The Powder Toy

Powder toy CPU Usage

  • maisydog     28th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Core i7 720 @ 1.6GZ (mobile quad core)

    13% on empty sim (59 fps)
    13% on sim full of gas and bomb (6 fps)

    i don't understand why powder toy only uses 13% cpu usage even when it is doing explosions and things


  • theKJM     28th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    mine says 50% on a duel core

    50% empty (59 fps)
    60% 55000 particals(bomb and glass) (11fps)
  • massey101     29th Jan 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @maisydog
    I am not sure, but I am assuming that your i7 uses HyperThreading Technology. This means that each of your 4 cores is split into two threads, which act as virtual cores. This mean that you have 8 threads. Now Powder Toy will take up the entire thread, no matter what is in the window. Therefore 100% / 8 = 12.5 or 13%.
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