Windows 10: Sluggish windows after gaming

Discus and support Sluggish windows after gaming in Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance to solve the problem; It only seems to happen after I've played Forza Horizon 3 along with the Xbox app. Playing Tom Clancy's Wildlands does not have the same effect.... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance' started by gettheclicker, Dec 5, 2017.

  1. GETTHECLICKER
    gettheclicker Win User

    Sluggish windows after gaming


    It only seems to happen after I've played Forza Horizon 3 along with the Xbox app. Playing Tom Clancy's Wildlands does not have the same effect.

    Drop boxes, context menus, and the icon box on the lower right corner appear empty. Windows sometimes open with only an outline. It takes minutes to open a simple file.

    The cpu and ram ratios run normal at 5% and 5% but it feels like it's running at 100%

    Reboot the computer and everything is fine again.

    I have ran rambooster, chkdsk, sfc, malwarebytes, superantispyware, Ccleaner, Defrag, system clean, and wiped empty space over the span of a few days.


    No errors, no infections, some spyware, and no corrupted files.

    :)
     
    gettheclicker, Dec 5, 2017
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  2. KARENSMITHYT
    karensmithYT Win User

    game very sluggish since updating to windows 10

    game very sluggish since updating to windows 10

    Original title: bejewled blitz
     
    karensmithYT, Dec 5, 2017
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  3. MAZUREK7
    mazurek7 Win User
    DirectDraw emulation still broken in Windows 10

    Kevin,

    You can add Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive to the list.

    Another DDraw game, sluggish and stuttering to the point of not being playable on Windows 10.

    Available from GOG Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive
     
    mazurek7, Dec 5, 2017
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  4. BADFINGER
    Badfinger Win User

    Sluggish windows after gaming

    I suspect some buggy Windows 10 video card driver, I am having some wacky performance in Windows 10 now too after new hardware and a fresh install.
     
    Badfinger, Dec 7, 2017
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  5. GETTHECLICKER
    gettheclicker Win User
    I figured it out. It was a bad video driver. After an update everything
    Is smooth sailing again.
     
    gettheclicker, Dec 7, 2017
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  6. KINGTEZ1984
    kingtez1984 Win User
    Sounds like a page file type of issue. try increasing the size of your page file *Smile
     
    kingtez1984, Dec 7, 2017
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  7. GETTHECLICKER
    gettheclicker Win User
    I think I disabled it. Is it better to have it on?
     
    gettheclicker, Dec 7, 2017
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  8. EDTITTEL
    EdTittel Win User

    Sluggish windows after gaming

    Opinions vary on the pagefile, especially for systems with lots (16 GB or more) of RAM. This Google Search includes some fascinating pointers, that you may want to root around in. Because the page file is there to give the OS room to move stuff in and out of memory to and from disk while the OS and programs are running, I never do away with mine completely. I also do not subscribe to older algorithms that used 1.5 or 2.X memory on disk for paging files. The OS Algorithm page says 3X RAM or 4GB, whichever is greater, for Windows 8.1 memory size, but answers.microsoft.com makes a solid recommendation of "stick with the "Automatically manage paging file size..." option. That's how I do it on my system, too:

    Sluggish windows after gaming [​IMG]

    HTH,
    --Ed--
     
    EdTittel, Apr 5, 2018
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