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VincentVanGozer

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  1. So, after a long break (remodeling, had no time to fiddle with this), I appear to have this sorted out. Even though I'd gone into the advance power settings in windows and told it to never hibernate the disk, the disk drive was still powering down. I ended up installing KeepAliveHD (http://keepalivehd.codeplex.com/) and set it to write to the c: drive every 10 seconds. Bingo, slowdown problem is solved - I don't have to hit a key on the keyboard to un-slow the system anymore when I'm gaming with a gamepad. I can't recall, since it's been awhile since I've been inside that case, but I believe the drive is a western digital "green" drive - it probably has some sort of overriding power-conservation setting. I imagine I'm not the only person who has, or will run into this. KeepAliveHD is a handy little program - thankfully, totally free.
  2. While I truly do appreciate the concern, I actually do computer security as part of my job, and am responsible for keeping around 10,000 systems virus free on a daily basis - so I'm definitely not worried about this PC, because of the way it's configured. It doesn't go online, save for Steam, and Launchbox looking for updates. Heck, as it's using a roaming profile on a windows domain, I add the games to launchbox from another PC entirely (which is heavily secured), as all the roms for classic gaming reside on a NAS. Traffic in and out is inspected at a hardware firewall. The PC where I'm encountering this issue is very much dedicated to only the task of playing games with a gamepad (there is zero web browsing at all), and nothing else, so I have no stress about security or updates. The install on this PC is only about 3 weeks old, and prior to having Windows Update disabled, it was brought completely up to date. The reason I disabled Windows Update is the same reason there's no antivirus installed - minimize all disk I/O. I don't want Windows Update caching updates locally prior to install. The issue is something to do with OS or hardware settings (it's reproduceable outside of launchbox) - I'm just at a loss, as it's something I've not run into before.
  3. Unfortunately, it occurs even when I launch games without using launchbox. I don't have it in the system startup, so it's not memory resident. But I'm definitely going to uncheck that - thank you!
  4. So, not necessarily launchbox related, but it occurs when using launchbox... I repurposed my old desktop into a launchbox-dedicated system, hooked up to the TV. It's running Windows 8.1, and the gamepad is the Xbox360 controller. What I've noticed is that when I'm playing a game with the gamepad, after a few minutes the system gets incredibly choppy and slow (this is any game - from playing in FCEUX or SNES9X or PCSX2, up to windows games like Borderlands 2 or Deus Ex). This is a system that runs with Windows Update disabled and no anti-virus, because I want it to have as much resources available for gaming. At first, I'd hit ctrl-shift-esc to bring up the task manager, and see if something was eating up resources, but there wasn't. What I discovered is that all I had to do was hit any key on the keyboard - space, letter, number - and instantly it would come back to normal speed... until it happens again in a few minutes. All the power-saving settings are disabled (even the advanced settings, regarding cooling of CPU) - I thought it might be the disk powering down, but it doesn't appear to be as a result of power-saving settings. Of course, if I'm gaming with a mouse and keyboard, it never happens, because... well... keyboard. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! :) System specs: AMD Athlon II X4 630 8 GB memory 7200 RPM SATA-2 1 TB drive (primary) 7200 RPM SATA-2 2 TB drive (secondary, with 12 GB fixed page file)
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