Steam games inherit the CPU priority of Steam

[rednecked_crake]

Did a search for this, but couldn't really find this precisely.

If I set Steam to low / below normal priority, then launch a Steam game, that game will inherit the same CPU priority that Steam does. Is this normal behaviour, or is there something that can be done to change it?

Cheers either way.

[edkiefer]

Did a search for this, but couldn't really find this precisely.

If I set Steam to low / below normal priority, then launch a Steam game, that game will inherit the same CPU priority that Steam does. Is this normal behaviour, or is there something that can be done to change it?

Cheers either way.

Totally normal, the game is a child of the Launcher parent process, Steam.
I would recommend not setting Steam to below normal, but there are ways around it.
1) Set Steam.exe to below-normal priority
2) find your path to Steam games and use a wildcard to all exe's, for example, "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\*.exe". That should set all games to whatever you want for priority.
3) downside of doing this is you might need the option "force Mode" enabled, it in the General menu.