Solve your NTVDM 100 % CPU usage problem

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Recently i was working on a DOS program (16 Bit) and was playing music on Winamp.But as soon as the application powered up, it sucked up my CPU (100% usage) and the songs started to skip .... tired of searching microsoft's site for some explanation on this, i jumped on to Google for some logical answers.

Now what i came up with was really awesome :)
Its called TameDos. It restricts the CPU usage to less than 20 % (almost all programs) depending on application and also the response time of key press and mouse movement was better(this is what i felt like not sure bout it though)

Click here to go to there Download page.

Hope you find this utility some what useful :)
 
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Good Application...There are many other DOS consoles, but I found this one useful....repped you for this nice find !!
 
you can also try DosBox for Dos emulation in almost any environment..

It is basically meant for those old dos games :)
 
^Same with me. I only get this trouble with tc++. iTunes used to stutter every few seconds when I am coding in that ugly dos ide. I solved it by setting the process priority to low manually in the task manager.

But now I use a batch file to do just that. Here's the code if anyone needs it:

Code: 
start "TC++" /d"D:\TCPP\BIN" /separate /low /b "D:\TCPP\BIN\TC.EXE"

For help on various params, check your windows help, if you still have it.
 
SiriusB said:
^Same with me. I only get this trouble with tc++. iTunes used to stutter every few seconds when I am coding in that ugly dos ide. I solved it by setting the process priority to low manually in the task manager.

But now I use a batch file to do just that. Here's the code if anyone needs it:
Code: 
start "TC++" /d"D:\TCPP\BIN" /separate /low /b "D:\TCPP\BIN\TC.EXE"

For help on various params, check your windows help, if you still have it.
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Yes...I used to do the same thing for WinXP/2000, but I think TameDOS has the least CPU usage...seems to be a really nice DOS console
 
didnt know such a thing could ever happend!! at least its never happened to me! thanks for the info anyway
 
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