Using PSSUSPEND to pause F@H clients? - Overclock.net

cyclometric · 3 Weeks Ago

I was mucking around the other day in my Sysinternals folder and came upon pssuspend, a simple exe to "suspend and resume processes". It seemed to work fine for me when I entered the following command:

Code:

d:\SysITools\pssuspend.exe FAH623GPU.exe

and it seemed to restart just fine when I entered the resume command:

Code:

d:\SysITools\pssuspend.exe -r FAH623GPU.exe

I haven't yet tried it on my notfred's SMP client running in VMPlayer, but if it works, pssuspend seems like it could be a very easy and very scriptable way to release GPU or CPU resources (i.e. before starting a gaming session), and still being able to start folding again (after gaming or whatever) very easily and quickly.

I wonder if anyone has tried this and if there are any drawbacks or problems with this method, or if I came upon a good thing?

Thanks,

xxbassplayerxx · 3 Weeks Ago

Do you think you'd be able to configure it to automatically pause folding upon opening the game via a script attached to the shortcut or something along those lines?

Because that would be magical.

MAD_J · 3 Weeks Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by xxbassplayerxx

Do you think you'd be able to configure it to automatically pause folding upon opening the game via a script attached to the shortcut or something along those lines?

Because that would be magical.

Some one already has made a script to close/open folding automatically for gaming. But suspending it might be faster then closing/opening it.

cyclometric · 3 Weeks Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by xxbassplayerxx

Do you think you'd be able to configure it to automatically pause folding upon opening the game via a script attached to the shortcut or something along those lines?.

That's what I was thinking. I'll experiment with it a bit. I have just started folding on both of my GPUs, so I want to wait til they each finish their WUs so I'm sure not to waste any of that effort, then I'll give it a shot.

Quote:

Originally Posted by MAD_J

Some one already has made a script to close/open folding automatically for gaming. But suspending it might be faster then closing/opening it.

Yeah, I was going to examine that project, because I have noticed that by suspending, GPU & CPU cycles are immediately freed up... I just want to do some testing for any issues this might cause. I'll be playing with it later today & will update the post.

MadCatMk2 · 3 Weeks Ago

It's in my sig. I'm planning to make it a lot more user friendly and automated when I find some time.

Edit: You could use my method with psususpend if you wish as well as with non-service clients

cyclometric · 2 Weeks Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadCatMk2

It's in my sig. I'm planning to make it a lot more user friendly and automated when I find some time.

Edit: You could use my method with psususpend if you wish as well as with non-service clients

In fact, I did just that, and this script works beautifully on my two console GPU clients, stopping all folding activity without actually shutting down the client, and it starts up immediately upon exiting the game. Thanks !!

Code:

@echo off
pssuspend FahCore_11.exe
C:
cd <path to folder containing your games in dbl quotes>
start /wait <name of executable, dbl quotes if space>
pssuspend -r FahCore_11.exe

and here is a sample script:

Code:

@echo off
pssuspend FahCore_11.exe
C:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Telltale Games\CSI - Deadly Intent"
start /wait CSI5.exe
pssuspend -r FahCore_11.exe

One thing that's nice about PSSUSPEND is that a single call will suspend all running instances of the process with the name specified, so once call suspends both of my GPU console clients.

BTW, I tried to use a similar script on my VMWare Player client, running the Notfred's SMP client, against the "vmware-vmx.exe" process to release resources and it seemed to work fine, both suspending and resuming! Here's an example of that script, which comes in handy when I want to encode video or run any other CPU intensive task:

Code:

@echo off
pssuspend vmware-vmx.exe
C:
cd "c:\users\will\runapps\VirtualDub 1.97"
start /wait VirtualDub.exe
pssuspend -r vmware-vmx.exe

Enjoy!!

MadCatMk2 · 2 Weeks Ago

My only concern with vmware is what happens to time in the machine and what PPD your monitoring client will show.
Really nice find though

cyclometric · 2 Weeks Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadCatMk2

My only concern with vmware is what happens to time in the machine and what PPD your monitoring client will show.
Really nice find though

True, with VMWare, to be on the safe side, it's probably best to just shut down the virtual machine. I think as a test, though, I'll restart my instance of SMP with 'oneunit' and when it has finished this one, and started a new one, I'll test it when I'm at 1 or 2%, so in case it fails while being paused for an hour or more, I won't lose much work.

Should I do anything with this script, like post a new thread? It's the first time I've come up with something that could be of use to others on the site.

& thx for the rep!

MadCatMk2 · 2 Weeks Ago

My idea for the pausing/resuming scripts was to make it really easy to create shortcuts. Not everyone is willing to start making .bat files for all their games / programs.
Let's not forget support for services.
I had a couple of things in mind about how to make it but I've been busy with school and setting up servers.. but this shouldn't take a long time to do. I'll try to find some time.

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