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Faure · Sep 15, 2008, 12:51 PM // 12:51

So everytime i start GW it's process priority is set to lowest. I want to change this to normal, so it won't get hampered by surfing or other multitasking i am doing when i play gw.

Anyway to overrule, or maybe remove this default priority setting?
Running on Wxp sp2.

Thanks.

edit; i read some things of 'when gw is at background it's set to lowest automatically', but i don't want it to do that. I mostly multitask when loading a map or something, which results in gw hanging for longer then normal.

Kattar · Sep 15, 2008, 01:30 PM // 13:30

Other than to manually set it every time, there's no way to do. When it's minimized or in the background, it puts it on a lower priority. It's a Windows thing that does this, I'm fairly certain, so there's no easy way around it.

Tharg · Sep 15, 2008, 01:31 PM // 13:31

I don't know about the priority - it seems to me that the standard setting would be that it whould run at a normal priority. To speed things up you might consider running Guild Wars once with as "GW.EXE -image". This will force GW to download ALL files, so that you never have to pause during the game to download. You do this once, thereafter start it up with GW.EXE as usual.

Faure · Sep 15, 2008, 02:04 PM // 14:04

I know about the -image, and i'm just talking about the loading itself. It normally (if i stay focussed) is no problem, but i'm impatient and do things while loading. Though i get punished for it, because my front application (i.e. surfer or w/e) gets prority (which i don't want).

Though, it seems there's no real easy sollution, so i'll just stick to waiting longer, or not multitask

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SkekSister · Sep 15, 2008, 02:42 PM // 14:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by Katsumi

When it's minimized or in the background, it puts it on a lower priority. It's a Windows thing that does this, I'm fairly certain, so there's no easy way around it.

Yep that's windows task managing processes, no easy way to change it that I know of either.

Felixious · Sep 15, 2008, 05:07 PM // 17:07

How'd you make it go down to low in the first place?

Faure · Sep 15, 2008, 07:18 PM // 19:18

Appereantly Windows does

Because I would never do something like that.

Lady Lozza · Sep 16, 2008, 05:31 AM // 05:31

If you set it manually, you will have to set it every single time you start GW. I don't know of anyway to permenantly assign CPU priorities.

You can also set your cores (if you have a multi-core processor) to deal with certain tasks - this may also speed things for you. You can isolate a core to deal with GW if you want, but once again you will have to set this everytime you boot the program.

Quaker · Sep 16, 2008, 04:54 PM // 16:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lady Lozza

You can isolate a core to deal with GW if you want, but once again you will have to set this everytime you boot the program.

Not true, there are apps (ForceCore, etc.) that will do it for you automagically.