John McDonald Valve employee: “There is a great reason to close most other than programs: Many other apps stealth use the GPU—so they can cause your game to feel wrong by causing inconsistent frame times. Even though CSGO usually isn’t gpu limited!”

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  • lmao. but i use vibrantlinux and crossover without needing to add the -allow_third_party_software launch flag.

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  • By the way, the utility to check for processes being used by an Nvidia GPU is called nvidia-smi.exe, which luckily can output XML so its no biggy to parse. Here's a Powershell script which returns the processes being used by the GPU.

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  • I've heard of spotify tui, which seems to have a ton more features (acting like an alternative spotify client, rather than just a daemon). There are Windows binaries provided from the github directly.

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