How to make OW automatically run at High Priority?

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I’ve looked this up and things the people are doing do not work for me.

But I also am very bad with technology, so there’s a good chance that’s why.

How can I get OW to run at High Priority automatically? Please explain in like the easiest way possible just because I do not know most things about how computers work lol

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I don’t even know what you mean by “high priority”?

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The option when you go to Task Manager -> Details -> right-click Overwatch.exe -> set priority

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Well, why are you trying to do this?

If your PC is having trouble running OW while other applications are on in the background, you can simply turn those off when you play OW.

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Optimization and convenience. I can also set it to High Priority manually, but I would like the convenience of not having to do that.

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Add this to your registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\Overwatch.exe\PerfOptions] "CpuPriorityClass"=dword:00000003

If you don’t know what that means, here are the full instructions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/652nn6/permanently_set_overwatch_to_run_as_a_high/

I found this page by googling the title of this topic.

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So I followed the instructions, but when I open Overwatch and then check to see if the priority is set to High, it is still defaulted to Normal (Note: In the post, there is an additional line of required text for the edit, and I added that)

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Disclaimer: editing your registry can be risky if you don’t know wft you’re doing. I’m providing this info in good faith and won’t be held liable if your computer explodes or something.

  1. Run regedit.msc.
  2. Stick this in the address bar at the top: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\Overwatch.exe\PerfOptions. If it doesn’t exist, use the hierarchical view on the left to add the appropriate sub-keys (right click, “New”, “Key”).
  3. Add a new DWORD to PerfOptions (right click, “New”, “DWORD”). Name it “CpuPriorityClass” and set it’s value to 3.

You can change the value for a different priority. 3 = High, 6 = Above Normal, 4 = Normal, 5 = Low