libstrangle VS cpulimit

This is a bit of a wild guess, but if you happen to be on Linux, you might be able to use libstrangle to throttle the framerate like so: strangle 60 wine Le04.exe.

I have no other os to test it. AMD Adrenalin should work on Linux too and people with NVidia GPU can use libstrangle.

Here's the link for their repository: https://gitlab.com/torkel104/libstrangle

check out libstrangle at https://gitlab.com/torkel104/libstrangle and it has and it also has a section that explains v-sync

I play Elden Ring at 25 fps / 50 Hz and am prolly too old to see any difference. I had a look at the old libstrangle I used on Linux: https://gitlab.com/torkel104/libstrangle/-/blob/master/src/limiter.c

libstrangle

There's technically also libstrangle but it can be hit and miss depending on the setup. I used that to cheat and slow down the final airhockey game in Beyond Good and Evil and it did the job lol.

libstrangle is good for it: https://gitlab.com/torkel104/libstrangle

I even tried using Cpulimit to try limiting it to 90%. Idk, the program tells to set a number from 0 to 400 which would be the percentage of the cpu and since mine has 4c/4t i´ve ran with 360, which managed to limit around 90%. Also, i´ve tried using 90 as argument and CPU was limited aroud 20% to 25% of usage, so i think i use it right.

A few days ago I discovered cpulimit. It's a great tool that nicely (haha) complements nice. Where nice is normally used to reduce the amount of CPU a process uses by changing it priority, a niced process can still end up using more CPU than you want, and will of course use all that it wants if nothing with a higher priority comes along.

Thanks for your elaborate notes! This is helpful information.

When I tried your commands, on Arch via libcgroup-git, `cgcreate -g cpu:cpulimit` only results in `cgcreate: can't create cgroup cpulimit: Cgroup, requested group parameter does not exist`, for some reason. But this is not a support ticket, I have not researched this at all yet. But cgroups only limit some processes anyway, never the entire core(s) - so it seems one could also simply use cpulimit [1] instead which emulates by sending SIGSTOP and SIGCONT.

About cooling_deviceN: While this does limit cpu functionality, this seems to only also set `scaling_max_freq` to an appropriate value, throttling because the fans are disabled. Not more useful than setting the frequency manually I presume.

[1] https://github.com/opsengine/cpulimit

A bit different from what you're asking but for this kind of use, I generally use cpulimit (link). It allows you to artificially limit the amount of CPU consumed by a process.

Dunno then. You could try cpulimit, and then do cpulimit -l 5 %command% in launch settings for the game in Steam.