plugins-extra VS windows-terminal-quake

Or Process Hacker (https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/) which IMO is even better.

I can use Process Hacker and run "Reduce working set" on it, which makes explorer.exe instantly go down to ~100MB. However, it just starts leaking RAM again and it's a matter of hours until it grows back to several GB.

I can't have a task manager style tool installed? It's completely safe and does NOTHING in terms of cheating, no other game has ever flagged it as false positive. Is this AC so bad that it sees the word "h4Ck3R" and thinks it needs to be removed? What else is this thing needlessly scanning my computer for?

you need Process Hacker

You mean this? https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/

http://www.lucashale.com/timer-resolution/ set to maximum https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/ Set valheim.exe priority to high and save it.

If you are on the latest BIOS, the next thing I'd be looking at is something that's hitting I/O, either use Process Hacker: https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/ or task manager to try and catch the process causing the problem.

Please use a decent task manager like Process hacker or Task manager deluxe, the Windows one is kinda lacking functionality.

I use the third-party https://github.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake (from before an official quake mode was added to Windows Terminal, and this one works better anyway) and it opens a window for an instant on startup before minimizing to the system tray.

Im also a big fan of Quake-style console (using ddterm on Linux) and I am happy to tell you that Windows Terminal has a Quake companion app that is worth a try :)

I know it's not ideal because separate binary and all but https://github.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake has been good to me :)

I've been using https://github.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake for a while now. If its implemented anywhere near it, please be aware of z-index issues especially if i've got "always on top" apps.

It seems nice but using WSL(2) Windows Terminal is noticeably faster for me, same compared to most other alternatives including Cmder/ConEmu.

While Windows Terminal doesn't have a settings UI (yet[0]) it does allow for theming, this page[1] features a range of color schemes that you can define and set in your settings.json.

There's also a wrapper that allows for quake style drop down [2] until it's implemented by Windows Terminal itself[0].

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/terminal...

[1] https://windowsterminalthemes.dev/

[2] https://github.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake