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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi,
Today while gaming World of Warcraft on this fairly new machine, I noticed at one computer-power-demanding point that the game's numer of frames per second had dropped to about 15, which is on the threshold of getting unacceptable. Closing the grid agent immediately brought it up to 25 fps. Consequently I've started closing/snoozing the agent whenever a game is running. I was under the assumption that the agent wouldn't affect anything due to its low cpu priority. I'm just curious as to why it does anyway.  I'm aware that the agent has a noteworthy RAM usage; would this be the cause?//Zred |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Zred --
I suspect you are correct in thinking that the memory usage is the culprit. The memory usage of the Grid and of your game program are probably causing pages to be swapped in and out of memory adversely affecting both your game and very likely the Grid application as well. Your solution of snoozing the grid application is probably the best available unless you want to invest in a lot more RAM for you system. Best regards, |
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