Speed Freak for Mac

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Key Details of Speed Freak

accelerates performance of frontmost application
Last updated on June 29, 2015
There have been 6 updates
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Developer’s Description

By Big, Fat, Stinking Software

accelerates performance of frontmost application

Speed Freak, at a user-specified interval, reprioritizes applications so that the frontmost (or active) application gets more processor time than background applications. By default in Mac OS X, all processes have equal priority. By using Speed Freak, you override this default by increasing the priority of whatever application you are currently using, resulting in faster application performance. Speed Freak accomplishes this through the Unix "renice" command.

Speed Freak does not affect graphics card performance and will show little to no increase in 3D games. Although Speed Freak does not affect network performance, the increased CPU priority it offers should increase performance in internet applications. For example, web pages with complicated HTML should render faster but download speed will not change.

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GENERAL

Release: July 8, 2007

Latest update: June 29, 2015

Version: 2.8

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Mac

Operating System

Mac OS X
Mac OS X 10.4

Additional Requirements: Tested with Mac OS X 10.4.10

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Total Downloads: 1,276

Downloads Last Week: 0

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4.6/5

8 User Votes

works by crashes computer
deezakJune 13, 2006
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />been using this for about 2 weeks. on 10.3.9 G4 1.67 ghz 1.5 gig ram. Did notice an improved after effects render and preview time but has crashed my computer 3 times. I would get a spinning beach ball then a force restart of my OS, quit all my open apps losing all my info. After the beach ball I would get a garbled screen and the gray spinning gear, and then the blue screen and my desktop would re-appear as if I just started the machine. and no I did not get the start up bong... the screen did not go black. that has only happened with speed freak so it worries me to much and I can't afford to loose the work (and yes I save regularly) and take the time to wait for the restart. Ran disk until, and disk warrior, hd and os seem fine...so I am jumping ship till it is fixed.
well it does work....
rj89May 10, 2005
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />but when i'm home on surfing that new thing you may have heard of it its called the internet. anyways when i usually have speedfreak open along with firefox and itunes. itunes drags when i have them both open (stutters if you will) I dont like that is their anyway to stop that?.( i assume in the ignored list but then firefox wont go a little faster or itunes wont go faster) on to the goods it works great though i could see it does in activity monitor. any suggestions on a remedy.
Zoooom
DuckhueOctober 24, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Now that's what I'm talking about. It really does work, and nothing bad happened so far. Powermac B/W G3 with a G4 550 XLR8 G4 Processor, OS 10.3.5. Safari seems about the same, but All Adobe stuff, MS Word, Camino, Gyazmail, Appleworks are all blazing. Now to go try the rest of my apps.
Yes!
Richarda1--2008October 24, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />The next best thing to sliced bread
Amazing
KennyMcKormickSeptember 25, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Although I have been using it for like.... 2 minutes, I have to say, kudos to you! Opera runs faster now, and I mean FAST.
Good, but not good enough
richl59August 29, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Like others I'd like to tell Speed Freak which apps to give the CPU power too. For example, if I'm rendering a Final Cut prroject and then go to surf the net I'd like SF to give more CPU to FC since it needs it and the browser doesnt.
Workin' like a charm.
freefrogJuly 2, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This new version is awesome since it works automatically now if you set it as a login item. Cool bean! Good freeware.
Password problem
John SawyerMay 17, 2004
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This looks and works well. I have only one complaint: its window has a field for your admin password, instead of asking for it in a standard dialog with an "OK" button as most other apps do. I don't use a password for OS X since it's a pain to enter one every time OS X asks for it--I just click a password-asking dialog's "OK" button--so when I click on Speed Freak's "Activate acceleration" button, it says it can't activate because I haven't entered an admin password into its non-standard password field. This should either be made into a standard dialog with an OK button, or it should be modified so it will accept no entry in this field.