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Got a solution to my kbhit() hogging the Win2K CPU problem from the powersoft.public.watcom_c_c++.general newsgroup. It involves setting up a real-mode interrupt under DOS4GW, then calling 0x2F with...

I tried this, but it didn't help. Mebbe because I'm using an old Watcom compiler (32-bit extended DOS)? And Watcom's sleep() takes seconds in place of millisecs.

Anybody got a keyboard polling loop that doesn't hog the Win2000 CPU?

I've been using while(!kbhit()) for years under DOS, Win9x and even OS/2's VDM. But Win2k's VDM pegs CPU usage at 100%.