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Performance hit after shutting down - ymo1965 - 08-29-2014
Greetings,
I have noticed while using the latest developer versions that when shutting down Dolphin something still seems to be resident in memory because
if I load up an explorer window, grab it with my mouse pointer and move from side to side, there is a lot of lag going on. I am using a 3D monitor
running at 120hz and normally moving windows around the screen is smooth as butter, but after using Dolphin its very jerky indeed. If I reset my
pc and try again (before) using Dolphin, it's back to it's smoothness again. I have no other programs running apart from the usual win7 taskbar
background tasks (anti-virus etc).
Oh, I have also noticed this behaviour while scrolling my browser window (firefox) up & down with the mouse wheel. Jerky again unless I reset pc.
I've looked at the task manager and can't see anything obvious.
I was wondering if other users could fire there Dolphin up, quit and try the same experiment.
Just wanted to be sure, this is driving me crazy!
TIA
RE: Performance hit after shutting down - DJBarry004 - 08-29-2014
It could also happen because of overheating. Get HWmonitor and post your temps while running Dolphin.
RE: Performance hit after shutting down - ymo1965 - 08-29-2014
No need as this happens without a game running. Just need to load up dolphin and then quit. This seems to be about the emulator itself and not about
the games. Besides, I have a big heatsink, Coolmaster Storm case, good airflow and all temps I see (using RealTemp) are way below there peak level.
No worries. Thanks for the reply.