autoprocprio

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TL;DR:

Ad-hoc tool for making Counter-Strike not lag as much.

Windows app available; see the Releases page to download.

This was built for Windows, but Linux is also supported via the Python script version.

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Longer version:

Python 3 script for automatically setting (primarily Windows) processes' CPU priority and affinity by process name.

This script is a kludge meant for continuously setting BAD_PROCNAMES to the lowest CPU priority, and isolating their threads affinity to CPU core(s) separate from the list of processes defined in GOOD_PROCNAMES.

"Inspired" by repeated bad experiences with steamwebhelper.exe losing me CS rounds by using over 30 percent of CPU time when I really wanted to be drawing video game frames with those cycles instead.

This script should be video game anti-cheat safe — all it does is iterate running processes, and selectively read & reassign said process priority and CPU affinity levels, much like one could manually do using a task manager — but use at your own risk.

For Python module requirements, please see the requirements file.

Usage:

Windows app version:

Basic use:

• Just run the app executable in the background

Custom app rules:

• Create a shortcut to the executable.
• Add the argparse options after the shortcut's Target path. Supported argparse options:

-g GOOD, --good GOOD  comma-delimited list of app(s) to prioritize (optional); will overwrite defaults
-b BAD, --bad BAD     comma-delimited list of app(s) to deprioritize (optional); will overwrite defaults
-G, --appendgood      comma-delimited list of app(s) to prioritize (optional); will append to defaults
-B, --appendbad       comma-delimited list of app(s) to deprioritize (optional); will append to defaults

For example:

This would append hammer.exe to the list of prioritized apps, and vrad.exe, vvis.exe, and vbsp.exe to the list of deprioritized apps.

Python script version:

Basic use:

• Run the script: python autoprocprio.py
• Or from pipx:
  • Install:

    pip install --upgrade pipx
    pipx install git+https://github.com/Rainyan/autoprocprio.git

  • Run: autoprocprio
• Or from pipenv:
  • Install: pipenv --install && pipenv run pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt
  • Run: pipenv run python autoprocprio.py
  • Or run as sudo (required on Linuxes where lowering niceness is typically a privileged action):

    pipenv shell && sudo $(which python) autoprocprio.py

    • Alternatively, instead of running as superuser, set the appropriate "nice" resource limit for the unprivileged user.

Custom app rules:

• Launch the script with --help to see the supported argument inputs description.

Troubleshooting/questions/feature requests

Feel free to open a ticket!