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Windows 10: Finding the source of random slowdowns that happen even without a network connection?

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LegoTekFan486

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I have a motherboard that isn't Windows 11 compatible - at least, not without a BIOS update. However, I have left well enough alone because I have a number of older games I still play, that I anticipate some of them will not work anymore if I were to upgrade to Windows 11. All when the newer apps I actually want to use, are perfectly fine on Windows 10.

However, recently, I have been having random slowdowns, which I initially thought were network related, because it was things like online videos having problems.

Unfortunately, even games like FTL: Faster Than Light, or Streets of Rogue, are having problems. There isn't enough environmental background stuff like in Minecraft that I've had any problems with those games in the past.

I have tried even turning off WiFi when not actively using it (which is probably a good idea anyway because, old system - and, as a further precaution, important / sensitive stuff is now only done through, or stored on, my Win11 computer - both my Win10 desktop and my Win11 laptop have backups that are physically independent of each other)

I looked in Process Monitor (procmonitor64.exe), and tried filtering out successful operations so that only things generating an inordinate number of error messages would show up. However, nothing really pointed to any specific app - or, for that matter, to Windows itself or anything that would be reinstalled "with" it if I were to take the nuclear option.

Some of the games / older programs I use on the Win10 machine are old enough that they haven't been updated since years before I started seeing the local equivalent of "lag spikes" and those are the ones I'd want to use here, and deal with finding a newer "replacement / equivalent" once my Win10 machine actually dies (as in, a motherboard or GPU failure)

I did try a few benchmarking softwares to see if any specific thing would cause a greater degree of slowdown (or a BSOD for that matter) while also checking temperatures during / after the benchmark.

Any other ideas?
 
Shoganai said:
Maybe your storage drive is starting to crap out. You can check it with this: https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskinfo/

How old is the PC? Have you ever upgraded the drive? Is it a hard drive or SSD?
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The drive is a Crucial 2Tb, NVME SSD.

Also went ahead and used Crystal Disk Info like you said, no errors / warnings are showing up for the drive.

I had previously used AOMEI partition manager to do a surface test (checking for "bad sectors" or whatever an SSD calls it) not only on this SSD (which is the boot drive) but on the secondary bulk storage which is a hard drive.
 
did you test it?
do you have the newest available chipset and video drivers install?
ps: i havent run into anything yet that works on 10 but not 11.
 
pendragon1 said:
did you test it?
do you have the newest available chipset and video drivers install?
ps: i havent run into anything yet that works on 10 but not 11.
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Yes, I did the surface test on both disks. That was before I had posted this.

I'll try checking for chipset and video driver updates.

That didn't come to mind initially, because I would have expected something like a new application having problems with an older version of a driver (or, an OS update where the driver in question didn't also get updated at the same time - thus the date of the update would have coincided with the start of these problems. Oddly, no apps so far are completely freezing or quitting to desktop)
 
LegoTekFan486 said:
Yes, I did the surface test on both disks. That was before I had posted this.

I'll try checking for chipset and video driver updates.

That didn't come to mind initially, because I would have expected something like a new application having problems with an older version of a driver (or, an OS update where the driver in question didn't also get updated at the same time - thus the date of the update would have coincided with the start of these problems. Oddly, no apps so far are completely freezing or quitting to desktop)
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Windows will update hardware drivers, unless you explicitly tell it not to... Most of the time.. you'll want to turn this policy on to "not include drivers with windows updates"
There are so many times where Windows decides it wants to update the GPU drivers, and then SHTF.

Unless you have Windows 10/11 Home.. it should look like this -
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