Windows Image Acquisition causing stuttering in games

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  1. Monchis

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    Windows Image Acquisition causing stuttering in games (It was just lazy sb memory)

    Hey guys, I found the culprit of stuttering in games which used to happen just because my computer was turned on for a few hours. I disabled that thing in windows services and my games have been running normal and smooth for a couple of weeks now, check that up if you have similar problems.

    Update.- I found out that the problem was more related to having a fixed pagefile, 4gb seems to be too little now under win10 even when some games like f1 2015 use less than 3gb of physical memory, they ask for 6gb of virtual memory. I set the PF to 9gb and the hiccups in f1 2015 are gone!, I used to think it was suffering because of the 2gb of vram (osd shows 2025mb) but nope :banana:

    Update 2.- Actually it was some win10 lazy standby memory management. I was able to reproduce the problem by launching some games and swapping displays like I always do, hiccups started to happen. Only way to fix it was rebooting the system but found the Rammap tool, using empty standby list fixes the issue right away. This other tool does the same but I don´t know how to add a parameter to it, anyone?:

    https://wj32.org/wp/software/empty-standby-list/
     
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  2. BuildeR2

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    Interesting, I'll look into that. Do you have GeForce Experience installed and what driver version are you on?
     
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    I don´t install gfe, also I don´t use image devices so I don´t know what was triggering the WIA on. I noticed this only on the latest couple of drivers but also I updated windows 10 at the same time.
     
  4. Corbus

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    I'm always pro disabling services i don't need, even if i don't have any stutters i'll disable it, so thanks.

    Wish there was a list somewhere with all these "useless" services with a description,or even better,some software that does it, so i don't have to search each and every one to find out details about it and disable it if i don't need it.
     

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    http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/
     
  6. AsiJu

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    WIA is enabled by default. Have it disabled already but good find!
     
  7. CalculuS

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    How does something like windows imaging architecture even effects gaming?
     
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    Interesting, will test when back at home. Lets see if it affects latency as well.
     
  10. CalculuS

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    Service that just sits in the background eating system resources.

    PS: If you disable the service certain features in Paint.Net/Adobe Photoshop may stop working since it requires the service.
     

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    It's off on my work machine. Will check at home in the evening.

    Not really accurate, especially in Win10 where a proper app suspend is possible.
     
  12. EdKiefer

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    I don't think blackviper site has proper win10 services setup yet.

    I just upgraded to win10 Pro from win7 pro and this service is set to automatic (running) here.
     
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    WIA set to manual start but it reset itself to automatic start if you use a scanner...
    Will test and report later if WIA stopped helps or not...

    Thanks for info !
     
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    Who knows man, an operating system can be complex, I was reading the other day about dx12 and how (unlike vulkan) it depends on the OS setting point fences on rendering processes so gpus can work efficiently, scary stuff how things can interfere with each other.
     
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    My Photoshop CC 2015 still works just fine with it Disabled.

    Guess ill leave it disabled then.
     

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    What does it actually do? It says "provides image acquisition services for scanners and cameras". So what exactly does "image acquisition" mean in that context?
     
  17. dr_rus

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    Stopped by default at home as well.
     
  18. EdKiefer

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    what is it set to for you, manual ?
     
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    "Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) enables imaging programs, such as Microsoft Picture It! 2000, Kodak Imaging, or Adobe Photoshop, to communicate with imaging devices such as digital cameras and scanners. WIA supports digital still cameras and both low-end and high-end scanners; it also enables you to retrieve still images from IEEE 1394-based digital video (DV) camcorders and Universal Serial Bus (USB) Web cameras."

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/266348

    Monchis, does any of this sound like something you have? I wonder if there's some application running in the background that is processing a web cam or something all the time.
     
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    I'll look into this.
     

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