you probably know by now that the server requires very little in
resources. The palace client is known for being a CPU hog, if you have
temp sensors set up on your computer you will notice the while the
palace client is running, your CPU will heat up dramatically as well.

--- In palace-client@yahoogroups.com, "thedarknitez"
<thedarknitez@y...> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone, I have an odd problem which seems to be related to any
> type of Palace client that I run on my machine upon connecting to a
> palace. My machine specs are:
> Pentium III, 2 Gigahertz, 512 RAM, 130 GIG HDD, Windows XP Home
> Edition, DSL Connection
>
> While Palace is open but not connected my CPU usage from it's process
> is less than 5%, but the moment that I connect it goes up to 99% and
> my total processes max out at 100% CPU. This doesn't seem to
> significantly affect my machine's performance unless I have two
> clients open at the same time *one a diff GUI and uses separate palace
> reg but otherwise not changed*, then I do see a slight delay in some
> programs. I have changed the compatibility to 98 with no difference in
> the CPU usage.
>
> Any help would be appreciated as I am also opening a server to the
> public on my machine this coming weekend and I am concerned that I may
> not be able to be on my own palace when I have sufficient connections
> causing the server to up it's own CPU usage.
>
> Ummm... also how do I change my name appearance in the posts here?
>
> BloodStar
>