Windows 7 stutter SOLVED!!

[mrbinkels]

I noticed I was getting lower frame rates all of a sudden so I did a little research and found that wmpnetwk.exe (Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service) was taking up quite a bit of cpu resources. I initially went into services and stopped it and noticed my cpu went down to 1-2% usage. Ran the built-in ARMA2 benchmark 1 and "recovered" my lost frames. Obviously this service is used for file sharing with my network(specifically my son's xbox 360) I don't use it so I disabled it. It literally made 7 fps difference for my rig.

I did a search here on the forums and didn't see any other posts about this. Figured I'd share, although ymmv.

[jasonnoguchi]

JESUS! Thanks for sharing!

[Mysteryman5150]

Where do you find if this is running in Vista 64 bit

[gulag]

Where do you find if this is running in Vista 64 bit

You can do this with TuneUp2009 is a very good program to optimize performance

[76]

Where do you find if this is running in Vista 64 bit

Have a look here and no software to install, just registry changes

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[Placebo]

Yeah I discovered this was a real resource hog in Windows 7 when I first started using it, there's another thing in Windows 7 (maybe Vista as well not sure) which eats up huge amounts of CPU cycles and RAM for no apparent reason, "enhancements" on audio devices, even if none are selected apparently it has an impact, you need to tick the box "disable all sound effects" for every audio device you have, see pic below

[mrbinkels]

Where do you find if this is running in Vista 64 bit

Easiest way is to type services.msc in the search box under the start button. Then scroll to the bottom and you will see the service there.

This link explains it very well. http://bucarotechelp.com/computers/wintips/92082801.asp

I am not affiliated with that website, I just googled it.

[Potatomasher]

Yeah I discovered this was a real resource hog in Windows 7 when I first started using it, there's another thing in Windows 7 (maybe Vista as well not sure) which eats up huge amounts of CPU cycles and RAM for no apparent reason, "enhancements" on audio devices, even if none are selected apparently it has an impact, you need to tick the box "disable all sound effects" for every audio device you have, see pic below

Thanks a lot for informing that. I have known that services "trick" but never heard from this.

[tommy_tuck]

After weeks of trying to sort out major stutters during gameplay despite high fps
I have finally solved the issue. On going into task manager I noticed that windows media player networking service was sometimes using 80% of the CPU.
I've tried all the tweaks to no effect but after disabling this service I have now just played for two hours with no problems.
I hope this helps someone else because it was certainly driving me mad and I was thinking of reinstalling XP!

Here's a link about this issue

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...5-2f1cb02d5843

[Rexxenexx]

I don't want to poop on this idea, but I believe most people have major stutters because of texture swapping and LOD swapping. Only solved by a faster hard drive. But I agree, the more background processes you stop the better. I've had Vista defrag while I was playing causing me to have a WTF moment. W7 hasn't done anything that stupid so far.

EDIT: I remembered the best thing that worked is msconfig and restarting without extra services. That was on Vista a while back, it should work as good on W7 now.