Project Mercury Changelog

What's new in Project Mercury 1.2.9.0 Beta

Oct 9, 2017
  • Implemented reduce I/O priority on minimize
  • Fixed a small affinity math error for many cores (>16)
  • Made WinReactFast a bit more conservative
  • Currently I am working on some improvements to WinReactFast as well as some possible CPU usage optimizations

New in Project Mercury 1.2.8.0 (Apr 10, 2017)

  • Implemented AutoSMT (beta)
  • Implemented “NO CCX Switching” feature for Ryzen™ processors
  • Temporarily Fixed Affinity inherit issue
  • “Disable CoreParking” is now on as default
  • “Windows FastReact” is now on as default
  • Default icon click action is now “Settings” instead of “Pause”
  • Optimized some IF settings for minuscule reduced CPU usage
  • Optimized exit procedure for faster exit
  • Changed prev Core Parking fix to not use temp file

New in Project Mercury 1.2.7.3 (Apr 2, 2017)

  • Fixed "Disable Core Parking" not restoring previous core parking settings
  • Renamed "No Hyper-Threading conflicts" to "No SMT conflicts"
  • Reduced CPU usage for "Multicore optimizations" features
  • Balloon tip now shows what the increased CPU priority is
  • Fixed a bug where priority would not be restored when minimizing programs

New in Project Mercury 1.2.7.2 (Mar 16, 2017)

  • Changed Donations nag to be less obstructive
  • Changed Donations Link

New in Project Mercury 1.2.7.1 (Dec 19, 2016)

  • Fixed pause icon error in 32bit version
  • Fixed Typo Recieved to Received in balloon tip
  • Unified punctuation in history tab

New in Project Mercury 1.2.7.0 (Nov 4, 2016)

  • Implemented “Excessive mode”.
  • Fixed typo “Implanted” to “Implemented”.

New in Project Mercury 1.2.6.0 (Sep 19, 2016)

  • Implanted "Disable Core Parking" tweak
  • Implanted "Start as Administator"
  • Unified internal settings code
  • Improved .ini layout for clarity

New in Project Mercury 1.2.5.1 (Sep 19, 2016)

  • Donations are now available in the settings menu.
  • Reduce CPU priority on minimize now optional.
  • Info expanded with a bit of feature documentation.
  • Removed textbox bug when selecting Game profile for CPU slice.
  • Fixed CPU priority box resetting to "AboveNormal"
  • Improved handling of "Save settings"

New in Project Mercury 1.2.5.0 (Sep 19, 2016)

  • Implanted adjustment of system timer interval feature.
  • Implanted "Reduce memory usage on minimize" feature.
  • Original affinity is now restored instead of full affinity.
  • Improved "Clear Memory" speed by 5%.
  • Optimized some IF settings for minuscule reduced CPU usage.
  • Moved CPU slice settings into the new settings GUI.
  • Minor changes to the settings GUI layout.

New in Project Mercury 1.2.4.0 (May 20, 2016)

  • New Settings GUI
  • Increased CPU priorty level can now be adjusted and saved
  • Fixed typo Ballon to Balloon

New in Project Mercury 1.2.3.1 (Mar 21, 2016)

  • Fixed "Windows FastReact" & "No Standby on CPU load" autostart bug.

New in Project Mercury 1.2.3.0 (Mar 14, 2016)

  • Windows FastReact settings are now saved when choosing save
  • settings
  • Implanted "No Standby on CPU load" feature
  • InfoBox now has a link to http://www.Techcenter.dk

New in Project Mercury 1.2.2.0 (Mar 7, 2016)

  • Clear Memory now works intelligently, greatly increasing its speed
  • Project Mercury's own page out routine improved to double speed
  • Optimized some IF settings for minuscule reduced CPU usage
  • Removed nonworking priority settings menu (was leftover from experiment)
  • Implanted "Windows FastReact" features that speeds up windows
  • Implanted "Save Settings" feature

New in Project Mercury 1.2.0.1 (Mar 1, 2016)

  • Fixed Windows 7 incompatabiltiy with new Windows hook
  • Fixed to high CPU usage when Paused
  • Slight improvement in paging (Pages out at Pause)

New in Project Mercury 1.2.0.0 (Feb 23, 2016)

  • Restructured monitoring loop to be based on Windows hook
  • Greatly reducing CPU usage
  • Autoslice function temporarily removed due to incompatibility with the new structure

New in Project Mercury 1.0.5.0 (Jan 26, 2016)

  • Balloon message now works properly under Windows 10
  • Corrected "received boosted priority" to "received increased priority"
  • Increased PID range of Clear Memory feature