On: BES – OSS Windows software to control per-process ...

[theamk]

It's a Windows app - if you are worried about overhead, you wouldn't be running Windows in the first place.

But to answer your question, I am sure this has plenty of overhead, but given there are no real alternatives, people still accept it. Better to waste some CPU time that have some totally unresponsive game.

[worewood → theamk]

The alternative is called Windows Job Objects, and it allows for limiting CPU and memory usage, among others.

There are numerous libraries and launchers on github; my favorite is [1].

CPU limits are only for Windows 8 or greater though, so for people still on Windows 7 or earlier, then okay, this post is relevant for them.

[1] : https://github.com/lowleveldesign/process-governor

[genevra → worewood]

Thanks for this, this seems the proper way to accomplish it