FFXIV Process Priority.

[Blintz]

Hello, past days i've been noticed my FFXIV game was running slower than It's used to. I checked ffxivgame process on windows 7 task manager and it's priority is Low. Changed it to Normal-High and it goes back to low.

Anyone else having this? This makes my game going slower and sometimes i get stuck for 1-2 seconds (almost failing most of my minning attempts because of this).

[leomax]

Hey, it happens to me too!

[Ketone]

That's just the way the game is handed, apparently. Someone wrote a neat little program that keeps the game set to high priority and also organizes disorganized threads in multi core CPUs for (supposedly) better performance.

http://www.ffxivcore.com/topic/14676...fficial-topic/

[Blintz]

Big thanks, man. m(_ _)m

[Shokun]

The low priority is only because while you are viewing the task manager, it lowers the priority of XIV to save energy or whatnot. While you have the XIV window active, it will run at normal priority. Tested this just now, it's simple if your XIV window is smaller than your screen resolution or have more than one screen, just have them both visible at the same time and toggle between the windows to see priority change.

//The program Ketone linked is also written and updated around beta and release in 2010, and was meant originally for beta client only. I would not recommend using the program as it can possibly mess up your system, changing process priorities at a whim is not exactly safe.

[Ketone]

The low priority is only because while you are viewing the task manager, it lowers the priority of XIV to save energy or whatnot. While you have the XIV window active, it will run at normal priority. Tested this just now, it's simple if your XIV window is smaller than your screen resolution or have more than one screen, just have them both visible at the same time and toggle between the windows to see priority change.

//The program Ketone linked is also written and updated around beta and release in 2010, and was meant originally for beta client only. I would not recommend using the program as it can possibly mess up your system, changing process priorities at a whim is not exactly safe.

I'm pretty sure you're wrong on all accounts. I made a log of a play session when using it some time last week, or possibly earlier this week. It works exactly as intended. Also you shouldn't say things as a matter-of-fact if you're lacking a basic grasp of how they work. Switching the priorities of a program will not "mess up your system", and doing it "on a whim" is not only safe, it's happening right now on your machine.

Also, "was meant originally for beta client only" is also ignorant. The program finds the process in windows and then resets it to high priority (or whatever you want it set to) whenever it sees that it changes. It has nothing to do with beta clients, or even the internal functions of FFXIV at all, really. You could change a value before compiling and the program would do the same for MSPaint if you wanted.