"ParkControl is free software to display and tweak CPU core parking settings in real-time, among other features."
https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/
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"ParkControl is free software to display and tweak CPU core parking settings in real-time, among other features."
https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/
This program is by the excellent folks behind Process Lasso. It's essentially for very high performance at the cost of some additional electricity. CPU parking is by and large a good thing and saves on electricity, but when even small delays are painful, this can help.
Big thanks to Midas for explaining this to me.
Requires admin rights and it's a pretty specific use case, meaning I don't see a lot of portable apps users with high end processor needs. Native portability is untested but could probably be enabled via the command-line powercfg.exe utility.
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