Windows 10 process monitoring over time

deshepherd · 5 Mar 2018 at 10:04

I've currently got a problem when playing a ProjectCars 2 that while 99% of time graphics are smooth very occasionally (perhaps once every couple of hours) it suddenly drops to what seems like 1 or 2 frames per second for a 3 or 4 second (clearly catestrophic when cornerinng - just about survivable on a straight!).

By the time I can get back out of full screen mode to look at process monitor then while from the performance graphs can see, I think, that there's just been a spike in network activity I'm toio late to see what processes were invovled. Is there a way/tool that keeps a record of the process activity over a period of time so that when this happens I can look at this record to see if I can identify what might have caused the problem.

Alternatively, if anyone has any suggestions on what may be causing the problem or solutions I'd be glad to here - with all the cores on a Ryzen5 I'd have hoped that it would be able to cope with a few "background" tasks at the same time as a main application - especially as I think I've only encountered this problem since I upgraded from 8350+R280 to Ryzen5+RX580 (though, as another factor, a bunch of PC2 updates were applied at the same time as the upgrade)

Glanza · 5 Mar 2018 at 10:25

How much ram have you got?

jpaul · 5 Mar 2018 at 13:38

process monitor gives all process recording capability ... but I would also slow down update rate on process explorer to find out which processes had a big IO/other delta,
once you have its name process monitor can log http/internet addresses for that process (too expensive to use on all)

edit THE process monitor that is

deshepherd · 5 Mar 2018 at 16:11

Glanza said:
How much ram have you got?

16GB ... Teamgroup 3200 8Pack version

Glanza · 5 Mar 2018 at 16:12

What sort of temps are you getting?

deshepherd · 5 Mar 2018 at 16:14

jpaul said:
process monitor gives all process recording capability ... but I would also slow down update rate on process explorer to find out which processes had a big IO/other delta,
once you have its name process monitor can log http/internet addresses for that process (too expensive to use on all)

edit THE process monitor that is

Thanks ... I need to read up on the capabilities of process monitor! Also, dawned on me that I may be able to get more info by running PC2 in windowed mode with a monitor window next to it so that if I can the slow down in that mode I can immediately look at the monitor wihtou needing to switch to desktop.