Thread: Graal is a cpu hog?
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Old 07-25-2008, 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by excaliber7388 View Post
Is it me, or does Graal for the Mac use up a lot of the cpu, can cause a good amount of heat? I don't have a temperature sensor on my new cpu, but the hdd and gfx card have heated up as much (and more for the hdd) than when I run games like UT2004.
Have these things been resolved in the Universal client? What made this one so inefficient?
Dynamic recompilation - the very fact you are trying to run a PowerPC program on an Intel processor, so Rosetta is having to take every PowerPC CPU instruction and then translate it and correct endianness for the program to work at all. You might like to think that Rosetta is running the program at native speed, but in reality, it rarely is.

The client on average is only taking a quarter to a third of my CPU for me on PowerPC 1.4GHz.

Also why is your GraalOnline icon in your task manager the same as Vendetta Online's application icon?
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