AW: [Papyrus-L] Papyrus and Win2000

[Dave Goldman, Research Software Design]

Rene Hessling wrote:
>...With the sensitivity set to high everything works out OK with background
>applications.... but.... (and I apologize for my continuous nagging...) If
>no other application is using the CPU power then Papyrus (or rather
>NTVDM.EXE) still takes ALL available CPU power (I wonder what Papyrus is
>working on the whole time....).

I think that it is "polling" the mouse and keyboard, constantly checking to
see if the user has clicked or pressed or moused.


>Now on a desktop PC this is really no big problem, but I'm working on a
>laptop and when the CPU and fan is chugging away it really kills the
>batteries.

I see your problem. Hmm... No, unfortunately, I can't think of any way to
eliminate this behavior.


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