cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6862577

This doesn’t do anything particularly revolutionary, but it does give you a nice GUI with the ability to assign hotkeys to suspend/resume.

Useful if you want console-like game suspend to quick-switch between games, or if you’re just trying to save on the electricity bill.

EDIT to add: suspended apps stay in RAM/VRAM, so be aware of your specs/game requirements if you’re trying to achieve console-like “game switching”. Also, could be incredibly useful for mobile gamers to save on battery/cool down the device a bit while not playing for a minute or two.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    I recently found out that a game I played froze when my pc went into auto suspend. Does this help with it too? Thanks for making this.

    • @clanginatorOP
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      91 year ago

      I maybe wasn’t clear, I didn’t make this, I just found it and figured folks here could benefit from knowing about it!

      But no clue if it’ll help with that, worth a shot tho.

    • @ogeist
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      91 year ago

      According to the FAQ it doesn’t help for your case. But they suggest another too. Maybe give that a look.

    • Dyskolos
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      31 year ago

      No, it won’t help. It just suspends a task and going into sleep then won’t help. Maybe disable suspend and change to hibernation. This would work. You most likely would need to enable it first:

      Powercfg /h on

      On a commandline.

      You can try out easily with e. G. Procexp from sysinternals (a great Taskmanager-replacement too!). You can just suspend your game and try it.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Thanks for the tipp! Currently, I have a bit of a problem with hibernation. My proprietary gpu driver sends me to blackscreen and forces me to hard reboot. So that I might need to fix first. :)

  • @Moneo
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    1 year ago

    Thank you for edit OP. I was wondering if this would be a good solution to trying to play 3 mins of Dark Souls while waiting for my rocket league teammates to join up. If I run two games at once my PC usually freaks the fuck out.

    (still a cool app, thanks for the link)

    Also I just noticed this is a crosspost, oops.

  • Anduin1357
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    21 year ago

    Is this any different from Windows suspend/resume? The feature built into task manager seems to free up RAM on the system.

  • @uis
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    21 year ago

    At some point I thought about CRIU

    • @clanginatorOP
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      21 year ago

      Nice! If I wasn’t using the custom hotkey I’d jump to this for sake of keeping things lightweight. Thanks for sharing.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        It has a global hotkey, but it’s hardcoded to the pause button (Fn+P on most keyboards that lack a pause button).