The latest Windows 10 for Workstations build features a new ‘Ultimate Performance‘ power plan to deal with potential micro-latencies. Sound familiar? Yes, here at Bitsum we’ve had the ‘Bitsum Highest Performance‘ power plan for years. It seems somebody important finally caught on. While I have mixed feelings any time Microsoft starts to encroach, I do […]
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Summary: Setting up Process Lasso is straightforward. Once installed, the ProBalance algorithm automatically starts enhancing system responsiveness during heavy loads. It’s uncommon for users to need to exclude processes from ProBalance because the algorithm is 1) very conservative and 2) typically does not slow down processes it affects unless there is significant CPU contention. However, […]
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Virtual memory ‘trimmers’ or RAM ‘cleaners’, whatever you want to call them, they’ve been a staple in the industry since the days of NT4. Almost all of these apps are best avoided! Most operate on the incorrect premise that you want more ‘free’ RAM. In fact, RAM should be as occupied as possible with commonly […]
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Please do not forget to check the ProBalance Options. I designed it to be as safe and conservative as possible, thus for some multimedia users you may need to uncheck the following: Ignore the foreground process Do not act on processes of non-normal priority These may inhibit the full might of ProBalance coming down on […]
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How do I tweak my PC for maximum performance? Today I will attempt to give a single answer so I’m not repeating myself so often. FIRST, you need to install Process Lasso or CPUBalance. Why either/or? Well, both provide the ProBalance algorithm that keeps background processes at-bay. Forget all other tweaking for the moment. You WANT […]
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I am a little annoyed by SEO today. A lesser quality app than ParkControl and incorrect guidance are found in search results. They bring the user to a tool that does a brute-force search of the registry to change the applicable CPU power subsystem options, and then often mandate a reboot afterwards. Any site with fake ‘download […]
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This is an except from our page here. What about Foreground Boosting (NOT what ProBalance does)? Foreground boosting is a common scheme used by some snake-oil software. Do not be fooled! The foreground process is that which has the keyboard and mouse focus. This means there is only ever one foreground process at a time, […]
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Symmetric Multi-Threading (SMT), also known as Hyper-Threading, exposes two logical CPU cores for every physical CPU core. It does this by sharing computational units of the physical CPU core between the two virtual CPU cores. If neither of the paired cores needs to use the same CPU resources, then they can run simultaneously. This allows […]
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Are you a Process Lasso user who really only uses the famous ProBalance algorithm? If so, you should consider the much cheaper (and more free) CPUBalance. It is now an either/or scenario, because Process Lasso contains all of CPUBalance functionality, so if you need Process Lasso, then you don’t need CPUBalance. In any event, for […]
Read more Some may note we removed the language selection in v9. It now honors whatever your OS selection is. If you want to over-ride this, all you need to do is re-download and run the installer. Now, I will say we have had conflicting reports about the success of this, but presently see it as a […]
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