setting high priority for tasks

[rh71]

Do you ever do it ? Is there really any performance gain ?

Sometimes I convert videos (TMPGenc / VirtualDubMod / etc) ... would setting these apps to high priority make a difference ? All I'm doing otherwise is web browsing...

 

[Parkre]

I set mediaplayerclassic to high. Because when i load web pages, it slows down and bugs the heck outta me. I have only had my rig crash once since doing it, but I am not sure if that was what caused the crashed.

 

[wahoyaho]

i only ever set some to low b/c it's eating up all the resources for no reason

 

[Nothinman]

It's a bad idea because the Windows process scheduler seems to give priorities above normal an extremely high amount of preference, so much so that if you have a CPU intensive process running above normal or high priority the normal or lower priority process will get virtually no CPU time.