I don’t know how well a tick would simulate a bad PC… Just because its still your epic pc(just doing more work)…
Also Idk how you would use the tick because the most likely bottleneck would be Memory(either RAM or Graphics)[correct me if i’m wrong please] whereas a tick would just hit the CPU.
The best way to really do it would be to just buy one(probably could get a used for less then £30 on ebay)
Create a simulated PC
For CPU testing
- check out http://www.cpukiller.com/ it slows down your CPU while running(this would be ez)
-BES, Battle Encoder Shirasé 1.7.8 / 1.8.0.25: Controls Per-Process CPU Usage(does the same thing as above ^^)
Otherwise I suppose you could open up your BIOS create a new profile and just turn down your CPU, RAM, and Graphics to 2009 standard
NOTE Some guy elsewhere recommends this:
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Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings\Change Advanced Power Settings, then go to the “Processor” section and set it’s maximum state to 5% (or something else). It works only if your processor supports dynamic multiplier change and ACPI driver is installed correctly.
Run Task Manager and set processor affinity to a single core (or whatever number of cores you want) for your browser’s (or any other’s) process. Not a best practice for browsers, because JavaScript implementations are usually single-threaded, but, as far as I see, modern browsers actually DO use multiple cores.
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