Performance Issue

MooMoo444 · 14 Jan 2014 at 16:33

Probably not completely strictly PC games related, but it only happens during PC gaming, so perhaps someone can enlighten me.

When playing games, about 2/3's of games will randomly minimize during play and throw up a "Window's has detected it is running slowly, would you like to switch to the Windows Basic theme to improve performance?"...or something along those lines.

How do I stop this, god damn it's so annoying. It's clearly lying as my PC is definitely not struggling with anything.

lflowers · 14 Jan 2014 at 16:35

Would also like to know this, it can be so irritating when midway through a race or something.

ThundyCat · 14 Jan 2014 at 16:47

Do you guys both have rotating desktop wallpapers?

ThundyCat · 14 Jan 2014 at 16:54

Just found this and it seems to work,

Type "advance system settings" in search box and select "view advance system settings".

On advance tab, click settings under performance.

In visual effect, select adjust for best performance and on the list, tick enable desktop composition, show thumbnails instead of icons, smooth edges of screen fonts and use visual styles on windows and buttons.

MooMoo444 · 14 Jan 2014 at 16:54

Nothing like that, no. Just bog standard. Aero left on default.

Edit; you ninja'd me - will try the above. Thanks!

NeoReloaded · 14 Jan 2014 at 17:10

I used to get this all the time too, but a few months ago it stopped and I'd forgotten about it until I read this haha!

Slam · 14 Jan 2014 at 17:59

I get this on one title:Grid.
Never did figure out how to stop it

Fuggan · 14 Jan 2014 at 18:08

I hate all the Aero notifications in general! Turned them off a while back as it used to randomly switch my theme to a W7 basic one, well annoying.

barmyllama · 14 Jan 2014 at 19:07

Isn't it something to do with running low on VRAM?

Dave**** · 14 Jan 2014 at 21:51

barmyllama said:
Isn't it something to do with running low on VRAM?

AFAIK yes because it only used to happen to me on certain games and they would be ones that I would imagine would be using all of my vram (BF3, BF4, witcher 2, skyrim etc) but it would never happen on retro/indie games.

The best way I found to avoid this was to change the properties of the game in question to disable desktop composition. Same fix as posted above but this way you get to keep aero because it will only turn off aero when you run the game and then turn aero back on again when the game has stopped (or in the case of BF3 and 4 it won't turn it off and you will have to turn aero back on manually.. bravo again dice..).

Edit: After using win8.1 for 2 months and initially being annoyed at there being no aero feature I have to say that I had forgot about these annoying notifications and now that I think about it I am actually pretty glad to see it gone.

theone8181 · 14 Jan 2014 at 22:00

Dave**** said:
AFAIK yes because it only used to happen to me on certain games and they would be ones that I would imagine would be using all of my vram (BF3, BF4, witcher 2, skyrim etc) but it would never happen on retro/indie games.

The best way I found to avoid this was to change the properties of the game in question to disable desktop composition. Same fix as posted above but this way you get to keep aero because it will only turn off aero when you run the game and then turn aero back on again when the game has stopped (or in the case of BF3 and 4 it won't turn it off and you will have to turn aero back on manually.. bravo again dice..).

Edit: After using win8.1 for 2 months and initially being annoyed at there being no aero feature I have to say that I had forgot about these annoying notifications and now that I think about it I am actually pretty glad to see it gone.

it works when you stop origin and the web browser

Akagi · 14 Jan 2014 at 22:03

Mine does it once on some games, only once because I have an option to ignore and never pester again, which seems to work.