Games slows down system for multiple reasons

donegl84

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Specs:
I7-6700K 4.00GHz
ASUS Z710 Pro Gaming
EVGA GQ 750W Hybrid Modular 80+ PSU
Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200MHz 32GB
Nvidia MSI GTX 1080
Samsung 960 PRO 1TB M.2
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB
Western Digital 2TB HDD
Noctua NH-D15 Cooler
Windows 10


One of the problems occur when playing moderate demanding games like GTA 5 or something in that range. What happens is that I love to have youtube playing on the second monitor but in some games it suddenly starts to buffer. I know its not my internet connection because when I alt-tab out of the game, the video suddenly continues as normal. This happened often with World of Warcraft when I loaded into another zone. Every time it would start to freeze and skip frames with audio still going. When the loading was done, the video continued as normal. I tried chaning the affinity for that tab in chrome but didnt work 100%.

The other problem is when I alt tab out of certain games for the first time since I launched it. When I alt-tab, the mouse slows down and becomes very sluggish, almost as if its going across the screen on ice. I can move the mouse violently around and a second later it shows on the screen just how I moved the mouse but almost in slow motion. Also when alt-tabbing into a game, the game is very slow for a brief moment before it snaps back in and becomes playable.

Also, I was playing some Modern Warfare 2 the other day and suddenly the game froze for a second. The sound also freezed. When it got back to normal, it ran almost in fast forward for a second.

Any help is appreciated.
 
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I never had GameFirst installed so I installed it. Loaded GTA and I had no problems. No sluggish mouse after alt-tab and no youtube buffer. I uninstalled it and am now running Just Cause 3 with no problems at all!

I hope this fixed it somehow but I will keep testing and see what happens.

donegl84

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No, everything works perfectly when only on youtube and if I have many tabs open at the same time.
 

donegl84

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I never had GameFirst installed so I installed it. Loaded GTA and I had no problems. No sluggish mouse after alt-tab and no youtube buffer. I uninstalled it and am now running Just Cause 3 with no problems at all!

I hope this fixed it somehow but I will keep testing and see what happens.

 
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