Virtually decrease PC performances ?

Troll-Brain

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Hi.

I have a quite good pc, totally overskilled for warcraft 3, which make me hard to test if something can be improved when i make a custom map.

Without change any thing in my pc, can i decrease temporally these performances in a some stable and accurate way ?
 

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you can underclock your cpu in the bios (even disable cores if you want) for a fixed number, and then set it back when your done

some computers (laptops mostly I think) also have the ability to limit the CPU usage to a certain %age (it helps /w batter life, you would find this in the power options panel)

a not-so-fixed way would be to simply use task manager and lower wc3's priority, and then run some other background programs
 

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Thx.

a not-so-fixed way would be to simply use task manager and lower wc3's priority, and then run some other background programs
You mean it won't be stable or/and neither accurate ?

EDIT : Ok, i got it, because you need to run an other program, it won't be accurate, neither stable.

What about the graphic card ?
 

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EDIT : Ok, i got it, because you need to run an other program, it won't be accurate, neither stable.

What about the graphic card ?

wc3 really isn't graphics intensive, especially at lower settings (which would be safe to say that people with weaker computers are running at)

and everything mentioned is stable (i.e. wont crash on you) as long as your "background program" is also stable (an anti-virus scan may be a good one)

what I meant by inaccurate was that you cant compare your system to another, which you could with the first two methods (roughly)
 

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what I meant by inaccurate was that you cant compare your system to another, which you could with the first two methods (roughly)
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Hmm ok, i would go for the bios way so.
Thx for the help.
 

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Safest way is to use a Virtual Machine.
Easiest too, but you'd have to install everything again.
 

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A Virtual Machine uses the computers hardware to emulate another computer.
Using one, you can install and run several operating systems inside of the main one.

Here: http://www.virtualbox.org/
I use that one. I run DSL (Damn Small Linux), and Xubuntu using it.

It's much safer than playing with the bios.
 

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while running it in a virtual machine will definitely make it run slower, it's not really a fixed amount slower, and it's more complicated then just running a background program, so I don't see how it's better... as for safe, I don't see anything dangerous? under-clocking wont hurt anything...
 

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Entering the BIOS itself it dangerous. It's really easy to screw something up.
Using a VM is a lot safer.
 

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Well, i don't have the habit to go inside the bios but i won't be a dumb, if i have just a tiny doubt i won't do anything and ask more help before doing something.
It's more inaccurate so i won't use it. (talking about the VM)
 
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