Game always running on Above Normal priority in Task Manager...

[Sora^^]

can some one confirm? it keeps resetting for me for some reason everytime I change it back to Normal..

[MaddogDino]

Surely you want it running with high priority!!?

[Sora^^]

Originally posted by MaddogDino:

Surely you want it running with high priority!!?

Ehhh.. no? its not normal and its def not good because it renders my system unusable if I want to tab out of the game, well not un usable but very sluggish because all the CPU resources are going to the game instead.. which means bad optimization.

[hypersot]

That's interesting. Never noticed it before but, indeed, it does run on 'Above Normal'.

Can it be a new windows 10 thing for games that run 'full screen'?

In the past, all full screen games had a higher priority over other processes but it didn't show in task manager.. maybe now it does

[MaddogDino]

It's only above Normal. Shouldn't be clogging your sytem down that bad. If it was on High or Highest, then maybe, but I wouldn't expect that on Above Normal.

[MaddogDino]

Originally posted by hypersot:

That's interesting. Never noticed it before but, indeed, it does run on 'Above Normal'.

Can it be a new windows 10 thing for games that run 'full screen'?

In the past, all full screen games had a higher priority over other processes but it didn't show in task manager.. maybe now it does

It's always been there by right clicking on the task in task managet but not too long ago MS moved it in Win 10 to right click Go to details.

[Faceplant]

It's a real-time game. You want it higher than normal priority. If you want to do something else on the computer, exit the game.

[hypersot]

Originally posted by MaddogDino:

Originally posted by hypersot:

That's interesting. Never noticed it before but, indeed, it does run on 'Above Normal'.

Can it be a new windows 10 thing for games that run 'full screen'?

In the past, all full screen games had a higher priority over other processes but it didn't show in task manager.. maybe now it does

It's always been there by right clicking on the task in task managet but not too long ago MS moved it in Win 10 to right click Go to details.

I was talking about no man's sky getting a higher prority over others.
I always monitor performance on a second monitor with various tools and task manager always on and never noticed it... just found it strange that it slipped my attention.

As I said though,
in the past all games were shown as running on 'normal' even when full screen when they were supposed to get a higher priority. Maybe that has changed now and task manager shows the 'real' base priority of a process.

[Prometheus]

Can confirm it is also above normal in Win7, so it is not a Win10 thing.

[MaddogDino]

Originally posted by hypersot:

Originally posted by MaddogDino:

It's always been there by right clicking on the task in task managet but not too long ago MS moved it in Win 10 to right click Go to details.

I was talking about no man's sky getting a higher prority over others.
I always monitor performance on a second monitor with various tools and task manager always on and never noticed it... just found it strange that it slipped my attention.

As I said though,
in the past all games were shown as running on 'normal' even when full screen when they were supposed to get a higher priority. Maybe that has changed now and task manager shows the 'real' base priority of a process.

They def made some changes to windows priority management.
The Default priority setting is down to the developer but windows priority management can change that.
If you google it, you'll see that a fair few folks are opting for 3rd party priority management software to prevent these unwanted (by some) resets.

[Sora^^]

Originally posted by MaddogDino:

It's only above Normal. Shouldn't be clogging your sytem down that bad. If it was on High or Highest, then maybe, but I wouldn't expect that on Above Normal.

I never said it was REALLY bad, I said it is annoying bad, because sometimes I want to watch a show at the same time or a livestream and it stutters a bit, also the first seconds I tab out the system is slow, it goes back to normal but its stil annoying and definitely not normal for it to be running on Above Normal priority , at least, I've never seen a game that defaults this setting, until now..

Originally posted by hypersot:

That's interesting. Never noticed it before but, indeed, it does run on 'Above Normal'.

Can it be a new windows 10 thing for games that run 'full screen'?

In the past, all full screen games had a higher priority over other processes but it didn't show in task manager.. maybe now it does

Originally posted by Prometheus:

Can confirm it is also above normal in Win7, so it is not a Win10 thing.

Also thanks for confirming I just wanted to make sure it was not on my end only

[MaddogDino]

The sad truth is that if you're system is clogging with NMS on above normal priority, then you are trying to do to much with your machine and should be a little gentler with it. Above Normal is not a 'steal all resources available' setting.

[Sora^^]

Originally posted by MaddogDino:

The sad truth is that if you're system is clogging with NMS on above normal priority, then you are trying to do to much with your machine and should be a little gentler with it. Above Normal is not a 'steal all resources available' setting.

meh, I'd say the sad truth is the dev team can't optimize the game for crap

The game runs fine when I switch to Normal aside from a few hiccups the instant I change the priority the first few seconds then it goes back to normal and I can play both the game and use my system just fine, but its annoying to have to change it every time I launch the game.

[M.Spengler]

You could script it and start NMS from batch.
Something like that :

set steampath=D:\Games\Steam

rem ###
"%steampath%\SteamApps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\nms.exe"
:wait
tasklist | find /i "NMS.exe" >nul 2>&1
if errorlevel 1 (
goto wait
) else (
timeout /T 10 /nobreak
wmic process where name="NMS.exe" CALL setpriority 32
)

[Sora^^]

Originally posted by M.Spengler:

You could script it and start NMS from batch.
Something like that :

set steampath=D:\Games\Steam

rem ###
"%steampath%\SteamApps\common\No Man's Sky\Binaries\nms.exe"
:wait
tasklist | find /i "NMS.exe" >nul 2>&1
if errorlevel 1 (
goto wait
) else (
timeout /T 10 /nobreak
wmic process where name="NMS.exe" CALL setpriority 32
)

Hey thats actually a nice and practic work around, thanks!

[M.Spengler]

Ya welcome