system or emulator help

[Meister_anon~Master_o f_None]

I play emulator games recently and they were great, moved quickly and played smooth with little to no issues once i got my settings together.
I have a gba game and a nds game, I was playing fire red on no$ gba and blaze black on desmume 9.11

Everything was fine a few days ago, but just recently like between yesterday and today it seems everything's gone wrong.
I was playing blaze black and then it was extremely choppy and slow, I was getting frame drops going down to 1 or 2 frames per second.
The game would stutter very often and when it didn't it would be very slowed.

This behavior is consistent on both emulators on both games. I was wondering is this because of the new windows update dec 31, that got rid of flash, or am I being crazy here?

I was playing fine into the wee hours of the morning a few days ago, then my computer shut down to update.
Then when I went back to play I started noticing all these issues.

Just checked and I have Windows 10 Build 18363.1256, looking online that's the Dec 9th update i guess.

But could the windows 10 update be the problem slowing my computer? My browser isn't even open and its slow, not just my emulators.


P.s. I didn't mention my graphics options because the emulator worked just fine before and I haven't changed my laptop or graphics card.

 

[Roni]

i don't think Flash was used at all for no$gba and Desmume, so i doubt that's the reason. did you check task manager to see what's hogging up your resources?

 

[Meister_anon~Master_o f_None]

i don't think Flash was used at all for no$gba and Desmume, so i doubt that's the reason. did you check task manager to see what's hogging up your resources?

Thanks for the reply, and I kept it open but I really couldn't figure, I've mostly been only using desmume, when that was running by itself it took about 200-300MB. Memory CPU stayed low so I don't think it was that. and my Memory total was only at 28%,

Which was odd to me, because even running edge which took 2-3GB in memory my usage never seemed to go above 30%, or it barely went down after closing edge.

But it was running great a few days ago, I would keep it on fast forward intermitantly for hours ev training with no problems and no freezes/stutters whatsoever.
While also running multiple tabs in edge.

Now I can't boot it up without frame drops and cant walk two steps without the whole thing lagging out. (even without my browser open)

I was a bit confused about the update thing earlier, my system updated but its not the latest version with all the problems far as I can tell, so I guess its something else.
EDIT

Ok I just booted up again, straight from login, desmume is running at 213MB, and its perfect no probs, 4x fast forward is running smoothly, FPS is at 60 average on normal speed.

I have no idea what happened here. Its back to working as it did.

The only thing I can think of is the in-game season change caused issues or my system was overheating without me knowing. idk.
Taskmanager didn't show any changes, everything was just a bit slow, and then very slow in the emulator.
I'm stumped wish I knew what went wrong and what went right but oh well.

 

[Roni]

Glad to hear it fixed itself. Windows always tends to have those random hiccups in there that I'll never understand. Me for example, lately all my browsers will randomly crash if I keep my pc running for too long without restarts.

Literally just a restart fixes the issue but I don't know what causes it in the first place. It's merely a minor inconvenience at least.

 

[Meister_anon~Master_o f_None]

Glad to hear it fixed itself. Windows always tends to have those random hiccups in there that I'll never understand. Me for example, lately all my browsers will randomly crash if I keep my pc running for too long without restarts.

Literally just a restart fixes the issue but I don't know what causes it in the first place. It's merely a minor inconvenience at least.

Yeah that's strange, it started happening again, but not as bad as before, I'll just keep an eye on it, but yeah I also had my computer on for a long time without restarting or shutting down.

And after some more searching I found that my laptop actually hasn't updated since dec 9th. So what I thought was an update was actually a sudden shutdown. I'm looking into overheating or a problem with the graphic drive. But overall I'll have to put my gaming on hold for a bit, guess I'll just research here instead in the mean time.

So I guess mark this closed or solved for now. Do I have to do anything for that or will that just happen eventually by itself?

 

[Roni]

Yeah that's strange, it started happening again, but not as bad as before, I'll just keep an eye on it, but yeah I also had my computer on for a long time without restarting or shutting down.

And after some more searching I found that my laptop actually hasn't updated since dec 9th. So what I thought was an update was actually a sudden shutdown. I'm looking into overheating or a problem with the graphic drive. But overall I'll have to put my gaming on hold for a bit, guess I'll just research here instead in the mean time.

So I guess mark this closed or solved for now. Do I have to do anything for that or will that just happen eventually by itself?

if it's overheating, probably a cooler pad would help a bit. laptops in general really are awful at cooling for the sake of portability.

if there isn't a "Solved" flair in the Edit sections, you can choose to either just leave this thread open for people in the future to peruse, or ask a mod to lock it. up to you really.

 

[Meister_anon~Master_o f_None]

if it's overheating, probably a cooler pad would help a bit. laptops in general really are awful at cooling for the sake of portability.

if there isn't a "Solved" flair in the Edit sections, you can choose to either just leave this thread open for people in the future to peruse, or ask a mod to lock it. up to you really.

Thanks for all the help/advice Roni, I'll just leave it open. My game has been pretty good recently, so I think i'll find a program to monitor the internal temp and try to actually shut everything down routinely.