Hi,
my E5-1650v3 / MSI GTX 980 4G Gaming combi has relatively low frame rates when playing X4 Foundations with higher graphic details and anti-aliasing.
I tried a MSI RTX 2070 Super Gaming X 8GB and noticed that even in PL performance mode the GPU had issues to reach 60 Hz with high graphic details and MSAA 4-8x.
I also noticed that GPU load didn't reach full 100% utilization, maybe because the CPU cores were unable to deliver CPU data quick enough.
In PC Builds Bottleneck calculator I found out that my CPU limits the GPU capabilities by around 9.71%.
https://pc-builds.com/calculator/Xeon_E5-1650_v3/GeForce_RTX_2070_SUPER/0Cx14olu/8/Then I got the idea to use Process Lasso to support X4 as good as possible by
- binding the X4 Game to the 6 main cores of my E5-1650v3 CPU (6/12 c/t)
- binding all other processes to the hyperthreaded cores
- setting X4 priority class to Above Normal
- setting X4 i/o priority to high
Additionally some other useful settings
- prevent sleep for PC and Display
By this I reached with not to high settings two effects
- up to 100% GPU utilization (wow)
- higher frame rates
- it was even possible to play MSAA 4x with higher resolutions and even SSAA 4x and 2x worked much better
At the beginning I used "Current" settings, but when reviewing settings it appeared as if the old defaults were still present.
So I used now "Always" in the hope that these settings are permanent at least until next reboot.
Or do I have now the problem, that its really stored permanenty, well will see later on reboot ..

My question to you:
Is it possible to recall these exact settings automatically whenever the game X4 is being started ?
Maybe by storing these settings into a profile which gets a list of applications attached, that shall be priotized this way ?
That would be a killer feature if this could be kind of automated or to select special profiles by right mouse click to the PL icon in the Windows info bar,
so that its not so much effort to select the wanted operation mode.
I think both would be cool, automation and the selection of such profiles, containing the desired settings for certain application that need special treatment.