On February 06 2008 10:39 R1CH wrote:
It actually never occurred to me until after I posted that it could be interpreted this way. I originally named it CPU Saver and then you can see where my line of thought went...

Lol dunno if you really did it on purpose for more publicity... :p Either way it's a nice program.

3 Lions

United States3705 Posts

March 21 2008 14:24 GMT

#62

On February 06 2008 10:13 R1CH wrote:

Show nested quote +

Come on now, did you really expect an AI (Z)

sAviOr?

yes

[X]Ken_D

United States4653 Posts

March 21 2008 14:49 GMT

#63

I think it is possible that the program doesn't work for me because the feature is not available in P3 celeron and P4.

DamageControL

United States4222 Posts

March 21 2008 15:50 GMT

#64

On February 06 2008 10:13 R1CH wrote:

Show nested quote +

Come on now, did you really expect an AI (Z)

sAviOr?

as so many have said before me HELL YEAH

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

March 22 2008 23:59 GMT

#65

On March 21 2008 23:49 [X]Ken_D wrote:
I think it is possible that the program doesn't work for me because the feature is not available in P3 celeron and P4.

It doesn't make use of any processor-specific instructions, it should work on anything.

Darkmole

United States900 Posts

March 23 2008 00:41 GMT

#66

wats a CPU???? cuz im so confuzed right now

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

March 27 2008 09:04 GMT

#67

This version should hopefully fix the severe delay / lag issue some people were having. Please let me know if it works.

http://r-1.ch/cpusavior-1.2.zip

distant_voice

Germany2521 Posts

March 27 2008 09:59 GMT

#68

On March 23 2008 09:41 Darkmole wrote:
wats a CPU???? cuz im so confuzed right now

google + wikipedia = win

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_processing_unit

[X]Ken_D

United States4653 Posts

March 27 2008 10:45 GMT

#69

On March 27 2008 18:04 R1CH wrote:
This version should hopefully fix the severe delay / lag issue some people were having. Please let me know if it works.

http://r-1.ch/cpusavior-1.2.zip

OMG!!@!! It works for me on my Celeron P3 laptop! I got to try this out on my P4 desktop.

YOU'RE THE BEST R1CH! THANKS!

kAra

Germany1441 Posts

March 27 2008 12:30 GMT

#70

bw closes some sec before joining battle net .. : (

ossguy

Canada20 Posts

March 31 2008 06:07 GMT

#71

I have created a tool similar to CPU Savior called StarCraft Power Saver. I just released the first version, 0.1, at http://ossguy.com/starcraft_power_saver/ with a blog post at http://ossguy.com/?p=28, which you can comment on if you like. This could probably use a new thread, but as a new member I can't create threads for 10 days so if someone wants to start one for me, that would be great.

StarCraft Power Saver is different from CPU Savior in that it modifies the StarCraft executable directly so you don't need to run any external programs. From what I've read of CPU Savior, StarCraft Power Saver is similar to CPU Savior in most other ways. Any feedback on the tool would be appreciated.

Chosi

Germany1309 Posts

March 31 2008 11:57 GMT

#72

modyfing SC.exe = no Bnet = no use, sorry

ossguy

Canada20 Posts

March 31 2008 16:32 GMT

#73

Thanks to Physician for starting a new thread for StarCraft Power Saver. You can view it at http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=68753. Please post comments about StarCraft Power Saver to that thread instead of this one.

hunter3

United States155 Posts

April 01 2008 21:32 GMT

#74

Thanks a lot! CPU usage averages 3% and I can play without plugging in the laptop now. The only problem occurs when I load the mineral hack detection (KM9v109), then CPU spikes back to 100%. I guess the two are incompatible. This program's more useful anyways.

ossguy

Canada20 Posts

April 03 2008 17:36 GMT

#75

On March 31 2008 20:57 Chosi wrote:
modyfing SC.exe = no Bnet = no use, sorry

People who want to use StarCraft Power Saver or similar applications on Battle.net should read these two posts on the SC Power Saver thread:
- Blizzard, cheating, and Battle.net protections
- alternatives to Battle.net for Internet play

MasterOfChaos

Germany2896 Posts

April 03 2008 21:13 GMT

#76

For every current protection there is still an easy way around (well except a regularily updated Warden which gets a bit harder). You can even modify SC-Code, as long as you do it in memory and remove the modification during bnet signon.
But of cause there always is a small banrisk. Smaller for some plugins(Chaosplugin), and larger for others (APMAlert,most AdvLoader Plugins).

flag

United States228 Posts

April 12 2008 19:17 GMT

#77

Now that it is getting hot I decided to try this out. It reduces cpu usage properly, but starcraft crashes when I try to log into bnet or go into single player.

I am using windows 2000 with amd 2ghz dual core. Any idea why this would happen?

Also if this can have all kinks worked out it would be great if it were an option in the iccup launcher as well.

jimminy_kriket

Canada5539 Posts

April 12 2008 19:29 GMT

#78

I get mouse lag when I use this. Its not terrible, ive played full games with it, but its pretty annoying. Would it be possible to adjust the plugin to use more cpu power to possibly get rid of the little bit of mouse lag?

GinNtoniC

Sweden2945 Posts

June 02 2008 11:45 GMT

#79

Sorry for bumping this old baybe, but I'm having this issue (surprise surprise) where I basically have to choose between an overheated CPU and a laggy starcraft.

See, my CPU tends to overheat and cause system crashes ever so often when I play starcraft. That is, more often than not lately. Using CPU savior I at least avoid the overheating, but it's a traddeoff for a pretty darn big portion of lagg, mouse-related or otherwise - I seriously have problem telling.
I've run a performance monitor which claims my CPU is running at 45-50% and RAM at ~25% when playing without the CPU savior, and about 3% CPU usage and a bit lower RAM when using CPU savior.

On top of it I've recently started getting application errors too, something along the line of "Faulty program starcraft.exe, version 1.15.2.1, wrong module , version 0.0.0.0, wrong adress 0x00000000." - roughly translated from Swedish.
Said errors at least - thankfully enough - don't crash the system, just the game.

Reinstalled and cleared all SC-related files on computer I think 3 times in the past 2 weeks.
All proper drivers installed for graphics card and checked the CPU fans for dust. I'm clueless by now :S

I suppose this is just a shoutout to whoever recognizes said problem or just has some insight to it.
And help/tips would be greatly appreciated.

(Playing on an Intel Core 2 Quad-core
Graphics card: GeForce 8800GT 512MB GDDR3
all on a -07 GIGABYTE mothercard, which modelnumber I for the life of me can't remember)