How to Set Steam Priority to High
Setting Steam's priority to high is a neat trick to potentially boost its performance, especially if you're multitasking on your PC. You'll have to dive into the Task Manager for this. Simply press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open Task Manager, find Steam under the 'Processes' tab, right-click on it, go to 'Details', then right-click Steam.exe, choose 'Set priority', and finally click on 'High'. Remember, changing priorities might affect how other applications run, so use this power wisely!
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Honestly, unless Steam is struggling or you're trying to squeeze out every bit of performance for your games, there's not much reason to set its priority to high. It could cause more problems than it solves by hogging resources from other processes.
Been there, done that. Setting Steam to high priority definitely made a difference for me when my rig was under heavy load from other software. Just be careful not to mess with priority settings too often; it's more of a temporary fix than a permanent solution.
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