I just bought CMO, moving up from Harpoon Classic 97. I installed it, and my computer fans run hot even without a scenario loaded.

What would be the best way to set up CMO to reduce the load on my computer? I don't care about graphics or video speed, etc. I would rather have the hardware just handle the background tasks. And if I need to minimize those as well, then so be it. I will be upgrading my computer in the next few months, but I want to get started before that.

Thanks for your input, and looking forward to this new endeavour.

The game is implemented in such a way that it will pretty much max out one core of your CPU even when the game clock itself is not ticking. That's just a tight game loop that too my knowledge cannot be relaxed without the developers making a code change. The game also by default maxes out my GPU (where my fan noise originates.

The minor difference I was able to achieve was using the Nvidia app (I have an NVidia GPU) to limit the Command.exe FPS to 30 and I turned on Vertical Sync. That brought my game idle GPU usage down from 97%+ to 83-93%.

If you find a better solution, please let us know.