Introducing EFP software (BETA)

My Escape from Tarkov app is available in 5 languages. Download link at the bottom.

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More in depth tutorial on how to use it soon.

EFP? Yes, it's a macronym and it stands for EFT FPS PLZ. Because the name of the app had to be non-sense and humorous, just like the game overall performance over the years.

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EFP is a kind of swiss-knife application dedicated to optimizations, tweaks, and a handful of quality-of-life bonuses for Escape from Tarkov. It exposes a lot of useful options to help alleviate some of the pain that comes with the game's shaky performance.

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It's not perfect, but it's much better than watching a 2-hour video from years ago to try to optimize the game and tweak colors. Every option it surfaces is meaningful and might help your performance. EFP doesn't automatically do everything for you — some settings come pre-filled with what makes the most sense for your rig, but you still need to test on your end.

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Every PC config is unique. If you want a professional to tune yours, you can book an appointment with me. (Beneficial for any game, not just EFT.)

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What it actually does

When you launch EFT (or Arena), EFP notices and applies whatever you've set up for that game profile — pinning the right CPU cores, bumping process priority, switching your GPU into "stop sandbagging" mode, loading your color filter, boosting your audio output so you can actually hear footsteps. It also adds the game to Windows' High GPU Performance list and adds the game's install folder to the Defender exclusions so it doesn't get scanned while you play (what the hell, Windows?).

When you close the game, it puts everything back the way it was. You don't have to remember to undo anything. You don't have to remember to re-apply anything next time. You set it once, and forget it exists until it's time to tune. As long as the app is running, it will apply your tweaks.

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CPU & priority

If you've ever set affinity in Task Manager only to have it reset on every launch — stop. You don't need the weight of all the features Process Lasso ships with either; EFP does this for EFT without tracking every process running on your rig. It pins the game to the cores that actually help you and ignores the ones that don't. Exclude Core 0 if Windows likes to clutter it with background timers. The app detects your CPU and, for example, locks Tarkov to the cache CCD on a 7900X3D or 9950X3D, or similar CPUs that benefit from doing so. Lets you target performance cores on Intel hybrid if you want to see whether it helps your rig (it might, depending). Pick a preset, write a custom mask, or just leave it on All Cores — EFP doesn't pretend a magic value works for everybody. Per-game priority bumps to High the second the process spawns.

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If you stream from the same PC you play on, there's a separate streaming affinity setting that pins OBS (or your streaming software) to a chunk of cores you reserve for it. Tarkov keeps its cores, OBS keeps its cores, neither one starves the other mid-raid. Per-game like everything else, so the affinity only kicks in while Tarkov is actually running.

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NVIDIA & AMD, per-game, the boring stuff that actually matters

The NVIDIA control panel has thirty pages and forty pop-ups. EFP turns the ones that affect Tarkov into a single column of toggles, per game. Power Management to Prefer Maximum Performance, Texture Quality to High Performance, ReBAR per-game (disabled by default by NVIDIA), Shader Cache unlimited, MSI mode for the GPU interrupt, Smooth Motion if you want it, DLSS preset override.

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AMD's driver exposes fewer per-app knobs than NVIDIA, so there's less to flip on that side — but the Texture Filtering Quality → Performance toggle is the one that actually moves the needle for Tarkov.

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You toggle it, EFP writes the per-game profile to the NVIDIA / AMD driver, and that's that. No app of theirs needs to be running. No login prompt every six weeks. You can keep your drivers up to date and the app will make sure the settings are still right.

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Color & visual

Tarkov is a dark game. The maps are dark. The interiors are dark. Half of the playerbase tweaks their monitor's contrast or runs a third-party LUT to brighten things up — and then forgets to turn it off when they're done. EFP applies your chosen color filter on game launch and reverts it on close. No need to flashbang your eyes when EFT is not running. Sliders for brightness, contrast, and gamma sit on top, with a live Preview button so you can A/B compare before committing. There's also a button to open Windows Color Management directly if you want to double-check.

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Audio

LEQ (Loudness Equalization) on your output device — applied while EFT is running, turned off when you close the game. Windows sometimes hides this option; EFP has a built-in installer that can restore it (might not work on every device, but worth a try). Hear footsteps, and don't massacre your music listening experience after you close Tarkov.

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Volume hotkeys you can actually bind. Six shortcuts: down, up, mute toggle, plus three preset levels (low / mid / high) with the percentages you pick. EFP drives Tarkov's slider in Windows' Volume Mixer directly, so Discord, Spotify, and your browser aren't touched. Hit mute or reduce your volume easily if you hop in the BTR and you don't want to blow your ear drums — auto-unmute is built in, so any non-mute hotkey snaps you back where you were. Only active while the game is running. A short two-tone beep tells you which way you went.

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Tracking what actually happened

EFP reads the game's logs and watches the presentation pipeline to give you a real per-raid record. Total raids, time spent in raid vs. menus / loading / queues, top map, average load time, longest raid, shortest raid, last session details. Separate cards for EFT and Arena. A time-split bar so you can see at a glance how much of your "Tarkov time" is actually Tarkov vs. how much is the loading screen scrolling Customs tips you've read 400 times.

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Per-raid FPS and GPU, opt-in. Flip the FPS Tracker on once and every future raid logs Avg / 1% Low / Max FPS plus GPU avg / P95 alongside the rest. Stats lock to the raid the moment it ends, so a long lobby tax later doesn't poison your average. Want to peek mid-raid? Hit Refresh in the history tab — you'll see preliminary numbers for the raid in progress that finalize the moment you extract or die.

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The tracker runs through PresentMon — the same tool the hardware press uses for game benchmarking. It runs as a separate background process and only while EFT or Arena is open. Nothing hooks into the game.

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No overlay. EFP doesn't draw an FPS counter on top of the game — if you want that, MSI Afterburner and RTSS already do it well, and EFP doesn't fight them. The point of the per-raid log isn't a number ticking in your corner during a fight; it's being able to compare yesterday's Customs run to today's after you tried that one config change you read about.

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Presentation pipeline (HIF / Composed Flip / Legacy)

Tarkov can render in three different present modes. Hardware Independent Flip is what you want — the GPU hands the frame to the display directly, no detour, lowest latency. Composed Flip means Windows' compositor is in the loop, costs you frames and adds latency. Legacy is worse still. The mode you actually get depends on Windows version, overlays you have running, capture software, fullscreen vs. borderless, monitor topology, drivers — there's no single setting that pins it.

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EFP shows you which mode the current session is in and how many seconds you've spent in each. If something flips you out of HIF mid-session — an overlay you forgot was on, an Alt-Tab to a browser, a Discord screen-share starting — you'll see Composed seconds tick up while you play and you can fix whatever caused it. Without this readout, the only signal you'd get is "feels worse" and you'd be guessing.

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Presets and backups

The Streamer tab lets you grab settings from people who play this game way too much. Browse, import, done. Want to share your own? Export your settings and your friends can import them with one click. Backup your whole keybinds / mouse sens setup with one click too — restore from your last backup if you ever wipe your settings or move to a new PC.

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What EFP will NOT do

Install kernel drivers. The app is a normal Windows process. It uses documented APIs. Break the game. Nothing here triggers anti-cheat. Affinity, priority, NVIDIA profiles, color filters, audio routing — all of it is normal Windows behavior that the OS and the driver are happy with. Every system call against EFT.exe is throttled and verified so the anti-cheat doesn't get twitchy.

And in case you're wondering: nothing happens behind your back. The Log panel at the bottom of the app tells you what just happened, every time. If a setting can't apply for any reason, EFP shows the actual Windows error code instead of a friendly lie.

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Multi-install, multi-game, multi-language

Run Tarkov from both the BSG launcher AND Steam? EFP finds both when you launch them, reads both log folders, applies Defender exclusions and GPU preferences to both. Has Arena installed too? Separate profile, separate stats card, separate everything.

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App ships in English, French, German, Spanish, Russian. It will tell you in the top right if an update is available.

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Patches can break things. I keep the app updated and fix bugs as they show up — let me know if you find one.

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