Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Find out what your PC is capable of with HeavyLoad
by Brad Linder Jul 7th 2008 at 12:30PM
HeavyLoad doesn't provide detailed results. The test is more of a pass/fail kind of thing. You can run it for as long as you'd like. If your PC or the application doesn't crash, then it means your PC can hold up to a reasonable amount of stress.
Because HeavyLoad is likely to fragment your memory and swap files, you should reboot your computer after you're done using the program. And if the program terminates unexpectedly you may have a huge test file left in your temp directory.
[via gHacks]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Lee Mathews said 2:38PM on 7-07-2008
Also lets you stress ram and cpu separately, which can be useful to pinpoint a system's weak spot!
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James said 2:39PM on 7-07-2008
I don't suppose it tells you how to *fix* it if it fails, does it?
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Stuart Halliday said 3:34PM on 7-07-2008
No, running the .dmp file in the free Microsoft tool 'debugging for windows' does that.
Stuart Halliday said 3:41PM on 7-07-2008
Ahh being using this app for years. Nice to discover its finally gone multi-core.
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