Irrlicht Engine

Hey i followed the indirect advice of hendu and yes software renderer must use cpu. When i changed to opengl(cause im on linux!:) ) it didn't make the cpu freak out. Thanks for the help!

i tried using vsync in the createdevice function but didn't change anything...looking up documentation for it it seems as if it is only for fullscreen?

I am running the first example in irrlicht and noticed on my quad core it uses the equvilent of a whole core(some on each core) i am using ubuntu 13.10 and was wondering if there was any way to lower the cpu load. I just think for a small app it is rediculous to use that much(i have intel core i5 ...