[bf1942] Formula for calculating CPU status?

[Andrew Chen]

I guess that this would be a good argument to run BF as a Service under
Windows (so it doesn't have to setup DirectX?)  Does running it as a
service vs. as a foreground application even make a difference?

How is Ryan planning on calculating CPU status on the Linux side?


On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Christopher Kunz wrote:

> Andrew Chen wrote:
> > Hello-
> > Does anyone know what formula BF uses to calculate "CPU status"?  Is it
> > based strictly on CPU speed?  Total CPU load over a certain (small)
> > interval?  Amount of CPU used by the BF process over its life span?  It'd
> > be appreciated.  Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Well, from what I remember, BF42 used to calculate that from the FPS the
> server is able to spit out - as the Windows dedicated server seemed to
> be a client minus DirectX plus remote console.
>
> Under Linux, however, this fps rate is hard coded to 25 fps.
>
> That's all only an AFAIR shot in the dark, withouth time to properly
> query the archive.
>
> --ck
>
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