Process Lasso

[bdub76]

Anybody use this software?

I stumbled upon it when looking at how to run a HBS Battletech mod:

Performance Tips - BTAWiki

www.bta3062.com

I'm thinking about giving the free version a try and see if it gives me any improvement.

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[coffeeprogrammer]

I own a copy of Process Lasso, but I don't currently use it. I have to two different systems that are clones of each other and they are both dual socket Xeons, so they end up with 88 cores each. It is kinda cool seeing that in task manager. They are currently wiped and power down in my hardware room, but when I was using that system regularly I would often have six or more VMs running at a time. I bought process lasso to see if the VMs would run better. I am not sure if it really did, but them I never real was able to max out CPU usage without a stress test. Most applications will not use more than 32 cores at a time, so there were always extra cores. My guess would be that kind of application might be useful only if you are doing something highly multi-threaded. As a concept, Windows Internals talks about multi threading and thread affinity. Likely process lasso is really just a windows driver that aids in Windows thread scheduler.

I just asked chatGPT this:

Write me a Windows Kernel driver that will allow me control over how windows controls the scheduling of threads and tell me which kernel apis are important for that and why.

and it gave a seemingly useful response.

 

[GBark]

I have used Process Lasso Pro for well over a decade and I absolutely love it. I typically only run my Windoze 10 box for gaming (and GRC software testing), having switched to Linux years ago. I like the tremendous configurability that it affords. It will prevent Windoze from sleeping while running user specified programs, etc. (as will other methods, admittedly) or for an easily selected period of time. And it has demonstrated its ability to "lasso" the kernel or other processes that try to run wild over the years. You can really drill down and see what programs and processes are doing with your processor cores, memory, etc.

It's one of only a handful of programs that I've recommend many times without hesitation. My current version is 15.0.3.22.

 

[bdub76]

I have used Process Lasso Pro for well over a decade and I absolutely love it. I typically only run my Windoze 10 box for gaming (and GRC software testing), having switched to Linux years ago. I like the tremendous configurability that it affords. It will prevent Windoze from sleeping while running user specified programs, etc. (as will other methods, admittedly) or for an easily selected period of time. And it has demonstrated its ability to "lasso" the kernel or other processes that try to run wild over the years. You can really drill down and see what programs and processes are doing with your processor cores, memory, etc.

It's one of only a handful of programs that I've recommend many times without hesitation. My current version is 15.0.3.22.

Any tips?

It kept crashing my computer when I used the conditions above for that HBS Battletech game, so I uninstalled it. I was probably using it wrong on Windows 11.

 

[GBark]

bdub76, sorry PL didn't work for you. I doubt that the rather simple core affinity changes would create a problem, however . . . Windoze 11???
It might be worth a try to run PL using defaults and see what, if any, impact it has on your gaming. Try toggling back to see what PL is doing in real-time while you're gaming. That might provide some insight.

Best of luck.