[pollofeliz]

For what it's worth, I did a couple of simple tests with com_singlecore set to 0 and 2 and timed my bench demo file. My laptop has Intel "Arrandale" i3-330m, dual core CPU with hyper-threading. I got something like 57 and 58fps. The tiny spread could easily be due to something other than the singlecore setting. It's sad UrT doesn't take advantage of more threads. By the way, one of the slower aspects of UrT is loading the map (it's not bad, but it could be faster). Is loading maps something that could be parallelized easily in future?

[FS Markinho]

Levels load time depends on your HDD speed, my old 5400rpm used to take up to 2 minutes to load the most complex maps, now the 7200rpm takes from 6 to 20 seconds, the SSD about 5-7s

[pollofeliz]

By the way, when I run UrT I see in the message log something like "generic Intel CPU detected". Does this mean I don't use an SSE optimized build? I just use the stock executable from the official distribution.

[Orbit]

p5yc0runn3r, on 12 April 2013 - 10:56 PM, said:

Force run on single CPU core/Process priority (Windows only):
Due to the nature of the Quake 3 engine, running on a single core will sometimes result in faster performance in some cases up to a 50% increase in frame rate.

New CVAR option:
/com_singlecore
Set to "0" to use all CPU cores as normal.
Set to "1" to use force first CPU core.
Set to "2" to use force second CPU core.
Set to "3" to use force third CPU core.
Etc...
If value is greater than "0" and the wanted CPU core is not found, the last valid CPU core will be forced. Only if value is "0" all CPU cores will be free to be used.
(This option needs a total game restart after change)
Default: "2"

New CVAR option:
/com_processpriority
Set to "0" for normal priority.
Set to "1" for above-normal priority.
Set to "2" for high priority.
Default: "0"

Any hope for linux users?

[Kirstenwilliamson23]

I tried the settings that you recommended and it worked well for me. In fact, it worked better than the one that I was already using. Thank you so much for these settings. I might be using the one you gave from now on. I really liked it. Thanks again.