Process Lasso - does anyone use it?

[Notso]

After spending most of the day on Saturday trying to go through all the available tutorials on VR and DCS - several sites mentioned Process Lasso (PL) as a way to get better frametimes and a smoother gameplay by freeing up resources.

 

I understand the ability to kill background or unneeded processes that eat up computing power - but the other feature of PL that I read about was assigning particular programs to individual cores. Now THAT I could see as a game changing approach. One of the examples in the literature was to run DCS on one core and Steam VR on another and so on. Has anyone done this? Does it work to get faster and smoother gameplay? I'm just trying to figure out if it's worth buying.

 

Also, is the free version good enough or do I need the full version to get decent results in DCS? Often the free versions are fine and the paid extra capabilities only really benefit the niche pro users in business applications, so wondered if that was true here as well wrt DCS and gaming in general.

 

TIA.

[speed-of-heat]

I did for about a month, for me it had no benefit that couldn't be achieved another way,..

[durp]

I used it for a while to see what can be done to increase the performance in VR...

Managed to get 3ms lower frametimes on the CPU by selectively testing all core combinations (2 cores to be precisely) across CCDs and CCXs, however it did cause some stuttering in other scenarios..namely multiplayer.

Right now I feel I get more consistent performance without it, it's just that the whole engine is not up to date and for me it doesn't even reach the base clockspeeds while suffocating with 30ms+ cpu frametimes.

 

It feels more like process lasso is interfering with the windows thread management and forces any spawned thread into the cores you have picked.. not just the mainthreads and such.

Also as speed-of-heat mentioned, you can achieve the same via other means... maybe less user-friendly

 

[Notso]

Good info. Thanks guys, I’ll give it a pass for now.

[DayGlow]

It made sense back when 4 core processors were three norm. I've stopped using it nor that I have a 3700x. Just don't see any benefit with modern hardware.

[Falcon_S]

...I've stopped using it nor that I have a 3700x. Just don't see any benefit with modern hardware.

 

Same.