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Why is PC so smooth after a reformat but slowly starts lagging?
Posted: 13 Dec 2022, 00:52
by woodyfly
After a reformat my games are visibly less stuttery, it's like every frame is being rendered. Input lag is lower. Hit reg is better. After maybe a few days or weeks, slowly the games start looking more laggy, input lag up the ass, everyone looks like theyre prefiring you and it just feels awful. Does windows push some kind of shenanigans in the background or something wtf
Re: Why is PC so smooth after a reformat but slowly starts lagging?
Posted: 13 Dec 2022, 07:29
by assombrosso
This is the secret I’ll never know the answer for, but tbh maybe in 5 years we will
Re: Why is PC so smooth after a reformat but slowly starts lagging?
Posted: 13 Dec 2022, 12:23
by Bobo
you could always try something like DeepFreeze, to prevent changes happening to your OS, it will remain the same even after reboot.
Re: Why is PC so smooth after a reformat but slowly starts lagging?
Posted: 14 Dec 2022, 16:23
by delve
maybe something is slowly adjusting latencies for stability purposes and it resets with new install.
Re: Why is PC so smooth after a reformat but slowly starts lagging?
Posted: 29 Dec 2022, 22:02
by mirh
It's just you installing other programs and whatnot, each of them with some probability of disturbance (if they are running, that is).
If you stop them from starting (through a diagnostic boot in msconfig for instance) there's nothing that you cannot restore.
90% of times it's just enough to look for pesky processes in the task manager (and for the remaining you can dig into WPA).
Re: Why is PC so smooth after a reformat but slowly starts lagging?
Posted: 31 Dec 2022, 23:04
by assombrosso
mirh wrote: ↑29 Dec 2022, 22:02
It's just you installing other programs and whatnot, each of them with some probability of disturbance (if they are running, that is).
If you stop them from starting (through a diagnostic boot in msconfig for instance) there's nothing that you cannot restore.
90% of times it's just enough to look for pesky processes in the task manager (and for the remaining you can dig into WPA).
Not true I’m afraid to say, I disabled all services and updates and don’t download anything yet I get this lag after 30-40 minutes
Re: Why is PC so smooth after a reformat but slowly starts lagging?
Posted: 01 Jan 2023, 10:56
by mirh
It seems almost too obvious that if the first half a hour is fine, but then not, something still must have happened.
As I said, msconfig is pretty much a guarantee to be sure to have forget nothing (even though it has been a bit nerfed in W10, and programs have to be separately switched off from the task manager).
Aside of that I guess you could be thermal throttled somewhere, but you'll have already checked that by now.
Re: Why is PC so smooth after a reformat but slowly starts lagging?
Posted: 01 Jan 2023, 20:07
by andrelip
I will add my experience to the discussion. While I did a clean install and created a snapshot, and used deep freeze to reset the HD changes in every reboot, I still experienced issues with latency in CS. Even without installing any additional apps or programs, just the drivers, the system did not run smoothly. This suggests that there may be other factors at play when it comes to latency issues, and it may not always be solved by a clean install and resetting changes.
Re: Why is PC so smooth after a reformat but slowly starts lagging?
Posted: 01 Jan 2023, 20:09
by assombrosso
andrelip wrote: ↑01 Jan 2023, 20:07
I will add my experience to the discussion. While I did a clean install and created a snapshot, and used deep freeze to reset the HD changes in every reboot, I still experienced issues with latency in CS. Even without installing any additional apps or programs, just the drivers, the system did not run smoothly. This suggests that there may be other factors at play when it comes to latency issues, and it may not always be solved by a clean install and resetting changes.
Old information, we already made threads about this 2 years ago
Re: Why is PC so smooth after a reformat but slowly starts lagging?
Posted: 01 Jan 2023, 20:35
by andrelip
assombrosso wrote: ↑01 Jan 2023, 20:09
andrelip wrote: ↑01 Jan 2023, 20:07
I will add my experience to the discussion. While I did a clean install and created a snapshot, and used deep freeze to reset the HD changes in every reboot, I still experienced issues with latency in CS. Even without installing any additional apps or programs, just the drivers, the system did not run smoothly. This suggests that there may be other factors at play when it comes to latency issues, and it may not always be solved by a clean install and resetting changes.
Old information, we already made threads about this 2 years ago
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. However, it looks like the information you mentioned is not present in this thread and people have only mentioned deep freeze as a potential solution. It's possible that this information was discussed in a different thread, but it's not relevant to this one. Additionally, your account was created in Nov 2021, so you may not have been a part of the conversation when it was originally discussed. It's always important to check for updated information and contribute to the discussion in an appropriate way.