This windows batch file opens the steam game sea of thieves and sets cpu priority to maximum

readme.md

Use

Right click raw to the right of startsot.bat and Save link as

Note: I created this to work around the fact that you can't use a real desktop shortcut to point to a real executable file for a game managed by steam.

Why does it ask for administrator privileges?

In order to set priority of a process you need administrator privileges (especially when setting above high)

startsot.bat

@echo off

:: Ask for administrative privileges

:-------------------------------------
::  --> Check for permissions
    IF "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" EQU "amd64" (
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWOW64\config\system"
) ELSE (
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"
)

:: --> If error flag set, we do not have admin.
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
    echo Requesting administrative privileges...
    goto UACPrompt
) else ( goto gotAdmin )

:UACPrompt
    echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    set params= %*
    echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c ""%~s0"" %params:"=""%", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"

    "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    exit /B

:gotAdmin
    pushd "%CD%"
    CD /D "%~dp0"
:--------------------------------------

:: Start Sea of Thieves (id: 1172620)
  start steam://rungameid/1172620

:: Wait 15 seconds
  timeout 15

:: Locate the Sea of Thieves Process and set its priority
:: Uses wmic https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/wmisdk/wmic
  wmic process where name="SoTGame.exe" call setpriority "realtime"
  CALL :CHECK_FAIL

:CHECK_FAIL
@echo off
if NOT ["%errorlevel%"]==["0"] (
    pause
    exit /b %errorlevel%
)