Set priority to High or Realtime?

[ravenjedmanicdao]

Hey everybody,

I still play games on a really old rig with the infamous LGA 775 and the Pentium E5700 dual core. I am able to play games like Fallout 4 in minimum graphics at 40-60 FPS.

Right now I play Battlefield 4, and I know that dual core is the minimum spec required. I am able to play it at medium settings (NVIDIA GT 730) at about 30 FPS. Sometimes, massive explosions such as a helicopter crashing into buildings gives me a HUGE FPS drop. It really bugs me, and I have heard that setting BF4 priority to high gives it a good boost, and have more CPU time. I am wondering, is it safe to set priority to realtime?

I have played even the most modern games in this rig, which is about 6-7 years old.

Basic specs:
CPU: Pentium E5700
GPU: NVIDIA GT 730 2GB
RAM: 4GB DDR3, 1066mhz

 

[Luuk__]

If i were you, I would upgrade that CPU and GPU, but not everyone has the money, so that's none of my bussines.

I've never put a program on Realtime but you could try it? Worst case scenario your pc crashes from a bluescreen. But this will not affect your pc at all. Just try it and feel free to expirement with it to see what works best for you.

 

[Multipack]

Hey everybody,

I still play games on a really old rig with the infamous LGA 775 and the Pentium E5700 dual core. I am able to play games like Fallout 4 in minimum graphics at 40-60 FPS.

Right now I play Battlefield 4, and I know that dual core is the minimum spec required. I am able to play it at medium settings (NVIDIA GT 730) at about 30 FPS. Sometimes, massive explosions such as a helicopter crashing into buildings gives me a HUGE FPS drop. It really bugs me, and I have heard that setting BF4 priority to high gives it a good boost, and have more CPU time. I am wondering, is it safe to set priority to realtime?

I have played even the most modern games in this rig, which is about 6-7 years old.

Basic specs:
CPU: Pentium E5700
GPU: NVIDIA GT 730 2GB
RAM: 4GB DDR3, 1066mhz

Yeah it's safe, and the worst that will happen is that your system will hang but I have never known it. It doesn't make much difference in any way to be honest. You probably wont notice.

 

[McHenryB]

Unless you are running another program at the same time as the game (e.g. downloading a file in the background), setting the priority in this way will have absolutely no effect on the gaming performance. Priorities are just relative to other running tasks.

 

[ravenjedmanicdao]

Unless you are running another program at the same time as the game (e.g. downloading a file in the background), setting the priority in this way will have absolutely no effect on the gaming performance. Priorities are just relative to other running tasks.

Oh, I literally close everything, even the battle log in Google Chrome, and leave only Battlefield 4 the only program open. I always set the priority on high, and I heard that realtime is really dangerous because it has the most attention, leaving barely any cycles for the keyboard and mouse, causing very late responses, but I don't know if that's true. It would be great if you could tell me the advantages and disadvatages of realtime

 

[ravenjedmanicdao]

All I want to do is just squeeze as much performance as I can, I know it's DEFINITELY NOT built for gaming, but I am pushing the limits of my PC, so far I have overclocked the GPU core by 330mhz, 260 for memory. CPU is the biggest bottleneck, and would it help reduce if I were to set priority to high?