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DESCRIPTION
Game Optimizer is a project designed to make sure you get the most out of your gaming experience. It will work with ANY game.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.0 adds user definable game optimization method.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.0 or later.


Developer:Mike Mueller
Downloads:4,860
  - Version d/l:2,167
Utilities:Optimizers
License:Free
Date:14 Aug 2004
Platform:PPC
RATING
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    Aug 14 2006

    KOODOUGH  Ug I can't get this App to work. I start Second Life (game) and then follow though the Game Optimizer.

    I receive an error...

    renice: Bad pid argument: 348

    350

    352.

    #s vary

    Please help me.

    do I have to use the Root password instead the Admin?  
    (Version 3.0)

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    Jul 18 2005

    ANONYMOUS  Anyway you could make this a readable script so we can see what its doing?Not that I think its doing anything wrong but I think it will help people learn.  
    (Version 3.0)

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    Sep 4 2005

    ANONYMOUS  "Game Optimizer uses AppleScript to prompt the user to enter the name of the game. Then using several shell commands via AppleScript, it determines the Process ID (PID). Once i has the PID it then does a renice on it, effectively changing it's priority from -1 to -2. In addition, it renices WindowServer, which is the process that handles the graphics for OS X, to -1."

    Heh.  
    (Version 3.0)

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    Jul 15 2005

    ANONYMOUS  There's no point in running Diablo II at a framerate faster than the cap because all the animation are based on that cap – there would be nothing to show in the extra frames. They'd only be duplicates,  
    (Version 3.0)

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    Aug 14 2004

    ANONYMOUS  Hi Mike,

    I haven't yet found a place where there's a complete/full description of what this script does: Am I to understand this optimizes specific games via renice?

    I'm going to test AoM & report back with my results!  
    (Version 3.0)

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    Aug 14 2004

    MACMEISTER  Ok, I just launched it, and I'm getting the following error (I'm running Panther 10.3.5, G4/1.467ghz/512 RAM/Radeon 8500):

    "Could not run the script "Game Optimizer.app" because of a scripting system (OSA) error."

    Any idea why it would do this?  
    (Version 3.0)

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    Aug 14 2004

    MIKE MUELLER  Hmmm. I can't see why my app wouldn't work. You're the first one to express problems with 3.0. Make sure your AppleScript is up-to-date.  
    (Version 3.0)

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    Jun 28 2004

    MIKE MUELLER  Well I haven't added Quake 3 support yet, I can't seem to find someone with it, if you have it IM me please, AIM: obsoletevalkaire MSN: supervalkaire@hotmail.com.  
    (Version 2.0)

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    Jun 28 2004
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    FIREWIRE  well it doesn't make a single fps difference in Quake III  
    (Version 2.0)

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    Jun 28 2004

    MIKE MUELLER  I wasn't aware there was such a thing as an FPS cap.  
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    Jun 28 2004
    ****½

    UMAROMC  Useful for these few apps. Too bad it can't remove Blizzards FPS cap on single-player Diablo II... I'm sure that'd be quite a feat, though... I'm not even requesting this feature, that'd require hacking the app, I'm sure...  
    (Version 2.0)

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