Bad frame rate on all games since installing windows 8

Discussion in 'Operating Systems' started by dmakinde, May 17, 2013.

  1. moab600

    moab600 Ancient Guru

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    My griff with 8 is that Borderlands 2 works with awesome fps drops, and PPSSPP emulator although 60fps steady at tekken 6, does seems a bit hitchy at times, NONE of those happen of 7(tried many driver, inf updates, bios stuff etc... borderlands 2 is problematic game but too good to give up :D
     
  2. dsbig

    dsbig Ancient Guru

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    Found something interesting and depressing.

    in windows 8 dwm.exe is forced to run all the TIME and this is causing issue with games.

    dwm has always been a problem with games. but with windows 7, dwm will change to work with games.

    games that use ddraw need dwm to change in order to run correctly. and windows 8 dwm doesnt change.

    I got this info from some devs that are having problems with programming code that use ddraw and having bad performance and they are getting told to recode the game for directx instead.

    there is also some problems with framework code being slower on windows 8.

    which in turn could be effecting games. including borderlands.

    in windows 7 is was noticed when a game wasnt compatible with dwm, that aero would disable. but the dwm code was changed so much, that now it doesnt switch for games. even though aero is not there. it still has to change it running mode.
     
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