PC performance degrades after booting up games?

[abluntlife]

My dolphin used to run games fine... until recently. Now every time I boot up a game, my laptop's performance degrades/kind of lags(?). It doesn't necessarily lag, but everything becomes delayed with some graphic glitches. For instance, any folder I open up is just a blank white square or sometimes there's nothing at all. But the laptop runs just fine... which is really frustrating to me. Keep in mind this effect becomes permanent until I reboot the laptop, and closing dolphin doesn't help. Can someone help me out? I can't find anything online about this.

Thanks.  

[ExtremeDude2]

Have you checked things like CPU usage/temp, power mode, etc?

[abluntlife]

(08-13-2017, 10:55 AM)ExtremeDude2 Wrote: Have you checked things like CPU usage/temp, power mode, etc?

Yeah, that's the first thing I checked. Cpu, temp, memory seems stable, like 10% cpu, 60-66 f, and only 20% memory when running a game on dolphin. Everything else seems fine from what I'm reading, that's what's irritating me.

[KHg8m3r]

Are you running a High Performance power profile for Dolphin in Nvidia Control Panel? They can get reset after GPU updates.

[abluntlife]

(08-13-2017, 11:37 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: Are you running a High Performance power profile for Dolphin in Nvidia Control Panel? They can get reset after GPU updates.

Funny thing is, I tried updating my GPU and noticed a reset. It just so happened that my power was on high as well lol.

Wonder what could have caused dolphin to behave like this? The game runs fine and everything besides windows explorer... and backtracking to the root of it seems impossible. Haven't booted up dolphin in a while so I wouldn't know what might of caused this.

Regardless, thanks for the helpful bit.

[abluntlife]

(08-13-2017, 10:32 AM)abluntlife Wrote: My dolphin used to run games fine... until recently. Now every time I boot up a game, my laptop's performance degrades/kind of lags(?). It doesn't necessarily lag, but everything becomes delayed with some graphic glitches. For instance, any folder I open up is just a blank white square or sometimes there's nothing at all. But the laptop runs just fine... which is really frustrating to me. Keep in mind this effect becomes permanent until I reboot the laptop, and closing dolphin doesn't help. Can someone help me out? I can't find anything online about this.

Thanks.  

OK? Dolphin suddenly decided to fix itself. I'm not sure what happened, but this aint good because I still don't know what was wrong with it. Hopefully, it'll go with the flow and keep this permanent... not temporary. Will be sure update if anything happens, till then thanks guys for the help.