CPU utilization?

[Lazy_Perfectionist]

Crappy laptop- specs will not be shared, simply below standards for Windows Vista. Intel Graphics (I was in a pinch, hey, needed something quick for internet) is not what a gamer considers a graphics card. Putting aside the graphics, its not even a card, I believe.

--noglext I usually run with because of my "Intel Graphics" needs somethings turned off to be compatible, but is otherwise irrelevant to macinintosh, I expect, especially if you have no clearly graphical problems running.

With just that switch, I see a constant 40-50% CPU utilization. Windowed mode, so I can see my use live.

Then I add --noanimback , to turn off animated backgrounds. I see a lot of 6-25% range, and at certain parts of the creation process, 40% cpu use. After which its back down to a simple 5%, consistently.

I suspect - though I don't know, that certain graphics tasks are offloading themselves to the cpu (for whatever reason, some quite valid, some not) and are what makes dom3 such a proc. hog during simple character creation.