Strange Problem

Shadz · 12 May 2012 at 00:08

Hi Guys,

Just lately I have been getting this message in the image below when playing
games like BF3 and Blacklight Retribution another FPS, the strange things is
though I ain't got a clue why I'm getting the message.

I thought RAM so I got some more so I now have 16Gb and I am still having the
problem, spec of my system in my sig. Thanks guys.

Idleman · 12 May 2012 at 00:14

I have had the same message a couple of times, i just ignore it.

Shadz · 12 May 2012 at 00:17

Idleman said:
I have had the same message a couple of times, i just ignore it.

I could just ignore it but i would rather find the root of the problem so that i
can fix it or whatever i need to do.

pryere · 12 May 2012 at 01:27

Idleman said:
I have had the same message a couple of times, i just ignore it.

Life is too short.

Shadz · 13 May 2012 at 19:15

I'm assuming that no one has a good idea why this might be happening?

smithy83 · 13 May 2012 at 19:33

i get the same error time to time ive narrowed it down (for me at least)my second display or virtu mvp

Smoogels · 13 May 2012 at 20:07

It's noting perticually to worry about. It just pops up if it thinks it can improve performence if you change it (which is a very very small increase in performence)

Have you got a lot of software and stuff in the background? Flash web pages could cause this error to pop if you have a few of them open.

Shadz · 13 May 2012 at 20:36

Nah I have got "RainMeter" running all the time and apart from that there is nothing else
running really.

ince · 13 May 2012 at 20:51

Happened to me in them past. I ignored it and it's not appeared again.

Ohlawll · 13 May 2012 at 22:24

I get it now and again when I've closed down a game. I've no idea what causes it but its nothing to be worried about

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Maybe there is a registry option that could disable it from checking however I haven't had the time to go find out.

Collider · 13 May 2012 at 22:50

Oddly enough I had this on my old laptop using W7 when I switched applications (having tried to open a game on it, why I did that when it was so puny I know not but my main PC had blown at the time, this is my only excuse).

I read on another forum, via Google (I think it was Tom's Hardware, hope its ok to mention that) that you could right click the Game's exe file and select 'Disable desktop composition' which makes it switch to basic Windows while the game runs and that fixed it (didn't help the game of course).

I couldn't find reference to a definitive cause but some people suggested it happens when switching from full screen apps like games back into windows when it is keeping Aero going. I haven't seen it on my new PC at all.