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Disabling under-prioritization of background tasks in Windows 11

Anonymous
2022-05-02T12:04:14+00:00

Heya,

So, put together a new machine, installed Windows 11, was surprised that under certain circumstances I was having trouble when trying to use VR apps or games.
Boiled down the culprit to the way that Windows 11 manages the background tasks.

Maybe I'm just not finding my way, but is there a way to completely disable this new functionality that reduces the priority of background apps?

I imagine that this might be done with the intent of saving energy (as it's definitely not a prioritization of resources, neither CPU nor GPU are at 100%), but it's clearly harming the performance of apps that would otherwise work normally.

Thanks in advance

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-05-05T18:12:11+00:00

    Hello NelsonDuarte3,

    thank you for providing this question and i hope to resolve your problems quickly.

    In the start menu search for advanced system settings.Click the advanced tab and here open the performance settings. In the performance settings open the advanced tab and set the setting for planning of cpu time to priorize the proper execution of background apps.

    If this didn't solve your problem or you need further assistance please answer in this thread and i would be happy to help.

    kind regards

    F. Grobusch

    Hi,

    I am having some MASSIVE issues regarding Windows 11 and background applications not running as they should.

    I have tried setting the advances Processor scheduling both to adjust for best performance of Programs and Background Services to no avail.

    Example:

    I have a game open (Let's say World of Warcraft).

    I have Discord open and I am streaming my game.

    If I have my game selected and move around in my game, my friends see the stream lagging HORRIBLE (sub 1 fps).

    If I have discord selected and have set my character to autorun the stream is displayed perfectly.

    This is also the case for other applications that require more background processing.

    I have also tried to set all the Discord processes to "Above Normal" priority.

    My system is more than capable to handle what I am trying to make it do.

    CPU: 5800x3d

    GPU: RTX 3090

    RAM: 32GB 3200Mhz

    I hope someone can assist me with this as it is crippling.

    Cheers

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-05-02T13:14:53+00:00

    Hello NelsonDuarte3,

    thank you for providing this question and i hope to resolve your problems quickly.

    In the start menu search for advanced system settings.Click the advanced tab and here open the performance settings. In the performance settings open the advanced tab and set the setting for planning of cpu time to priorize the proper execution of background apps.

    If this didn't solve your problem or you need further assistance please answer in this thread and i would be happy to help.

    kind regards

    F. Grobusch

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