Curious as I have done a considerable amount of searching on this topic and haven't found any meaningful information or answers. I regularly run 2 instances of the client and recently, one of the clients crashes or just force closes itself regularly. By regularly I mean it could happen in a variety of different time frames (instantly, 10 minutes, hours).
After so many times of it happening I began attempting to look into the problem and quickly learned that I could not change the priority of the CoH process in task manager from anything other than Normal (while game has focus) or Below Normal (when alt-tabbed from client). Admittedly, I have recently been using process lasso to save process priorities. I am no genius when it comes to that piece of software but I am aware that it includes a lot of power balancing and auto adjustment features when it comes to managing cpu priorities. I went through the program and diasbled all the aforementioned features and attempted to manually set the priority to High and saw that it immediately returned to Normal or Below Normal.
I still suspected it had something to do with process lasso so I uninstalled it with Revo Uninstaller Pro and rebooted. I opened one instance of Homecoming and tried to set cpu priority for cityofheroes.exe to High and saw that it still would not change from Normal or Below Normal. Anyways, I can't help but think that this is the reason my extra instance of the game is terminating itself if it is automatically setting the process to Below Normal priority while alt tabbed away from it. Also, I prefer and always have liked to set any game I play to High priority and it's frustrating having this option taken away from me.
Does anyone else have this problem? If so, how did you fix it? Is it something built into the homecoming process itself or a feature of Windows 11 I am not aware of? Thanks in advance to anyone with any insight.
