CPULight

CPULight

Type: Standalone

Updated: January 27, 2004

Availability: Released

Compatibility

Host Applications: Standalone

Operating Systems: Windows

Architecture: 32-bit

Overview

CPULight is a small tool that lets you check the status of your renders even while your monitor is switched off by flashing the lights on your keyboard.

If, like me, you do a lot of rendering and you want to do something else while the PC is churning out those beautiful images, you’ll probably want to turn off your monitor while you’re gone. I know I do! The trouble is that it’s probably not for the best health of the monitor to constantly turn it on and right back off, just to check whether the rendering has finally completed.

Usage

CPULight constantly monitors the CPU usage and turns on the scroll lock light on your keyboard once the usage has reached a certain low threshold and hence rendering has completed.

Note that if you have processes using too much CPU power other than the renderer, CPULight will not be able to detect that rendering has completed! Then again, why would you have anything but the renderer running, anyway?