rec.autos.simulators

> > What does it mean if my processor occupancy is over 100%?

> > Julian

> >If your settings for frame-rate are ex. 20, and your occupancy is over
> >100%, it means that the game cant reach the 20 frames.
> >However, its does NOT slow the game down.
> >It is simply another way of telling the framerate.
> >Im not sure if the occupancy is linear, if it is, it would mean that 20
> >frames, occupancy 200%, gives you a framerate of 10.
> >Normally you would want a occupancy around 100, because that means that
> >your computer is 100% booked...

> >LB

> Is that statement above true? I thought the game ran at the framerate you specified
> no matter what the occupancy was. I thought the occupancy was just a way to tell
> you that your computer wasnt able to calculate everything and thereby running the
> game a bit slower (not true time), but at the same framerate and graphics.

> Could anyone shed some light on this..

>> The framerate will always be the one you specified in the options, no
>> matter what. If the Processor Occupancy shows 200 and you have a
>> framerate of 20, it means that it can omly compute 10 frame per second
>> but will keep on showing 20, therefore 1 second of racing will be spread
>> across 2 seconds of your time.
>> JFD
>I must disagree....
>If the occupancy is above 100%, the computer needs more time than it
>has, to complete the picture. Because of that, the framerate will drop.
>As I see it, Crammond designed the game, so that you will get a certain
>amount of frames (your setting) for every second of real-time. it is
>correct when you say, that 1 sec. turn into 2 sec. of the players time,
>but the framerate will be only 10, and not 20.....
>If the computer only can compute 10 frames, there is no way, it can show
>20 ;-)
>LB