It is said that for some lower powered machines, the Source game engine may actually run the fastest with some unconventional settings.
Lets say you have a weak machine. Like the world's toastiest toaster. Maximum toast.
You want to play Counter Strike or Team Fortress or something like that with all your gamer friends on the Interwebs. You want to hit at least that sweet 60 FPS.
First off, try playing the game on all the recommended settings. The defaults.
Yeah I know, your craptop probably can't handle High everything and low on shadows on a 24 man CS:GO server. But the Source engine works in mysterious ways. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. Don't ask why or how. YMMV.
Second, try turning everything down to lowest. Duh. Everything except resolution if you're playing in full screen. Some monitors cannot display scaled outputs as efficiently as their native resolution and so lower resolutions may actually result in worse performance. If that fails too, drop the resolution as low as it can be to still be comfortable, and give it a shot.
For reference, I play all my games in a windowed mode at 1024x768 on a normally 1080p screen. While I dev. On a laptop. Don't ask why, it's just preference.
Third, actually try moving some of the video settings up a bit, from lowest to something like medium. The Source engine is old, and lowest settings will sometimes offload graphics work onto your CPU instead of using whatever low level GPU you might have. Bumping settings up a bit will hopefully make the engine use your CPU and GPU equally. YMMV.
Finally, if all else fails, consider tossing out your old toaster machine for a nicer machine, like a high quality microwave or a fancy shmancy broiler. Unfortunately, not every machine is capable of playing the vidja games, and such is life.
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Sunday, November 27, 2016
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Power Manager and PadLock received a small enhancement which reworks some of the back end logic. As a result, smaller APK size. Also, the applications no longer rely on Google Play Services to run. This should open them up to wider audiences in places like India and China which do not always run on Google Play devices.
General bugfixes in many of the applications, a lot of busy work behind the scenes, nothing all too noteworthy.
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Hi so
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Power Manager and PadLock received a small enhancement which reworks some of the back end logic. As a result, smaller APK size. Also, the applications no longer rely on Google Play Services to run. This should open them up to wider audiences in places like India and China which do not always run on Google Play devices.
General bugfixes in many of the applications, a lot of busy work behind the scenes, nothing all too noteworthy.
More stuff when I feel like stuffing.
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Power Manager update released
Power Manager update has been released which brings support for things like automatic airplane mode, better Doze control, more reliable Power Triggers, and an additional option to fully enable or disable Root features in the Settings section of the application.
The update has been pushed to the store, expect a notification at the earliest tomorrow morning.
EDIT: A tiny hotfix has been pushed. If you are running on Power Manager 6.5.3, please update to the fixed version, 6.5.5
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The update has been pushed to the store, expect a notification at the earliest tomorrow morning.
EDIT: A tiny hotfix has been pushed. If you are running on Power Manager 6.5.3, please update to the fixed version, 6.5.5
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PadLock update released
PadLock update has been released which brings support for things like old application purging and ignore which the device is locked. It also reduces memory usage and optimizes some of the locking code to make it more effective.
The update has been pushed to the store, expect a notification at the earliest tomorrow morning.
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The update has been pushed to the store, expect a notification at the earliest tomorrow morning.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Better Steam performance placebo
One of the processes that runs when you launch Steam is the Steam web helper process (steamwebhelper.exe) which is an embedded instance of Chromium used by the Steam platform to show you things like the Steam Store, Steam Community, and your Steam profile page among various other things.
The Steam Web Helper is great for those who enjoy the many social aspects of Steam as a platform, but for those just looking to open up Steam and launch Counter Strike so that they can lose yet another 1v1 Arena online, the Steam web helper is of little use. For these kinds of people, the web helper consumes a large amount of memory running a Chrome process, and can occasionally lead to crashes on platforms like obscure Linuxes.
By launching steam with:
The embedded web browser process is not started. This saves on some nice system resources, but unfortunately also prevents you from opening the Steam Store, Community, or Profile/Inventory in the client. For those with lower resource machines, or those who simply don't care about those Steam features, it can be a nice help.
Note that Steam does not officially support configurations running without the browser instance. I also assume no responsibility for anything you may mess up. I also cannot guarantee that the performance you may see improving is not entirely just placebo.
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The Steam Web Helper is great for those who enjoy the many social aspects of Steam as a platform, but for those just looking to open up Steam and launch Counter Strike so that they can lose yet another 1v1 Arena online, the Steam web helper is of little use. For these kinds of people, the web helper consumes a large amount of memory running a Chrome process, and can occasionally lead to crashes on platforms like obscure Linuxes.
By launching steam with:
steam -no-browser
The embedded web browser process is not started. This saves on some nice system resources, but unfortunately also prevents you from opening the Steam Store, Community, or Profile/Inventory in the client. For those with lower resource machines, or those who simply don't care about those Steam features, it can be a nice help.
Note that Steam does not officially support configurations running without the browser instance. I also assume no responsibility for anything you may mess up. I also cannot guarantee that the performance you may see improving is not entirely just placebo.
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update-hosts-updates
Update hosts has been updated to (hopefully) remove the reliance on GNU specific extension to command line tools like grep and sed. As a result, the script should run on systems that do not specifically use the GNU tools, although I'm sure most users will not notice a difference.
The sources list has been updated, one of the ipset sources was removed and iprange optimization is automically applied if you have the FireHOL iprange program installed in your PATH.
Other news, I would like to make a Power Manager release soon as it brings many improvements for normal and rooted users, as well as the automatic control of Airplane mode which is a big battery help.
PadLock has some improvements which allow it to not disturb applications on the lock screen, as well as purge any old applications that are no longer installed.
ZapTorch, WordWiz, Home Button, and Pasterino have all received general bugfixes to keep them up to date with the latest version of Android.
git-ssh was also updated to remove the need for risky evals by using a custom implementation of arrays in POSIX sh.
iptables-restrictor was updated to include better support for logging when packets are restricted and is better at automatically handling UNIX groups for you.
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The sources list has been updated, one of the ipset sources was removed and iprange optimization is automically applied if you have the FireHOL iprange program installed in your PATH.
Other news, I would like to make a Power Manager release soon as it brings many improvements for normal and rooted users, as well as the automatic control of Airplane mode which is a big battery help.
PadLock has some improvements which allow it to not disturb applications on the lock screen, as well as purge any old applications that are no longer installed.
ZapTorch, WordWiz, Home Button, and Pasterino have all received general bugfixes to keep them up to date with the latest version of Android.
git-ssh was also updated to remove the need for risky evals by using a custom implementation of arrays in POSIX sh.
iptables-restrictor was updated to include better support for logging when packets are restricted and is better at automatically handling UNIX groups for you.
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Saturday, November 12, 2016
pstate-frequency-notice
An update to pstate-frequency has just been pushed which changes the following:
A deprecation notice has been included for various --set options. The next release of pstate-frequency, 3.7.0, will remove support for these ambiguous input options.
The --set options for turbo, governor, x86, and plan will no longer take numeric inputs as valid. They will require a string input, things like on, off, or governor/ power plan names to work correctly.
The --set options for min and max will no longer take string inputs as valid, meaning that passing the values 'min' or 'max' will no longer work.
When running pstate-frequency 3.6.3, a warning will appear (unless you have suppressed all output with -qq) if you are running into a situation where you would be calling pstate-frequency with these deprecated inputs.
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A deprecation notice has been included for various --set options. The next release of pstate-frequency, 3.7.0, will remove support for these ambiguous input options.
The --set options for turbo, governor, x86, and plan will no longer take numeric inputs as valid. They will require a string input, things like on, off, or governor/ power plan names to work correctly.
The --set options for min and max will no longer take string inputs as valid, meaning that passing the values 'min' or 'max' will no longer work.
When running pstate-frequency 3.6.3, a warning will appear (unless you have suppressed all output with -qq) if you are running into a situation where you would be calling pstate-frequency with these deprecated inputs.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016
pstate-frequency and friends
A small update was released today for pstate-frequency and friends. The update fixes a bug in the processing of input as digits. Please update to version 3.6.1 when you next get the chance.
As for friends, iptables-restrictor now has the ability to create the group for you before adding iptables rules, and understands port ranges instead of just single ports.
git-ssh has been updated to remove the need for some hacky calls to eval. With these new changes, you can safely enter input without needing to use multiple backslashes to escape things. You can also embed symbols in your commit messages. It should be much more compatible now with the actual git program.
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As for friends, iptables-restrictor now has the ability to create the group for you before adding iptables rules, and understands port ranges instead of just single ports.
git-ssh has been updated to remove the need for some hacky calls to eval. With these new changes, you can safely enter input without needing to use multiple backslashes to escape things. You can also embed symbols in your commit messages. It should be much more compatible now with the actual git program.
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