Windows Personalization features can cause game lag

[naomha]

Took me a couple days to figure it out but I had downloaded the CP background photos to my desktop and had them slide-showing every 5 minutes. Turns out this was exactly when my game would lag (in game) and cause me to temporarily lose control of my character for a second. If I was shooting the gun would keep going off in a blaze of glory. If I was walking I'd all of a sudden stop and then walk without touching the keys or end up sideways or some other issue.

Just an FYI, and hopefully this gets seen as I did a search and didn't see anything posted on this, but if you have a background photo(s) cycling through on your desktop and they're often and you experience this momentary lag then changing the slideshow to cycle every hour or longer makes the "lag" issue completely disappear (or until your photos cycle once again). Cheers.

 

[Mr_Imbers]

Thank you very much! I was having the same issue. I don't mind playing on low ( GPU(970) is a little bit better then minimum requirements. ) First day was fine, come to find out between then to the second play session, i switched my desktop to something that changes every 5 mins. I couldn't for the life of me figure out that desktop background changing so much lag! Again, Thank you SO much!!