Birth of the Federation

Today I played a little bit on the latest Patch. After finishing I checked the AI...apparently it started terraforming now some of the planets.

But something more generic struck me today.

What exactly is eating up ~50% of the CPU-single Thread power of my system when "sitting" around idle on the galaxy map ?!?.

I mean...really >50% of my CPU Power goes for "drawing" the screen or what ?

This load btw disappears as soon as one enters a systems build menu.

Perhaps this "explains" the (albeit already much better) GUI issues ? I mean scrolling with full galaxy view enabled (F12) is really really slow...but even with just my ~30% discovered area its really drastic ?

Can you elaborate on that a little bit - it seems strange that there is such a constant CPU drain all the time when on the galaxy map. I mean I would understand if the CPU requirements would "Jump" when trying to scroll or doing anything...but just sitting there and watching the map raises my CPU temperature constantly by ~15 °C (thats how I found this. The Temp goes from below 50 °C to 65 °C when my Vent kicks in to keep it down).

This made me check the CPU usage stats during this period and its obvious. CPU load is ~10-12% on my Ryzen 6 Core with SMT enabled...which means its more then 50% of a single core/thread utilized permanently all the time, even idling not doing anything.

While in the system Menu CPU load drops to ~5%....and temps fall to 50 °C again.

OK - I`ll try to optimize and readjust my CPU cooling curve a little bit to avoid the upspinning of the cooler, but would be nice if you could give some feedback where this constant CPU drain comes from.

For your reference. My problems occur on a Win 10 Ryzen 3600 (6C12T) System with 32 GB RAM.

Turn switching times is ultra fast even now (barely 5s).

Yes all sector borders are "ondulating" (theres a tiny color shift running from top to bottom or so). I think I did not notice this when running in Win 7 summer last year.

But still CPU usage when "nothing" is happening, no clicking etc... ?!? Why ?

For full context, I ran this test on a Win7 desktop with 8GB RAM.
Re CPU, I get similar numbers and behavior. Like mentioned previously, I get no GUI issues with Win7 - so there might not be a correlation here. Notice I'm only trying to separate the issues, as the GUI is clearly an OS issue, CPU is not.
You mentioned the "ondulation" effect in sector borders (which I had even forgotten was there). Will check that.


The ondulating borders effect is intended, and has always been there. You just forget about it at some point.
Maybe I could tie it to the twinkling stars setting.

I also checked the CPU usage (idle, Galaxy map)
I had about 6-7% at my desktop (Win 10 1909, Intel Core i7 8700 6 cores/12 threads, 32GB) but also about 5% of graphic processor use
At my 10 years old laptop I had about 43% of CPU use (Win 10 1909, Intel Core i5 M430, 2 cores/4 threads, 8GB memory)

Hi,
I had not too much time for Supremacy recently, but I had a look for CPU usage in Feb02.
My PC was using about 15% CPU power in idle / glaxy map, but after couple of minutes it droped to about 5%. My old latop was using about 38-40%, so slightly less as I remember.

geordie wrote: ↑Wed Feb 05, 2020 12:49 pm Hi,
I had not too much time for Supremacy recently, but I had a look for CPU usage in Feb02.
My PC was using about 15% CPU power in idle / glaxy map, but after couple of minutes it droped to about 5%. My old latop was using about 38-40%, so slightly less as I remember.

So it is better?
Did you notice any changes in the UI? In the negative sense, I mean.
I decreased the "refresh rate" of the galaxy screen - at least I think that was it, hence my need for feedback.




geordie:
It is slightly better, but as I wrote earlier my games this year are quite OK. I have not noticed any delays or performance problems.

geordie wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2020 9:35 am I also checked the CPU usage (idle, Galaxy map)
I had about 6-7% at my desktop (Win 10 1909, Intel Core i7 8700 6 cores/12 threads, 32GB) but also about 5% of graphic processor use
At my 10 years old laptop I had about 43% of CPU use (Win 10 1909, Intel Core i5 M430, 2 cores/4 threads, 8GB memory)

geordie wrote: ↑Sat Jan 18, 2020 9:35 am My PC was using about 15% CPU power in idle / glaxy map, but after couple of minutes it droped to about 5%. My old latop was using about 38-40%, so slightly less as I remember.

Yep, in your system the improvement was smallish.

@Iscaran, when you get back, could you check this too please? Thanks.

OK.

CPU Usage got better now...just around 6-7% in "idle" sitting on galaxy map.
GPU usage between 0-80% (for a second).
There is still "some" lagging in game - but got much better.
It seems that the User interface Aliasing setting impacts this a little.

The other two seemd to have no impact. At least on my rig.

I wonder whether it might have to do with Ryzen CPU being built of 2 Core complexes...

System:
CPU: Ryzen 3600X
GPU: Radeon R9 380 (still on Radeon driver 19.9.2, as 19.12.1 caused Major problems (couldnt run Supremacy).
Did not try newer drivers than that since then.
RAM: 16 GB
Win 10 Pro 64bit 1903.18362.592

From 50% to 7%, cool!
Thanks for all the info!

Hi Iceman,
I have downloaded Feb14. So far I can only say that my last save seems working. Anyway I have saved again under new version.
I have checked the CPU load - about 15-16% in idle mode (Galaxy map) + about 12% GPU usage.

geordie wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2020 6:32 pm Hi Iceman,
I have downloaded Feb14. So far I can only say that my last save seems working. Anyway I have saved again under new version.
I have checked the CPU load - about 15-16% in idle mode (Galaxy map) + about 12% GPU usage.

IIRC I cleaned up some bonuses before releasing feb14, so there might be some weird bonuses in some buildings, like what happened some time ago.

I was waiting for feedback on CPU load, ended up releasing with the original refresh rate. Might change it back to one of the patches, if it makes enough of a difference.