CPU Usage

[Allora]

<p>Can anyone tell me how much CPU eq2 should be using? Currently my cpu usage is at 100% when I'm playing and eq2 is using about 95%.</p><p>I'm having a lot of problems with game randomly going to black screen and then crashing to desktop or occasionally freezing up the whole computer. If I stay logged in for 30 mins without crashing then I'm doing well. This has only been happening the last few weks and I'm wondering if the cpu usage is the problem.</p><p> My machine is an Athlon 3000 with 1.5gig of ram and Windows XP. Sound card is a creative sound blaster and video card is a Radeon 9600 with a 2004 driver. I tried updating to the catalyst 5.2 driver (2005) and that only made the problem worse. I've been playing on this system for 2 years and haven't changed anything on it.</p>

[Tebos]

<cite>Allora wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>Can anyone tell me how much CPU eq2 should be using? Currently my cpu usage is at 100% when I'm playing and eq2 is using about 95%.</p><p>I'm having a lot of problems with game randomly going to black screen and then crashing to desktop or occasionally freezing up the whole computer. If I stay logged in for 30 mins without crashing then I'm doing well. This has only been happening the last few weks and I'm wondering if the cpu usage is the problem.</p><p> My machine is an Athlon 3000 with 1.5gig of ram and Windows XP. Sound card is a creative sound blaster and video card is a Radeon 9600 with a 2004 driver. I tried updating to the catalyst 5.2 driver (2005) and that only made the problem worse. I've been playing on this system for 2 years and haven't changed anything on it.</p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #ff3366;">Try the 5.2 classic driver and make sure the in-game screen resolution matches the desktop resolution.  That is normal cpu usuage for a single core cpu while playing this game.</span></p>