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Increasing performance by enabling high priority automatically

By That1BIGDude

Changing the priority of a program in task manager typically allows better performance. Easy Anti Cheat does not allow you to change the priority of the game, this is how to get around that

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Open Regedit

Navigate to the following

Create a new key

Create a new sub key

Create new DWORD 32bit

what CpuPriorityClass values mean

Verify that it worked

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Introduction

Most people know that if you go into your task manager you can click on details right click a game a change the priority of the game to high. This gives that game priority to system resources which typically increases performance.

So why am I making this guide you may be asking? Well its because easy anti cheat doesn't let you modify that. So this is a guide to have windows automatically change it for you.

Please know that while this typically increases performance its only stop gap and it wont be a cure all solution. This game needs major performance tuning and external changes can only help so much

Open Regedit

Hit the windows button type regedit and hit enter.

Navigate to the following

When Regedit opens you want to navigate to the following path
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options

Create a new key

Once you are at the Image File Execution folder you want to right click the folder and click New > Key a new key will be created and you want to name it "eldenring.exe".

The reason you are naming it that is because you want it to match the game executable in this case its "eldenring.exe" but this process can be done for any other program.

Create a new sub key

Once you have a key called "eldenring.exe" made you want to right click on it and create another key.

Right click "eldenring.exe"> click new>Key name that new key "PerfOptions"

Create new DWORD 32bit

You want to select the newly created "PerfOptions" and right click it and select New> DWORD 32bit and name it "CpuPriorityClass". Once its been created you want to open it and change the value to 3 and make sure Hexadecimal is selected.

what CpuPriorityClass values mean

3 is equal to "High" priority, if you desire to set something else, this is the table:

1 Idle
2 Normal
3 High
4 RealTime (Seriously do not use) It wont let you use RealTime even if you wanted to
5 Below Normal
6 Above Normal.

IMPORTANT: 4 (RealTime) will most likely cause more problems and your shooting yourself in the foot by using it.

Verify that it worked

Everything should be all set. In order to confirm it worked you can start the game then open your task manger go to details right click eldenring.exe click on priority and it should now say high

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jigos 11 Jul @ 11:11pm

@Pride Your Enable.reg key didn't work because the subkeys are specified with forward-slashes instead of backslashes. The working key is the following:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\eldenring.exe]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options/eldenring.exe/PerfOptions ]
"CpuPriorityClass"=dword:00000003

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\EasyAntiCheat_EOS.exe]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options/EasyAntiCheat_EOS.exe/PerfOptions ]
"CpuPriorityClass"=dword:00000005

That1BIGDude [author] 10 Feb @ 9:37pm

It won't let you set it to automatically start in real time priority

ValentDs 7 Feb @ 9:40pm

yes, name of the game and what shows on task manager, time ago worked with special k but now doesn't anymore, sadly your method doesn't work, i need to do manually everytime or use processlasso

That1BIGDude [author] 7 Feb @ 8:33pm

its the name of the exe that shows up in your task manager but yes

ValentDs 7 Feb @ 7:27pm

i did it not for elden ring, but for stranger of paradise, using SOPFFO.exe instead, the rest should work right? doesn't change

That1BIGDude [author] 7 Feb @ 7:08pm

Nothing should of changed unless the exe randomly changed. Maybe try restarting and doing it again

ValentDs 7 Feb @ 3:25am

sadly it doesn't, on task manager still is normal when i open it

ShepardJager 3 Jan @ 6:00pm

This was the fix I was looking for! thx, you're the best!

kevrywhere 1 Sep, 2024 @ 3:33pm

I recommend doing the same process to make EasyAntiCheat run in low priority. Just follow the same steps but then instead of "eldenring.exe", name the folder "EasyAntiCheat_EOS.exe" and make the CpuPriorityClass value "1" which is the lowest priority. Just did this and verified in Task Manager that it worked. Now the game is running better than ever.

If you just go into Task Manager details and set EasyAntiCheat to low priority from there, it gets reset each time you restart your PC. Using RegEdit makes it permanent.

Great guide, thank you!

Katapimbaz 30 Jul, 2024 @ 10:39am

Worked here with another game, The Sims 4. Thank You very much, your guide weas the only one who worked in my windows 11

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