PiP == trashed FPS on main - need restart to recover - any idea ?

[Moorea]

so to clarify...

You have 5 sessions on one monitor,

ONEBIG
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When you swap back and forth eventually ONEBIG gets screwed up if it's in it's original PIP slot but 2 3 4 or 5 work fine in that slot and ONEBIG's FPS is correct in background but NOT in foreground?

Yes, ONEBIG is working at maxfps or bgfps (depending on focus) when in 2,3,4,5 but not when back in ONEBIG where it's just trashing, after that point, no amount of clicking or swapping gets back to a point where ONEBIG in ONEBIG works again and exiting all wows and keyclone is the only way to get back to normal

[emesis]

I have something like this happen with some regularity (one window, semi-randomly out of my 5 windows running on 2 screens, goes to like 1 fps and lags the whole system down).

For me, it is 100% fixable by hitting ctrl-alt-delete and then simplying cancelling the popup dialog - this forces all windows to refresh.

I have a separate issue with Keyclone that happens when I do this, however. Whenever I hit ctrl-alt-delete, keyclone (or windows?) seems to get locked into thinking I have the ctrl and alt buttons held down. So, if I type "Z", warcraft is seeing it as ctrl-alt-Z. My workaround to fix this is to go into keyclone, bringup the do-not-pass tab, and tap the ctrl and alt keys while this has the focus - this seems to reset things.

I'm running Windows XP x64, btw.

[elsegundo]

with focus follows mouse, i find that if i mouse over the slave window, the slaves will run at foreground fps rates, leaving the main window to run at bkfps rates.

if its fixed like this, i sometimes minimize everything manually, then open them back up indiviually through the taskbar at the botton of windows. see if that works. good luck.

[Moorea]

emesis:

thanks ! I'll try ctrl-alt-delete to see if that helps !
I noticed when I alt tab or something else like that that keys get stuck in keyclone: I found an easy workaround for that (easier than yours I think) : just press and release alt and then ctrl alone; once to "reset" the state (basically the press will not be doing anything to the window(s) that think it's already pressed but the key up will reset) : one easy way to see that is to have one of your button/macro using [modifier] and you'll see the icon changed on some window; as a visual reminder you need to press alt or control to reset (I have 9 set to be healing stream totem by default and mana spring with modifier; so if I see mana spring icon showing I know something is out of sync)



elsegundo:



for the last time my problem has nothing to do with windows running at
background vs foreground fps - this is a different and minor problem
easily fixed indeed by clicking on the windows (I know you guys try to
be helpful; but please read the problem description...)

[ahnubis]

happens on my pc as well but like others said I PIP swap between all windows I.E shift+f1 then shift+f2 and so on until i get to the 5th window then swap back to my main and the FPS jumps back up to 50FPS.... when my FPS dumps it goes down to 4-6 FPS it can happen a few times during my session, however I don't have any issues with it not fixing it with the aforementioned workaround. I have never had to shut wow down to fix this.

also might want to try turning off SLI if you have it turned on. I had a HUGE FPS issue when SLI was turned on with my PC a Dell xps m1730 x9000 cpu oc to 3.4ghz 4 gigs of ram and dual 8800gtx's

[Greythan]

I had the same problem. If I switched between windows it would often correct. However, in many situations the fastest solution was a reboot.

This is one of the reasons I switched tools to InnerSpace. Not only don't I get session freezes, but the PiP speed changed the way I multibox. Not sure I could go back to something that took fast and reliable session switching out of the equation. I really like KeyClone, but for me there's no comparison. IS flat out makes session (window) swapping an integral part of my play style versus something I tried to avoid utterly when using KeyClone.