zintom/gameoptimizer

Boosts gaming performance by limiting the 'priority' of other processes and optionally limiting how many CPU cores they can use.

Zintoms Game Optimizer

Boosts gaming performance by limiting the 'priority' of other processes and optionally limiting how many CPU cores they can use (processor 'Affinity').

Download

To download, go to the releases section, find your platform and download the corresponding .zip file; Alternatively go to the main/Compiled directory and download the zip from there.

First start

When in the Main Menu, you have two methods of boosting, using the pre-built modes under the 'Optimize' menu, or, by manually entering a command via the 'Command Input' option. To view more info on commands see 'Help' in the Main Menu.

Must-do's before running

All processes you do not want affected by the optimizer are kept in a whitelist file called "process_whitelist.txt", which is automatically generated when you first run the app. By default it contains a list of common programs/games that do not want optimizing like the Steam processes etc. You will need to add your apps/games to this list in order for the optimizer to ignore them.

To add new apps/games to the white-list; first find the app/game executable name (either through Task Manager or by going to the installation path of the app/game and finding the .exe file); Then copy the application name into the "process_whitelist.txt" file on a new line without the '.exe' extension.

If you wish to group different applications in the file together, you can use the comment symbol '#' to label groups, the optimizer ignores whatever is written in front of this symbol so you can label sections like '# Games' and '# Apps' etc.

If you use communication apps like Discord, Teamspeak or Mumble, I highly suggest you add these to the whitelist file.

Last bit

If you find any bugs please report them on the issues page; Likewise if you want to contribute feel free to fork the project and make a pull request with your changes/improvements and I'll take a look.

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Thanks for using my app 😃

gameoptimizer's Issues

Run by administrator by default.

Expand on the LimitToOneCore method.

Note to self:

The method LimitToOneCore() is marked as Obsolete as it never really took off. It could be so much more though, maybe it could have parameters where you could specify which cores it limits to with a CoreLimiter enum which has flags for each core that is to be enabled, this was imply a name change too; the method signature might look something like this "void LimitToCores(Process p, CoreLimiter limiter".

This could then be used in the Optimize method as an overload: ..., CoreLimiter limiter = CoreLimiter.All.

Update to ShellHelper 2.0.1

ShellHelper (now InteractiveShell) has a new major release with breaking-changes, migrate to this newer version for future proofing and stability.

InteractiveShell is now a NuGet package rather than a standalone DLL, meaning the External Libs folder can finally be deprecated.

Add reload command for reloading the priority_proccess.txt file.

Notes to self:

Add a command/option to reload the priority_proccess.txt file during runtime.

Possibly add a FileSystemWatcher to monitor when the file changes and mark the internal PriorityProcesses List as "in need of reload" so that when Optimize() is called it can check this and reload if necessary.

There's no Android version of this?

I want to try it but it's only available in PC. i don't have PC so can you make Android version of this?

Crash when an optimized process has exited.

During restore, the app crashes when a process in the _changedProcesses has exited.

Fix:
Perform a check on process.HasExited property prior to acting on a ProcessStateChange object.

Add option to change optimization delay and auto-minimize toggle.

The auto-minimize toggle is already an internal flag under OptimizeConditions.NoHide, we just need a way for the user to change the setting from the settings menu.

Integrate with Rivertuner SS

Have an option in the main menu for launching Rivertuner Statistics Server, handy for those who have frame limiters on RSS.

Make settings and whitelist global rather than being in the app directory.

Pledge to move the settings.dat and process_whitelist.txt out of the application directory and into the %appdata%\Local or %appdata%\Roaming folders for windows users.

You could probably also have a similar one for Linux users, under a $HOME/.zintomgameoptimizer file.

Whitelist uses Linux line-endings

The whitelist file is generated with Linux line endings (\n) rather than Windows line endings (\r\n). This causes issues on basic programs like Notepad as they do not recognise this discrepancy and do not show the new line, even though technically it's there.

Fix:
Rather than using the explicit literal \n use Environment.Newline to get a platform specific line terminator.

Move code out of Program.cs and decouple.

Note to self:

Move code out of Program.cs and decouple the functions.