I was a little worried when playing a game of BW last night when my CPU hit 62ºc due to StarCraft.exe stealing every available cycle. So I made this little plugin for BWLauncher / ChaosLauncher which will introduce small 1ms delays every so often. This greatly reduces CPU usage and thus saves energy and money and the environment etc!

The latest version should now work fine with replays and also have low CPU usage during BNET screens.

Download:
http://r-1.ch/cpusavior-1.6.zip

Source (not required):
http://r-1.ch/CPUSavior.cpp

Install:
Put in the ChaosLauncher/BWL directory and tick the 'CPU Savior' plugin when launching.

ray1234

Canada679 Posts

February 06 2008 01:10 GMT

this is false advertising

MeriaDoKk

Chile1726 Posts

February 06 2008 01:11 GMT

wow nice, specially to me that i dont have too much RAM

R1CH

Netherlands10340 Posts

February 06 2008 01:13 GMT

On February 06 2008 10:10 ray1234 wrote:
this is false advertising

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

sAviOr?

haduken

Australia8267 Posts

February 06 2008 01:14 GMT

give source code code code

email me at yma8000@gmail.com

ShaLLoW[baY]

Canada12499 Posts

February 06 2008 01:15 GMT

On February 06 2008 10:13 R1CH wrote:

Show nested quote +

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

sAviOr?

I did :p
Thanks R1CH, much love <3

jimminy_kriket

Canada5475 Posts

February 06 2008 01:16 GMT

Nice! It's always bothered me that blizzard has never released a patch to lower cpu usage below its ridiculous 100%. R1CH to the rescue.

I don't think I'll use it though, i only play on a pentium 2 so im not too worried about energy costs ;p. Maybe on my laptop to stop it from burning me..

R1CH

Netherlands10340 Posts

February 06 2008 01:20 GMT

On February 06 2008 10:14 haduken wrote:
give source code code code

email me at yma8000@gmail.com

Since you asked so nicely, here's the messy source with lots of notes and old ideas (requires BWLTemplate project to build of course): http://r-1.ch/CPUSavior.cpp

Equinox_kr

United States7395 Posts

February 06 2008 01:26 GMT

On February 06 2008 10:13 R1CH wrote:

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

sAviOr?

YES

Equinox_kr

United States7395 Posts

February 06 2008 01:26 GMT

#10

Great job though, I think it would help a lot of people with ridiculously powerful computers here on TL

SnowFantasy

4173 Posts

February 06 2008 01:29 GMT

#11

On February 06 2008 10:26 Equinox_kr wrote:

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YES

T____T so did I. Or, at least, I wanted one.

MoRe_mInErAls

Canada1210 Posts

February 06 2008 01:35 GMT

#12

I was so close to beating sAviOr straight-up with cheats

One day..

R1CH

Netherlands10340 Posts

February 06 2008 01:39 GMT

#13

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...

Imagination

243 Posts

February 06 2008 01:44 GMT

#14

On February 06 2008 10:15 ShaLLoW[baY] wrote:

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I did :p
Thanks R1CH, much love <3

same here.=]

SnowFantasy

4173 Posts

February 06 2008 01:48 GMT

#15

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...

Haha, I forgive you. I will try this program real soon. Thank you for your work.