Framerate drops to single digits in random bursts
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TootsyBowl
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Framerate drops to single digits in random bursts
Happens randomly, even in them menus. It fixes itself in a few seconds but it's getting quite annoying. Otherwise the framerate is smooth and playable.
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Graf Zahl
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Re: Framerate drops to single digits in random bursts
That sounds like some background task is periodically stealing some time. Can be some antivirus, some malware or even a badly behaved driver. I'm afraid you'll have to dig around in your system to find what is causing it. GZDoom is particularly susceptible to such antics because it normally runs one CPU core at 100%.
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TootsyBowl
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Re: Framerate drops to single digits in random bursts
I often have Chrome open in the background and I'm certain my ESET antivirus runs all the time. I heard ESET eats up a lot of resources.Graf Zahl wrote:That sounds like some background task is periodically stealing some time. Can be some antivirus, some malware or even a badly behaved driver. I'm afraid you'll have to dig around in your system to find what is causing it. GZDoom is particularly susceptible to such antics because it normally runs one CPU core at 100%.
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wildweasel
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Re: Framerate drops to single digits in random bursts
It's generally wise to close web browsers while playing (especially if you leave them on pages like TweetDeck or Facebook that are constantly auto-refreshing or running scripts in the background), and most decent anti-virus programs should have a "gaming mode" that will cause them to stop bothering you while a game is running (I usually had this on 100% of the time back when I had Avast installed).