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Mihai Corvin

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The CPU usage for this game is ridiculous, the most I have ever seen. My CPU is constantly at somewhere between 50-60% usage, my CPU is kind-of dated but still powerful, I have an AMD Phenom II X6 3.2GHz.
I'am aware that this game has a lot of things to manage and calculate but is this a performance issue that is yet to be fixed? Do other people experience the same issue.
In addition every now and then the game will just lag a little and I have had 2 crashes from the game freezing.
 

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So, game is using your CPU, what's a problem, lol ?

Well CPU temp is usually at around 55°C while playing as it is currently winter where I am my room temp is about 12-15°C I hate to think what the CPU temp will be come summer.
Also as I mentioned the lag and freezing probably has something to do with the high CPU usage as well.
 

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My CPU usage doesn't go over 30% and that's with playing a h.264 movie on my second monitor, plus a few other applications running. However, I have an i7 (8x) 3.4Ghz processor and 12GB RAM.

It's to be expected that CPU usage would be quite a bit higher in a game such as CiM2 because of the tracking of so many agents that need to be tracked, and to think that some people were complaining about the low 'viewable' / 'trackable' population count.
 

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with the amd fx 6100 6x 3.3ghz on a busy map without underground view i use around 20% with underground view its around 14% just thought i'd mention that :)
 

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I think, it's mainly AMD CPUs problem. they are different from Intel CPU's. AMD instructions takes longer, that's why they offer higher frequencies. Perhaps, that's a reason, why you have higher utilization. Intel CPU's has Hyperthreading and instructions takes shorter time .. so, you have lower utilization.
 

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I have the same CPU. No problem here!
If you're worried about temperatures.. Buy a better cooling on it. That's what i have done.

Oh, and the Intel/AMD rant:
I have both an Intel I7 and an AMD X6(Laptop/PC) And the game runs better on my PC(AMD) than on my laptop(Intel) even though my laptop is newer than the pc.
So really.. i don't think it matters what kind of CPU you use ;)
 

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I have got the Phenom II X4 964 Black Edition 3.4GHz / 8GB memory and I have no issue whatsoever. My PC is not getting hot and the CPU usage is quite low, I can play other games (i.e. Minecraft; as Java uses quite a lot of CPU and memory) whilst CiM2 is running. I have no special cooling (just 2 140cm case fans, 1 arctic cooling CPU fan, 1 120cm case fan at the front of the case) and my PC is blowing out cool air.

I doubt your problem is a CiM2 issue.