Significant Performance issue when using Alt-Tab

Elf_Boy

In brief, more details available on req.

Win 10 x64, FX 8350, GTX 680 (4GB), 24GB, Asus 990fx

I am getting acceptable and decent performance in game. Have not teamed up or done any group activity since starting up again so that is subject to change.

When I tab out of ESO my desktop and other applications are significantly impacted. Takes 5 or more minutes for the task manager to open even.

System specs are identical to when I played before with only two differences. I was, prior, on win 8.1 and had the game installed on my raid 0 ssd (boot drive), it is instead on a large sata 3 magnetic HD.

I suspect some sort of interaction between the game and win 10 is causing the issue.

Does anyone else experiance this? Is there a fix or work around? Short of quitting the game every time I need to respond to a text on steam, look something up, give pandora attention or any of the many other things I might want to do on my computer while playing.

Thank you

Jediarmy

Elf_Boy wrote: »

In brief, more details available on req.

Win 10 x64, FX 8350, GTX 680 (4GB), 24GB, Asus 990fx

I am getting acceptable and decent performance in game. Have not teamed up or done any group activity since starting up again so that is subject to change.

When I tab out of ESO my desktop and other applications are significantly impacted. Takes 5 or more minutes for the task manager to open even.

System specs are identical to when I played before with only two differences. I was, prior, on win 8.1 and had the game installed on my raid 0 ssd (boot drive), it is instead on a large sata 3 magnetic HD.

I suspect some sort of interaction between the game and win 10 is causing the issue.

Does anyone else experiance this? Is there a fix or work around? Short of quitting the game every time I need to respond to a text on steam, look something up, give pandora attention or any of the many other things I might want to do on my computer while playing.

Thank you

right click on the game go on properties tab>> local files click "Verify integrity of game cache"
see if that works for you.

Azarath_tiberius

What are your graphic settings? I used to have the same problem on my old pc and my workaround was to to change my Display mode to Windowed (fullscreen). I didnt have the same fps as fullscreen but it made alt + tab much easier & faster.

Also an unrelated side note, you 're better of using Win + tab. Lets say you are crafting 20 potions or something and you want to change to an other application. If you use alt + tab you cancel whatever you're doing in game, but that's not the same with win + tab :P

Elf_Boy

Jediarmy wrote: »

Elf_Boy wrote: »

In brief, more details available on req.

Win 10 x64, FX 8350, GTX 680 (4GB), 24GB, Asus 990fx

I am getting acceptable and decent performance in game. Have not teamed up or done any group activity since starting up again so that is subject to change.

When I tab out of ESO my desktop and other applications are significantly impacted. Takes 5 or more minutes for the task manager to open even.

System specs are identical to when I played before with only two differences. I was, prior, on win 8.1 and had the game installed on my raid 0 ssd (boot drive), it is instead on a large sata 3 magnetic HD.

I suspect some sort of interaction between the game and win 10 is causing the issue.

Does anyone else experiance this? Is there a fix or work around? Short of quitting the game every time I need to respond to a text on steam, look something up, give pandora attention or any of the many other things I might want to do on my computer while playing.

Thank you

right click on the game go on properties tab>> local files click "Verify integrity of game cache"
see if that works for you.

Nice thought, however I do not own the game through Steam.

Elf_Boy

Azarath_tiberius wrote: »

What are your graphic settings? I used to have the same problem on my old pc and my workaround was to to change my Display mode to Windowed (fullscreen). I didnt have the same fps as fullscreen but it made alt + tab much easier & faster.

Also an unrelated side note, you 're better of using Win + tab. Lets say you are crafting 20 potions or something and you want to change to an other application. If you use alt + tab you cancel whatever you're doing in game, but that's not the same with win + tab :P

I am at 5760*1080 with most settings maxed and a few like water reflections near max.

I dont think the in game settings are causative.

I have done some more searching and found I am not alone with this issue and using either non-full screen or the win key to go to the desktop can help.

I'll try the win key in a bit.

Elf_Boy

I used the win key to go to desktop last night.

At first it seemed everything was ok, after a few minutes everything started to bog down and become less responsive.

I'd guess there is a process that is not playing well with others, something that should be shutting down and sleeping when the game loses focus is going nuts or crashing.

I am not in a place to check if this is just happening with win 10 or is it other versions as well?

Sharee

Yep, same experience after switching from windows 8.1 to windows 10.

I found out it sometimes doesn't do this if i use winkey+D (minimize all apps and show desktop) instead of alt-tabbing.
Also, the issue seems only present when running ESO in native fullscreen. If you choose fullscreen(windowed), alt-tabbing works normally.(ESO has a bit worse performance tho)

Elf_Boy

Thank you for the information!

In 8.1 running out of full screen was not an option. My poor GTX 680 was at 99%+.

I'll see how it goes in 10. Maybe the newer dx/os/driver will help.