My laptop having performance issues with games.

[CedarBranch]

http://www.lastlegacy.us/forums/viewtop ... t=214#p438

I PM'd Runouw weeks ago, but no response.

I just want to know the issue I'm having when playing ANY games on my laptop. (It even affects Bandicam, sometimes making even it slow to start/finish recording the screen. WTH?)

[l.m]

I just want to know the issue I'm having when playing ANY games on my laptop.

By "any games", you mean "any Flash games"?

[CedarBranch]

The only games I've tested this with were Flash games, but like I said, it also occurs with Bandicam.

I really can't find the pattern here, but I can tell you that this all started while recording this video (though I don't think you'll notice it very well as, at the time, it wasn't as bad): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsNyXYqbUPU (Not to advertise, lol, but thought it could be helpful to know when it started)

At some point while recording the level with those dark clouds, Bandicam started behaving a bit strangely to me; it wouldn't lag while I recorded, but it would take MUCH longer to actually start recording after already clicking the record button, sometimes the same way when ending the recording. SOMETIMES.

And eventually, this behavior started sinking in Super Mario 63's performance, along with Last Legacy. This "lag" would occur when the Shine Sprite(s) would begin to activate. BUT. Eventually this started to affect loading times--NOT Super Mario 63's infamous "loading times," but anything that requires loading (maybe something like what Runouw said about taking a long time loading a relocated source of memory... or whatever it was he said.)




FYI, this problem DOES NOT affect web browsers. Also, I haven't experienced this with videos yet (which makes me happy).

[-BY]

Ever considered using your task manager to monitor your cpu usage?
It's almost certainly your computers fault, though.

[CedarBranch]

Ever considered using your task manager to monitor your cpu usage?
It's almost certainly your computers fault, though.

1) Yes, but I never find anything suspicious other than Google Chrome taking up a lot of CPU (I even tried closing Chrome while playing games, but it's still the same).

2) The thing is that I can't figure out where the fault is on my laptop. I also tried googling my issue with games, but nothing. Nothing. (I kinda thought it could be registry errors causing it, but I keep finding results on Google against that.)






And did I mention that Last Legacy's Level Designer sometimes crashes my entire laptop, forcing me to shut the power off?
AKA, I suggest reading those couple posts through the link in the OP.

[Oranjui]

Chrome is pretty well known for eating up a ton of CPU. You could try switching browsers, or otherwise downloading offline versions of the games you're trying to play.

[CedarBranch]

I've been using the offline versions of the games.

I kinda hope Runouw could explain that "resource in memory" thing, though. I can't seem to find it on Google, but maybe that is the ticket... somehow.

[l.m]

Your computer is taking more time to load the data in memory. Could you tell me the amount of RAM your computer have?

[CedarBranch]

Not sure if I'm looking at the right thing, but:

"Installed memory (RAM): 4 GB (3.47 GB usable)"




EDIT: Holy ♥♥♥♥. Last Legacy is using more than 50% of my CPU usage right now. That is why it crashes.

But that still doesn't explain the random loading time lagging...


EDIT 2: And nearly 500 MB (66%) in memory. WTF? How do I prevent this? Is it because of my level's dimensions being at 850x300? (I need a bunch of space for my level in particular, but maybe I could take it down a bit...)

[CedarBranch]

2000 MB of memory used on Flash Player just after Last Legacy crashed again.










What was that about RAM again?


EDIT: OMG. The more changes I make to my level, the more my CPU usage and memory rise. In fact, it is sky-rocketing! Simply changing the level's dimensions sent the CPU to 96%. Why is Flash Player using so much ♥♥♥♥ memory and stuff!?!


SPECIAL EDIT: Okay. After months upon months of this issue, I just noticed something. Something called "WMI Provider Host" is on my task manager 24/7 and adding to my CPU usage. I Google'd it and found some results that explain a bit of my issue, namely the idling. Doing a scan now...


SPECIAL EDIT 2: Got a few infected files. Not done yet, though...