Create a new user for high-CPU-usage apps

Sep 17, '04 09:48:00AM

Contributed by: Dale Mox

In order to have a better experience with high-processor using applications (specifically shoot-them-up games) I decided to create an account for that game. For me, that game was Quake, and there were several items I needed to be different:

  1. 800x600 resolution
  2. Thousands of colours, not Millions
  3. "Ignore trackpad when mouse is present" enabled, so I don't enable the drag lock while with a gun in my hand.
So I created another user, took the Quake icon .icns file and dropped it as the user image, temporarily set it to administrator, set up all the options, gave it a simple Finder + Quake + Trash dock, and then set it to standard user.

Easy, and about a 30% to 40% gain in FPS (frames per second).

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