (ImmortalZ @ Jan 15 2008, 03:25 PM) Yes.

It halts everything else - it even made my machine do a reboot once /blink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":o" border="0" alt="blink.gif" /> (Just alleg window comes up - music stops - 2 seconds later, I'm staring at the BIOS screen)

Hmm, I've never had it reboot my machine or lock it up for that matter. In windowed mode (or iconified) I have always been able to interact with other apps without issue.

Saxy37 · Post by **Saxy37** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:40 pm

Ahhh, thanks! I can interact with other apps when allegiance is in windowed mode too, but it takes up whatever CPU is leftover from the other things I'm running. I guess I never noticed this prior to R4 since windowed mode never worked for me, and when allegiance is minimized it doesn't use any CPU.

Thanks!
-Saxy

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 3:36 pm

When Allegiance is minimized it does a long Sleep (for about 30 milliseconds if I remember correctly) per frame, my patch basically put in a 1 ms per frame sleep in the screen rendering (which drops CPU usage from ~95% to ~5% on my CPU), and would not effect how much CPU usage Allegiance uses while you're actually playing a game, only when you're in the server/game lobbies.

Wasp · Post by **Wasp** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 4:57 pm

my cpu only spiked a bit but never got over 70% and that was only for a spike or two. I see no CPU bogging whatsoever.

Kap · Post by **Kap** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:32 pm

I blame your sig, wasp.

Dogbones · Post by **Dogbones** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:37 pm

Technical Wonder wrote:QUOTE (Technical Wonder @ Jan 16 2008, 10:36 AM) When Allegiance is minimized it does a long Sleep (for about 30 milliseconds if I remember correctly) per frame, my patch basically put in a 1 ms per frame sleep in the screen rendering (which drops CPU usage from ~95% to ~5% on my CPU), and would not effect how much CPU usage Allegiance uses while you're actually playing a game, only when you're in the server/game lobbies.

Orion please repost where that change was supposed to go.

Thanks,

Dog

ImmortalZ · Post by **ImmortalZ** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:06 pm

Onion's fix was for the 100% CPU usage in the lobby. This is a different problem I think.

Also, my CPU usage only hits 50%... because Alleg is single threaded and it hogs only one core. But it does grab the whole system for upto 3 seconds on launch, before showing the initial screen.