High CPU load under linux

[CaptnLenz]

Hello,

I'm running Darkest Hour on my Ubuntu Laptop under wine.

The game itself runs really good but with two issues.

1. Loading of a savegame or a new scenario takes a lot of time. It takes like 5 minutes or more to load a savegame on my machine. This is not a major thing because I simply don't quit the game
   
   
2. My CPU load is always 100% when running the game. In the main menu it's around 22% but ingame it's always 100%. The problem with this is not lag or something but that my machine gets fairly hot because of this.
   This is even when the game is on pause and I've switched to a different workspace. I presume that the game does not need that much ressources all the time. So there is some kind of problem here.
   
   Is this the same on windows? If not has someone an idea what I can do about this?
   
   I know that the wine layer slows things down, but not to that degree. The fact that the usage is always 100% no matter what happens in the game makes me think that there is a different problem.

regards and thanks in advance

My specs:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz
6 GB RAM
Onboard graphics

wine-1.8.5 (Ubuntu 1.8.5-1ubuntu2) with a 32bit wineprefix

 

[^_AC_^]

Hi,
unfortunately I don't have an answer to your questions.

 

[CaptnLenz]

Hi,
unfortunately I don't have an answer to your questions.

Thanks for the reply anyway

I've found some kind of workaround: Limiting the cpu frequency with cpufrequtils similar to this.

Going from 1.7 Ghz to 1.2 Ghz had no impact on the smoothness of the game (in a brief test) but reduced the CPU temperature from 71° C to 57° C which is really noticeable. (Idle temperature is around 51° C)

 

[taffy3]

Yeah, what you're describing isn't unique to running the game on Linux. The game behaves the same way under Windows. This is also nothing new, I'm pretty sure this behavior of spinning the CPU even when the game is paused goes back at least to the original HOI2 (can't speak to HOI1).
Scaling your CPU frequency via the OS is a neat trick. I'll have to give that a try.

 

[Timur Khan]

Exactly the CPU usage stopped me from using Linux/Wine with DH on my laptop. Every time my laptop just turned itself off when the CPU reached above 80 C. However my old PC which runs Debian Jessie does not care about temperatures. If this CPU problem can be fixed I would be very grateful and every Linux user here.