So every once in awhile Windows will give me a pop up saying that my computer’s performance is slow and would I like to turn off aero. Apparently this is triggered when you get low on vram from a few searches I did but I’m not using any vram at all looking at PrecisionX. Does anyone know why it could be telling me this if none of my monitoring software shows any issues? I’d prefer not to just turn it off but I don’t want it popping up every few hours when there’s nothing wrong.
Hmm. I’ve never encountered that particular issue before. Are you having any other problems? Are you seeing errors in your event log? When did this start occurring? Was it after you installed something in particular? Often times when you start seeing weird issues, it coincides with something else that was installed (intentionally or otherwise). You might try uninstalling any recently installed programs, and if that fixes it, install them one by one again, giving time between each one to see which one causes the issue. You could also try a virus scan, though I haven’t heard of any malware causing this to happen before.
If you haven’t already, I’d also try running some additional hardware diagnostics, particularly on your RAM and hard drive. Memtest86+ is a good free memory tester, just let it run overnight since some memory problems can come up rather infrequently but still cause problems. Seagate and Western Digital both offer free HDD diagnostics that can be made into bootable disks or run from Windows, with those make sure to run long tests.
And as a side note, turning off Aero to improve performance actually is something people recommend, mostly when trying to boost gaming performance on really low-end computers.
My computer isn’t really low end though and like I said it’s using pretty much no resources. Sometimes I do set it to turn off when playing games but you can’t seem to do that for 64 bit games.
I’ll try some of the stuff you mentioned Orpheon. I’ve had a few times recently where my computer apparently lost power and that’s shown up in the event log but occasionally there are just surges here and there so I don’t think that’s strange really. And I haven’t installed anything new that I would think would cause anything like this.
Edit: I also want to make sure I point out that this isn’t common but it does happen. I think I’ve seen it 3-4 times in the last few months.
You could also try a clean install of new video drivers. Corrupted drivers can cause wonky things to happen too.
I get this frequently playing Sleeping Dogs for some reason. Don’t think it’s happened with any other game.
SD runs quite smoothly and I’m sure I have more than enough VRAM for the settings I play it on.
I’ve tried various things (registry edits, etc.) to try to permanently disable the message but it still shows up :meh:
Sleeping Dogs actually uses a lot of vram. Especially if you play with ssaa, which you will be if you’re using any aa setting other than the lowest. I think entirely maxed out it uses more than 2GB vram.
I have 4GB VRAM and only use 1920x1080 with high AA when I’m actually playing the game
Also I’ve done silly stuff in other games without Windows complaining (eg. Tomb Raider benchmark at 5760x3240 with 4xSSAA…)
What are your specs? It’s probably something with your drivers or a resource-hogging program youre running.
What’s with all the old tread resurrection? Have you looked at their dates before posting?
Nope, he’s resurrected dead threads everywhere though.
Well I mean this issue isn’t fixed so if anyone has any ideas it would be good. Though the computer having the issue isn’t working right now so I can’t really do anything.
Clear the CMOS and sprinkle fairy dust on it.
Install Windows XP, it doesn’t have the ability to show this message.
XP’s going to be pretty useless for gaming in the coming years with all the DX11 and 64 bit games that’ll be coming out.
I’m pretty sure sersoft was joking.
Yeah, a quick Google search says basically there is no way except to disable Aero, which cannot be done on windows 8, also turn off wallpaper slide show(change to static wallpaper that never changes on its own) and update the games/drivers in case they had a memory leak.
edit: A more detailed Google search brought me tothis message:
I don’t know if it’s gonna work since I’ve never had this message interrupt gameplay and I don’t even have the “Security Center” service running.