Spiral Knights - [GUIDE] Improving overall performance in Spiral Knights

[GUIDE] Improving overall performance in Spiral Knights

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Thu, 02/17/2011 - 19:33

Berol

This guide is for those who have multicore processors
Hopefully it will boost your performance when playing Spiral Knights.

1.) Open task manager
-You know... ctrl+alt+del
-or ctrl+shift+escape
-or right click the task bar and click start task manager
2.) Go to processes tab
3.) Find and right click the spiral knights process
-It should be the "javaw.exe" process
4.) Click set affinity
5.) Uncheck all boxes except CPU 0
6.) Click ok and close task manager

The changes should occur immediately and you can make changes wherever you are, in the game, just alt + tab out of the game or something.

I run spiral knights on a less than average to average laptop and I noticed a huge increase in performance.
Loading times were cut in about half in all cases.
And the frames per second went up dramatically.
I was even able to run the game at a higher resolution.

However, if your computer is already awesome, this guide may not be as helpful to you.

One final note, you must do this every time you start up the game.

And with that, good luck, and enjoy spiral knights!

Thu, 02/17/2011 - 19:56

Saphykun

I want to know... is this

I want to know... is this safe for my computer? I don't want any programs to run wrong or blow up or anything like that... :{

Thu, 02/17/2011 - 20:54

Berol

All that will happen is that

All that will happen is that your computer will use less processing power, but more efficiently.

Thu, 02/17/2011 - 20:55

Shoebox

KA-BOOM

And then explode.

Thu, 02/17/2011 - 23:20

Dogrock

I'm not sure why this would

I'm not sure why this would make SK work better as the Java environment can easily utilize four processor cores.

On a generic business type laptop (read: not for games) it made no difference. It simply doesn't have the graphics grunt.

On a high end desktop this actually slowed down the game. Limiting the game to a single core cut down significantly on the resources the game had access to.

Loading times in SK are very dependent on when your HDD is doing while SK is running. Having System Restore going while trying to play SK on a laptop results in huge loading times. However, if you have the RAM, the next type you load that environment it will be lightning fast as SK likes to keep everything in the RAM if it can.

You might want to check on your Java installation if limiting its resources makes it run faster. Even if the program running isn't designed with multi-core in mid the Java Virtual Machine still has side functions that are very happy with extra cores.

There's also a certain point where the game just can't run any faster. The game runs below at about 45FPS in the Arcade even though CPU and GPU loads hover at about 30%.

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[GUIDE] Improving overall performance in Spiral Knights