High CPU usage -- laptop mode?

[cronvel]

Hi,

The game use a lot of CPU. It looks like it use as much as possible. This is critical for laptop with low-end GPU, especially when it is unplugged: it drains the battery really quickly. Mine is drained after 30min of Argentum Age, but it can last up to 3h30min for regular desktop usage. I can't play when traveling for example.

Even when there is no animation at all (e.g. in the menu), it still consumes a lot. It would be nice if we could lower the framerate or turn down some visual effects.

[davewx7]

Hey there,

We are still going to do a pretty big performance pass over Argentum Age to make it more efficient.

If you press f3 while playing it will give you a display showing you the fps and some performance numbers. Can you tell me what numbers you typically see in there?

Also, what are the system specs of your machine?

[cronvel]

During a game, the game reports 60 fps and 50% CPU usage. I don't know how it's computed since the htop command report 100% of a core (hyperthreading) just for the anura process. By the way, system display-related processes eat 30-40% of others cores.

In the menu, the game reports 10% of CPU usage, while htop shows 50% of a core.

My laptop specs:

• CPU:

# lscpu
Architecture:          x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                4
On-line CPU(s) list:   0-3
Thread(s) per core:    2
Core(s) per socket:    2
Socket(s):             1
NUMA node(s):          1
Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel
CPU family:            6
Model:                 42
Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2467M CPU @ 1.60GHz
Stepping:              7
CPU MHz:               841.750
CPU max MHz:           2300.0000
CPU min MHz:           800.0000
BogoMIPS:              3192.82
Virtualization:        VT-x
L1d cache:             32K
L1i cache:             32K
L2 cache:              256K
L3 cache:              3072K
NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0-3

• GPU:

# lshw -C display
  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
       resources: irq:31 memory:f0000000-f03fffff memory:e0000000-efffffff ioport:3000(size=64)