Locked out of Task Manager Priority

[Berethain]

Some reason SE5 is defaulted to low task priority, and I am denied permission to change it to anything else. I am the only administrator, I have run task manager AS administrator, I have gone to properties for SE5 security and added a line specific to my user for full control access, I have gone to the User Access Control and turned it off completely. I booted in safe mode and had no issues.

This thread went way off the rails. Mods won't close it. Short answer is that EAC disallows you from changing task priority and mine and a few other users had it set to low by EAC. People are saying it doesn't make a difference at all, and I don't know if it should realistically. However something with SE5 or EAC was causing very low resource usage and very abnormally high temps on my CPU and GPU. This thread died over a month ago and it got revived for some hackjob to troll me about tweaking my registry files.

[draeath]

Easy Anti-Cheat decided you don't get those rights. Even if you apply them, they get taken away at runtime.

[Berethain]

Originally posted by draeath:

Easy Anti-Cheat decided you don't get those rights. Even if you apply them, they get taken away at runtime.

And Yet, I decided to apply insane amounts of heat to my 3080 TI to play the first mission anyways, because I figured it was an EAC issue I couldn't do anything about.

The first mission, I got my first invasion. Oh good, this should be fun, I thought. A literal five seconds after the invasion notification I was dead, killed by a melee animation, in a field. EAC is already beaten by hackers and multiplayer is unplayable. Its integration into the campaign makes the campaign unplayable. Either get rid of EAC so it doesn't commandeer my computer and we can deal with cheaters that are in the game anyways, OR make EAC work. Don't force us to bow down to EAC when it does nothing.

I've never had this issue even with other games that have EAC and other third party software. This is ridiculous.

[king poogie]

Originally posted by Berethain:

Some reason SE5 is defaulted to low task priority, and I am denied permission to change it to anything else. I am the only administrator, I have run task manager AS administrator, I have gone to properties for SE5 security and added a line specific to my user for full control access, I have gone to the User Access Control and turned it off completely. I booted in safe mode and had no issues.

Can someone help me update this game in TM so my GPU doesn't explode?

Have you found a solution to this?

[Berethain]

Originally posted by king poogie:

Originally posted by Berethain:

Some reason SE5 is defaulted to low task priority, and I am denied permission to change it to anything else. I am the only administrator, I have run task manager AS administrator, I have gone to properties for SE5 security and added a line specific to my user for full control access, I have gone to the User Access Control and turned it off completely. I booted in safe mode and had no issues.

Can someone help me update this game in TM so my GPU doesn't explode?

Have you found a solution to this?

Solution was refund. Couldn't find anything. Most promising answer was uninstall and reinstall. But I was already refunded and done before I considered that.

[king poogie]

Originally posted by Berethain:

Originally posted by king poogie:

Have you found a solution to this?

Solution was refund. Couldn't find anything. Most promising answer was uninstall and reinstall. But I was already refunded and done before I considered that.

Just in case there are others that come across the thread: there is an option in the launcher to disable Easy Anti-Cheat. Click on the gear icon to find it. Disabling EAC let me turn up the priority for SE5 in task manager, and I was still able to join multiplayer games...

[Berethain]

Originally posted by king poogie:

Originally posted by Berethain:

Solution was refund. Couldn't find anything. Most promising answer was uninstall and reinstall. But I was already refunded and done before I considered that.

Just in case there are others that come across the thread: there is an option in the launcher to disable Easy Anti-Cheat. Click on the gear icon to find it. Disabling EAC let me turn up the priority for SE5 in task manager, and I was still able to join multiplayer games...

The option would not work. Once EAC was installed it refused to launch without it. I tried several times toggling and relaunching, I filed a bug report with Rebellion. If I unchecked EAC it would try to launch then crash, then repeat in a loop.

[MysticalPotato]

Originally posted by Berethain:

Some reason SE5 is defaulted to low task priority, and I am denied permission to change it to anything else. I am the only administrator, I have run task manager AS administrator, I have gone to properties for SE5 security and added a line specific to my user for full control access, I have gone to the User Access Control and turned it off completely. I booted in safe mode and had no issues.

Can someone help me update this game in TM so my GPU doesn't explode?

That's normal with EAC. You can still do it via registry (requires some googling)

[MysticalPotato]

Originally posted by Berethain:

Originally posted by king poogie:

Have you found a solution to this?

Solution was refund. Couldn't find anything. Most promising answer was uninstall and reinstall. But I was already refunded and done before I considered that.

Lame. You didn't look very hard. Very easy to do it, not that it's really important anyway and wouldn't net you any performance gain in the end.

"so my GPU doesn't explode" yah, it's clear you don't really understand how this stuff works, oh well.

FYI it does not run in low priority, it runs in normal priority, which is, normal.

[Berethain]

Originally posted by MysticalPotato:

Originally posted by Berethain:

Solution was refund. Couldn't find anything. Most promising answer was uninstall and reinstall. But I was already refunded and done before I considered that.

Lame. You didn't look very hard. Very easy to do it, not that it's really important anyway and wouldn't net you any performance gain in the end.

"so my GPU doesn't explode" yah, it's clear you don't really understand how this stuff works, oh well.

FYI it does not run in low priority, it runs in normal priority, which is, normal.

I'd rather not screw with my registry to make EAC screw off. "GPU Explodes" = hyperbole/scarcasm. Roasting it at 90C is not my ideal way to run my GPU. And no. It was low priority. Low. Take your condescending self elsewhere.

If that was not what was causing excessive GPU heat then idk wtf is wrong with SE5. I have a water cooled 3080 TI setup. SE5 can jump in a lake.

[MysticalPotato]

Originally posted by Berethain:

Originally posted by MysticalPotato:

Lame. You didn't look very hard. Very easy to do it, not that it's really important anyway and wouldn't net you any performance gain in the end.

"so my GPU doesn't explode" yah, it's clear you don't really understand how this stuff works, oh well.

FYI it does not run in low priority, it runs in normal priority, which is, normal.

I'd rather not screw with my registry to make EAC screw off. "GPU Explodes" = hyperbole/scarcasm. Roasting it at 90C is not my ideal way to run my GPU. And no. It was low priority. Low. Take your condescending self elsewhere.

If that was not what was causing excessive GPU heat then idk wtf is wrong with SE5. I have a water cooled 3080 TI setup. SE5 can jump in a lake.

Then don't complain. There's no reason to change the priority anyway and if you don't know how to make registry tweaks then PCs are not for you. Or just use em and dont complain when someone tells you how to do something. And no, it is not low priority. Fact.

Take YOUR condescending, unintelligent, knowledge lacking crap elsewhere. Learn to tweak your rig. Learn to limit your GPU temp. Don't know how? LEARN.

Changing CPU priority will in no shape or form lower your GPU temps, which are probably due to crappy cable management, poor airflow and so on.

[Berethain]

Originally posted by MysticalPotato:

Originally posted by Berethain:

I'd rather not screw with my registry to make EAC screw off. "GPU Explodes" = hyperbole/scarcasm. Roasting it at 90C is not my ideal way to run my GPU. And no. It was low priority. Low. Take your condescending self elsewhere.

If that was not what was causing excessive GPU heat then idk wtf is wrong with SE5. I have a water cooled 3080 TI setup. SE5 can jump in a lake.

Then don't complain. There's no reason to change the priority anyway and if you don't know how to make registry tweaks then PCs are not for you. Or just use em and dont complain when someone tells you how to do something. And no, it is not low priority. Fact.

Take YOUR condescending, unintelligent, knowledge lacking crap elsewhere. Learn to tweak your rig. Learn to limit your GPU temp. Don't know how? LEARN.

Changing CPU priority will in no shape or form lower your GPU temps, which are probably due to crappy cable management, poor airflow and so on.

It was a low priority. Period. I don't know what else to tell you other than you clearly don't know what you are talking about. My GPU temps run at around 35-40C under most normal loads and around 55 C under a heavy load. This was the first time I've been locked out of task manager by a program, ever. If it isn't what caused these issues, then something else with SE5 is clearly broken, because even extremely poorly optimized games will not do this.

Ridiculous you are behaving this way because I refunded a non-functional game. It was literally non-functional without EAC. It was locking me out of task manager. It was forcing program settings. Period. Then on top of all that, the online portion of the game was broken.

I am thinking you're one of the snake oil sellers who purport registry tweaks as a safe and easy method for getting more performance out of your PC. Could I do it? Yeah. Is it worth the time and risk? Definitely not. I DID look at disabling EAC through registry tweaks while I was originally troubleshooting and it was a pain in the rear. So since the gameplay also sucked/was broken I decided to heck with it and refunded. Expecting a user to do registry tweaks to get around EAC because EAC is disabling their computer is asinine and you know it.

I am almost tempted to purchase it again just to throw a screenshot in your condescending face.

[MysticalPotato]

Originally posted by Berethain:

Originally posted by MysticalPotato:

Then don't complain. There's no reason to change the priority anyway and if you don't know how to make registry tweaks then PCs are not for you. Or just use em and dont complain when someone tells you how to do something. And no, it is not low priority. Fact.

Take YOUR condescending, unintelligent, knowledge lacking crap elsewhere. Learn to tweak your rig. Learn to limit your GPU temp. Don't know how? LEARN.

Changing CPU priority will in no shape or form lower your GPU temps, which are probably due to crappy cable management, poor airflow and so on.

It was a low priority. Period. I don't know what else to tell you other than you clearly don't know what you are talking about. My GPU temps run at around 35-40C under most normal loads and around 55 C under a heavy load. This was the first time I've been locked out of task manager by a program, ever. If it isn't what caused these issues, then something else with SE5 is clearly broken, because even extremely poorly optimized games will not do this.

Ridiculous you are behaving this way because I refunded a non-functional game. It was literally non-functional without EAC. It was locking me out of task manager. It was forcing program settings. Period. Then on top of all that, the online portion of the game was broken.

I am thinking you're one of the snake oil sellers who purport registry tweaks as a safe and easy method for getting more performance out of your PC. Could I do it? Yeah. Is it worth the time and risk? Definitely not. I DID look at disabling EAC through registry tweaks while I was originally troubleshooting and it was a pain in the rear. So since the gameplay also sucked/was broken I decided to heck with it and refunded. Expecting a user to do registry tweaks to get around EAC because EAC is disabling their computer is asinine and you know it.

I am almost tempted to purchase it again just to throw a screenshot in your condescending face.

I do know what I am talking about. I checked. The game runs in normal CPU priority and you have no clue what you're talking about. EAC does not disable your computer. Is it annoying? Sure, but it's not the end of the world.

You're the one with the problem, nothing you say has any bearing on the game. CPU priority does not net you any performance gains, nor would it stop your GPU from overheating, that's an issue with cooling, air flow in case etc.

You talk about condescending, you need to read back your own comments. I've been doing this a very long time, longer than you've been alive no doubt. If registry tweaks scare you, then I don't know what to tell you, but you're clearly not very experienced with tweaking. Should you have to? No perhaps not, but the fact is, that's the nature of PCs and gaming.

[Berethain]

Originally posted by MysticalPotato:

Originally posted by Berethain:

It was a low priority. Period. I don't know what else to tell you other than you clearly don't know what you are talking about. My GPU temps run at around 35-40C under most normal loads and around 55 C under a heavy load. This was the first time I've been locked out of task manager by a program, ever. If it isn't what caused these issues, then something else with SE5 is clearly broken, because even extremely poorly optimized games will not do this.

Ridiculous you are behaving this way because I refunded a non-functional game. It was literally non-functional without EAC. It was locking me out of task manager. It was forcing program settings. Period. Then on top of all that, the online portion of the game was broken.

I am thinking you're one of the snake oil sellers who purport registry tweaks as a safe and easy method for getting more performance out of your PC. Could I do it? Yeah. Is it worth the time and risk? Definitely not. I DID look at disabling EAC through registry tweaks while I was originally troubleshooting and it was a pain in the rear. So since the gameplay also sucked/was broken I decided to heck with it and refunded. Expecting a user to do registry tweaks to get around EAC because EAC is disabling their computer is asinine and you know it.

I am almost tempted to purchase it again just to throw a screenshot in your condescending face.

I do know what I am talking about. I checked. The game runs in normal CPU priority and you have no clue what you're talking about. EAC does not disable your computer. Is it annoying? Sure, but it's not the end of the world.

You're the one with the problem, nothing you say has any bearing on the game. CPU priority does not net you any performance gains, nor would it stop your GPU from overheating, that's an issue with cooling, air flow in case etc.

You talk about condescending, you need to read back your own comments. I've been doing this a very long time, longer than you've been alive no doubt. If registry tweaks scare you, then I don't know what to tell you, but you're clearly not very experienced with tweaking. Should you have to? No perhaps not, but the fact is, that's the nature of PCs and gaming.

Mate, I think you're tweaking. Holy hell lol. You're totally off your nut. You can "check" whatever the hell you want. Doesn't change the fact that EAC was messing with task manager, locked it, and YES it was on low. (You think I am lying or what?) Like I said before, 3 times, even IF that wasn't the cause, the game was still unplayable without EAC because of the launch-crash issue, and it was otherwise causing insane heat. I don't get how you can insist it's a cable or airflow issue if every other game I play runs fine. Get your head outta your rear.

I can't definitively say that the priority would be the cause, but it's the only extraordinarily odd thing that stood out. I have NEVER had that happen before. Locked or locked on low. I was only even in task manager trying to figure out GPU load and what might be causing the heat. I understand that you don't get magical performance gains just for increasing priority, but if it's trying to run every other windows process to completion before using processing power for a high load game on low priority I could see it causing the problem where it might've been allocating the majority to background windows processes.

Side note, the age comments are priceless. Classic "settle down young'un". It's pathetic. I was not condescending in any form until you came in here berating me, and I told you to chill. I have been far MORE than reasonable and patient with you. If you're done trolling, get lost. Nothing at all you've said has been remotely constructive, nor I suspect intended to BE constructive. For some odd reason you took it as a personal slight that I had issues with the game. There are very few games in almost 30 years of gaming that have caused me this much headache. Totally Banjaxed on install dude.

[MysticalPotato]

Originally posted by Berethain:

Originally posted by MysticalPotato:

I do know what I am talking about. I checked. The game runs in normal CPU priority and you have no clue what you're talking about. EAC does not disable your computer. Is it annoying? Sure, but it's not the end of the world.

You're the one with the problem, nothing you say has any bearing on the game. CPU priority does not net you any performance gains, nor would it stop your GPU from overheating, that's an issue with cooling, air flow in case etc.

You talk about condescending, you need to read back your own comments. I've been doing this a very long time, longer than you've been alive no doubt. If registry tweaks scare you, then I don't know what to tell you, but you're clearly not very experienced with tweaking. Should you have to? No perhaps not, but the fact is, that's the nature of PCs and gaming.

Mate, I think you're tweaking. Holy hell lol. You're totally off your nut. You can "check" whatever the hell you want. Doesn't change the fact that EAC was messing with task manager, locked it, and YES it was on low. (You think I am lying or what?) Like I said before, 3 times, even IF that wasn't the cause, the game was still unplayable without EAC because of the launch-crash issue, and it was otherwise causing insane heat. I don't get how you can insist it's a cable or airflow issue if every other game I play runs fine. Get your head outta your rear.

I can't definitively say that the priority would be the cause, but it's the only extraordinarily odd thing that stood out. I have NEVER had that happen before. Locked or locked on low. I was only even in task manager trying to figure out GPU load and what might be causing the heat. I understand that you don't get magical performance gains just for increasing priority, but if it's trying to run every other windows process to completion before using processing power for a high load game on low priority I could see it causing the problem where it might've been allocating the majority to background windows processes.

Side note, the age comments are priceless. Classic "settle down young'un". It's pathetic. I was not condescending in any form until you came in here berating me, and I told you to chill. I have been far MORE than reasonable and patient with you. If you're done trolling, get lost. Nothing at all you've said has been remotely constructive, nor I suspect intended to BE constructive. For some odd reason you took it as a personal slight that I had issues with the game. There are very few games in almost 30 years of gaming that have caused me this much headache. Totally Banjaxed on install dude.

You're the one off his nut. But keep on going. You're utterly devoid of any sense or knowledge, clearly.

EAC does indeed prevent you from changing process priority.

EAC does not "mess with taks manager"

EAC has no influence on the priority of a task. Unless YOU set the EAC priority to low. In which case the game would also run low priority. IF you managed to somehow do that.

Sniper Elite runs at normal priority in both Vulkan and DX12. So if it ran on low priority, it's very very strange and something on YOUR pc.

You were nasty from the start. Your own issues with what you've read are your own and using your internal voice to interpret text, with anger and emotion, instead of logic.

I know of many games that have caused issues, this is not one of them. Runs at 90Fps on a 1070Ti, 8600k on max settings. Clearly a pretty well optimised game.

You still have yet to explain why you think you need to change priority to high. A clean install would show you the game runs on normal priority. If it didn't you can be sure you wouldn't be the only one complaining about this. But guess what? You are. The ONLY ONE.

That tells me it's your PC. Something you've done, or something that's borked beyond belief.

30yrs of gaming? Well, sounds kinda weird that registry tweaks scare you, so I imagine you've not learned much in 30yrs. That's ok. It's ok to be a slow learner and unintelligent. It's also ok to be obtuse if you so choose. But don't expect others to be ok with it.

30yrs, and only 11 on steam. Would love to hear that story.

30 yrs gaming. Doesn't know how to temp limit his GPU. Doesn't understand CPU priority has nothing to do with GPU temps. Doesn't understand what airflow is. Temp/power limit, and I guess you probably don't have a clue how to undervolt your GPU to get lower temps with the same peformance either.

Tweaking? Alluding to drugs? Sorry mate, don't do drugs. But I do tweak my pc. Unlike you. I know how to through years of learning. Some registry tweaks I do automatically on a clean Windows install. You? Nah. You probably don't even shut down services you don't need. No wonder you have issues with a well optimised game. I would hate to see your PC build. I imagine it looks pretty nasty. Welp, you enjoy those high temps hey!

Cheers ;)

[king poogie]

Originally posted by MysticalPotato:

Originally posted by Berethain:

Some reason SE5 is defaulted to low task priority, and I am denied permission to change it to anything else. I am the only administrator, I have run task manager AS administrator, I have gone to properties for SE5 security and added a line specific to my user for full control access, I have gone to the User Access Control and turned it off completely. I booted in safe mode and had no issues.

Can someone help me update this game in TM so my GPU doesn't explode?

That's normal with EAC. You can still do it via registry (requires some googling)

I've tried the method[answers.microsoft.com] I found on Google and editing it in the registry. I couldn't get it to work for whatever reason - the game would still run in low priority. I think it may just be a buggy implementation or some other factor. I can disable EAC in the launcher and still join multiplayer games, which makes no sense. Lol.