Cannot change "ironsight.exe" process priority in Task Manager

[diwa]

Not really a complaint or a bug report, just an interesting thing I stumbled upon while trying to tune my game's performance.

Whenever I try to change the game's priority in task manager I get "Access is denied" message pop up, when I tried to force it on via some powershell wizardry the executable would refuse to run altogether. I find this strange as this is the first time I've encountered a game that fights back against any changes to this degree and I have managed to squeeze out a couple more frames on other games using this method.

Before anyone accuses me from trying to inject wallhack into the game or something: reason why I'm doing is because my CPU/GPU's utilization constantly hovers around 60% with VSync disabled on the highest quality preset and I wondered whether I could push it to 100%.
If anyone has any interesting feedback, feel free to post it below, thnx.

[clay gamer]

unless a game is terribly optimised or runs only through the CPU using the GPU to offload work, you should never hit 100% (or even close to 100%) on your CPU anyway, and I don't see how you could get 100% on both CPU/GPU in general

process PRIORITY, as the name implies, doesn't magically give you more FPS by using more GPU/CPU, it just prioritises the selected program so that if you are already at 100% it PRIORITISES that program in terms of resource usage, so I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish by trying to do this

[diwa]

Originally posted by cat:

unless a game is terribly optimised or runs only through the CPU using the GPU to offload work, you should never hit 100% (or even close to 100%) on your CPU anyway, and I don't see how you could get 100% on both CPU/GPU in general

process PRIORITY, as the name implies, doesn't magically give you more FPS by using more GPU/CPU, it just prioritises the selected program so that if you are already at 100% it PRIORITISES that program in terms of resource usage, so I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish by trying to do this

My goal is to reach stable 75fps with VSync enabled and found it stange that the game would constantly dip below that to mid-60s even though my hw utilization was nowhere near 100%. I thought it would be common sense to see hardware utilization spike up whenever it's having issues rendering the game at set amount of frames instead of sitting at, say, 60% and not using the remainder but then again I could be completely wrong as I'm not a tech wizard.

Also I am fully aware that increasing process priority "doesn't magically give you more FPS", I was merely pointing out to a fact that I have had success using this method with games such as Planetside 2 which is notoriously CPU-heavy and maxes out even the newest processors, meaning, as you mentioned, prioritising it will lead to increased performance whenever my pc struggles for resources.

Tl;dr I'm trying to make to game run at 75fps, game runs at 75fps 2/3 on the time and my hw never maxes out -> my idea of remedying this is increasing the process priority in order to offload more resources into the game and hopefully get it to perform better. Could be wrong, again not a tech wizard.

Also my original post wasn't merely about increasing performance, I was also curious as to why I cannot change the process priority in the first place so if you've got any feedback on that, feel free to post it below.
Godspeed

[DHR]

Game is just terribly optimized, there is nothing you can do about it.

[diwa]

Originally posted by DHR:

Game is just terribly optimized, there is nothing you can do about it.

guess I'll just roll over and die then

[Kirilla]

you do know easy anti cheat prevents this for happening

[diwa]

Originally posted by Kirilla:

you do know easy anti cheat prevents this for happening

no
lmao that's kinda the point of me asking

[clay gamer]

Originally posted by đ ι w a м a к a:

Originally posted by Kirilla:

you do know easy anti cheat prevents this for happening

no
lmao that's kinda the point of me asking

Hey, just found this from a post related to a different game that had the same problem:


"You'll have to use regedit. I take no responsibility if you don't know what you're doing. You can mess your system up.

Navigate to:

Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3445961178-973500344-2214906600-1001\Software\Downpour Interactive\Onward

Right click the "Onward" folder you see in the file tree and click New -> Key. Name this key/folder PerfOptions.

Click the PerfOptions key and in the new blank space right click and select New -> DWORD32bit.

Name it CpuPriorityClass, value set to 3, make sure hexidecimal is checked.

After doing that, the game should now start with high priority before easy anti cheat hooks into the game preventing any affinity changes."

[diwa]

Originally posted by cat:

Originally posted by đ ι w a м a к a:

no
lmao that's kinda the point of me asking

Hey, just found this from a post related to a different game that had the same problem:


"You'll have to use regedit. I take no responsibility if you don't know what you're doing. You can mess your system up.

Navigate to:

Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3445961178-973500344-2214906600-1001\Software\Downpour Interactive\Onward

Right click the "Onward" folder you see in the file tree and click New -> Key. Name this key/folder PerfOptions.

Click the PerfOptions key and in the new blank space right click and select New -> DWORD32bit.

Name it CpuPriorityClass, value set to 3, make sure hexidecimal is checked.

After doing that, the game should now start with high priority before easy anti cheat hooks into the game preventing any affinity changes."

That's actually really neat, imma give that a try. Thanks a bunch.
Could you also gimme a link to the forum post? (dm if you think the website's a bit sus)

[clay gamer]

Originally posted by đ ι w a м a к a:

Originally posted by cat:

Hey, just found this from a post related to a different game that had the same problem:


"You'll have to use regedit. I take no responsibility if you don't know what you're doing. You can mess your system up.

Navigate to:

Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3445961178-973500344-2214906600-1001\Software\Downpour Interactive\Onward

Right click the "Onward" folder you see in the file tree and click New -> Key. Name this key/folder PerfOptions.

Click the PerfOptions key and in the new blank space right click and select New -> DWORD32bit.

Name it CpuPriorityClass, value set to 3, make sure hexidecimal is checked.

After doing that, the game should now start with high priority before easy anti cheat hooks into the game preventing any affinity changes."

That's actually really neat, imma give that a try. Thanks a bunch.
Could you also gimme a link to the forum post? (dm if you think the website's a bit sus)

https://www.reddit.com/r/OnwardVR/comments/gmz5b6/easyanticheat_preventing_cpu_priority_change/frvw0y2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

[diwa]

Originally posted by cat:

Originally posted by đ ι w a м a к a:

no
lmao that's kinda the point of me asking

Hey, just found this from a post related to a different game that had the same problem:


"You'll have to use regedit. I take no responsibility if you don't know what you're doing. You can mess your system up.

Navigate to:

Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3445961178-973500344-2214906600-1001\Software\Downpour Interactive\Onward

Right click the "Onward" folder you see in the file tree and click New -> Key. Name this key/folder PerfOptions.

Click the PerfOptions key and in the new blank space right click and select New -> DWORD32bit.

Name it CpuPriorityClass, value set to 3, make sure hexidecimal is checked.

After doing that, the game should now start with high priority before easy anti cheat hooks into the game preventing any affinity changes."

Aight I think I'm gonna throw in the towel with this one, I couldn't find anything related to the game in the "Computer\HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-3445961178-973500344-2214906600-1001\Software\" directory and searching for relevant terms (aeria, neowiz, wiple, ironsight, gamigo, etc.) in the registry didn't bring up anything either.

I guess the issues I'm experiencing are mainly due to dx9 which apparently is a bit janky with newer AMD GPUs, especially Windows 10, both of which I have so yeah.. there's that.
Thanks for the advice, was worth the try.