VincentVanGozer
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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.
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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!
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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)
System slowdown when gaming with a gamepad
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