AutoHotkey Community

[Talven81]

Well, I'm not sure if this should go under bug, or feature request... it's a bit of both.

While creating my Dual Analog Gamepad script I noticed something about AutoHotkey. While it works great during standard operating of the system, if you are running a processor intensive program such as a game the response time of AutoHotkey decreases.

This can be fixed in WinXP by manually increasing the priority of AutoHotkey thru task manager which solves the problem, but you may wish to set the processor priority of your software a bit higher for proper usage under these circumstances.

A similar macroing program Xylobot while far behind in capabilities, found that they had to do the same as well.

[Chris]

I've used hotkeys in games that max out the CPU and have not noticed any reduced response times. Also, I just ran the joystick test script and the "joystick as mouse" script while Prime95 was running at high priority and didn't see any obvious reduction in responsiveness.

What are the symptoms you're seeing? Does pressing a joystick button sometimes fail to trigger the hotkey (i.e. that you have to hold it down a little longer than you might like)?

Do me a favor and change your BatchLines to the below and see if that makes any difference:
SetBatchLines, -1 ; -1 is the fastest

Also, perhaps this problem only occurs with a certain game? Perhaps that game is hogging the CPU by setting its threads to above-normal priority? If possible, please try it with another game and let us know the results.

Thanks,
Chris

[Talven81]

What I noticed was the mouselook response time especially seems to be delayed. IE I push right on the joystick, there is a fraction of a second pause, then it looks right.

My JoyThreshold = 1 so I don't think that's the problem.

[Chris]

And you're sure that raising it's priority in task manager fixes the lag? If so, that's pretty interesting.

I think there are quite a few command line utils that can raise the priority of a process. You could use one of them to have the script raise its own priority automatically. Process operations such as setting priority are planned to be built-in soon.

[Rajat]

I've seen that happen too. this is what I use: