Irrlicht Engine

Give the process a lower priority and you should be able to use another program This will not make the Irrlicht application idle, the OS simply assigns more CPU time to the other applications. What I wanted was to make the Irrlicht application idle when there's no rendering, such as the "User ...

Why do all the Irrlicht applications utilize 100% CPU usage the whole time they're running? The screen buffer also updates constantly, even when there's no rendering at all. Is it possible to fix this?