Posted December 03, 2022
As said, the original vanilla version of BG1 uses up 1 processor core of my Windows 10 Lenovo Ideapad Gaming 3, while the rest remain unused.
This is expected behavior from an old game that wasn't meant for use with multiple CPUs.
However, it is infuriating to run a nearly 25 year old game on a modern machine and within minutes hear the CPU fan powering up to full speed. See, the sole core is heating up to 70+ degrees Celcius and therefore needs to be cooled.
But I hate overheating, hate fan noise.
Isn't there any way to keep the game from abusing the CPU knowing full well it doesn't need even a fraction of its power while sending it to the moon temperature-wise?
I found a single other thread that dealt with this. Unfortunately, there were no solutions, save setting the game to Win 95 compatibility mode. However, for some reason, it makes the game run incredibly slowly for me - I'm talking unusably slow, slideshow slow.
If no one can help with the issue itself, can somebody at least test whether setting original BG to Win 95 on a Win 10 produce the same problem for them - i.e. making the game run very slowly - so I can at least narrow the search field?
P.S. Please do not suggest using "Enhanced" editions. Thanks.
This is expected behavior from an old game that wasn't meant for use with multiple CPUs.
However, it is infuriating to run a nearly 25 year old game on a modern machine and within minutes hear the CPU fan powering up to full speed. See, the sole core is heating up to 70+ degrees Celcius and therefore needs to be cooled.
But I hate overheating, hate fan noise.
Isn't there any way to keep the game from abusing the CPU knowing full well it doesn't need even a fraction of its power while sending it to the moon temperature-wise?
I found a single other thread that dealt with this. Unfortunately, there were no solutions, save setting the game to Win 95 compatibility mode. However, for some reason, it makes the game run incredibly slowly for me - I'm talking unusably slow, slideshow slow.
If no one can help with the issue itself, can somebody at least test whether setting original BG to Win 95 on a Win 10 produce the same problem for them - i.e. making the game run very slowly - so I can at least narrow the search field?
P.S. Please do not suggest using "Enhanced" editions. Thanks.