Hi,

I dont know if this is even the right place to post this but i hope its okay.

I wanted to ask if it would be bannable if i made a script that would automatically change the affinity mask of the bdo process to 5554 (In the windows OS)
It would just exist so I dont have to set the affinity manually every time i start bdo but so i can start bdo and run the script.
The affinity is there so bdo only uses cores 2,4,6,8,10,12,14 of my cpu since bdo really does not like virtual/logical cores.
It does not give me a gameplay advantage and it does not interfere with the game. It just does what i can do manually in task manager anyway faster.
I woul;d rather not get smited by the new anticheat.
Thank you very much in advance for the reply and have a wonderful day!

Here is the script that i would be using (i know its written horribly but i have no idea about programming and i pieced together what i have to do with random tutorials)

The .bat file that will run the script:


The script itself:

Its not modification of files, its just forcing the game to go on to select cores.

As ryzen has issues with multiple ccxs sounds like intels newer gens have the same problem. Its because bdo is on a old engine an PA refuse to update the game to support these newer technologies so the community have to limit it as PA do not support infinite fabric out of the box  ans the latency from this bridge causes bdo to have unstable framerates out side the fact bdo cant handle more than 6 cores.

The script is not detectable as it doesnt touch the files, all it does is tell windows to put the games PID(process identification) to only utilize selected cores for the windows scheduler.

People do this in bat files but PowerShell is probably better as windows scheduler sometimes doesnt take to bat files well overriding it. Also possibly more efficent.

Iirc this is the proper script so you dont have two files:

$app_name = "D:\BDO\blackdesert.exe"

$app_arguments = "" # Add arguments here if needed

$pinfo = New-Object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo

$pinfo.FileName = $app_name

$pinfo.Arguments = $app_arguments

$p = New-Object System.Diagnostics.Process

$p.StartInfo = $pinfo

$p.Start()

$p.ProcessorAffinity = 0x00000000000005554

Check app name and process affinity. You wont be editing any files an if you want to know exactly how it works i simplified it with the reply to Cadry.

If you have issues you can add the following to the top line

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

But i dont recommend this unless you know this is exactly what you want applied to bdo each time you start it , so make sure no typos under affinity or location. As this can be tempermental with windows scheduler(it hates syntax errors simply), if you can create it to be signed there is guides i just dont remember an i usually either go remote-signed or unrestricted

Explanation on the script:

If you're unsure about using a script, I can recommend ProcessLasso (or just your task manager as long as the affinities and priority aren't being reset, I found that PL makes it so those settings never reset). Ever since they added XignCode and removed EAC, you can simply change prio and affinity in your task manager. ProcessLasso has the one downside that it will nag your after a while to buy the full version, but you can keep using it indefinitely anyways

It is full legal, you dont interfering with any games files or any process instruction sended to processor, you only do automatic optimalization process legally it is on par with programs like RAM cleaner...

I use ReShade MOD for graphic enchant and script to auto-set high priority for BDO process and I never have any problems with anty-cheat