CPU getting hammered with xconq-7.5.0-0pre.0.20040519

[Jon Leech <nospam at oddhack dot engr dot sgi dot com>]

    I've been trying out Eric's xconq-7.5.0-0pre.0.20040519 RPMs on
Mandrake 10 (after some install bobbles involving, we suspect, a subtly
broken or behavior-changed version of RPM that came with the distro -
BTW, if anyone else is seeing weird checksum errors from rpm version 4.2
on these RPMs, resigning the RPM with '--resign' seems to fix it).

    Initially xconq works well, although it seems in general somewhat
more sluggish than 7.4.1 running on Mandrake 9.2. After a few
minutes/turns of playing, however, the CPU usage on my machine starts
getting hammered (top shows xconq consuming 98% of the CPU), and the
game becomes effectively unplayable - response time on the order of half
a second for each hex movement. This is invoking the standard scenario
with a bunch of computer opponents e.g.

    xconq -L /usr/share/xconq -e 8,ai -M 78x76

    Saving the game and restarting improves matters briefly,
but quickly returns to sucking up all the CPU.

    I looked back a few weeks through the list archive subjects and
didn't see any similar reports - but I haven't examined all the message
bodies, so apologies if this has already been reported.


    An unrelated issue: it looks like at least some of the options in
the 'View' menu aren't being saved. For example, if I start up a game,
disable 'Unit names' and 'Feature names', enable 'Meridians', save, and
restart with the saved game, those options are restored to their
original state rather than the state I set.

    Jon