LEGO Games Keep on Slowing Down

[Everybody do the flop]

Whenever I play LEGO games now, they have weird moments of slow down, then back to normal speed. It's really annoying and I don't know how to fix it!

AMD Radeon R9 290
16GB RAM
4.00Ghz
Drivers are up to date

Keep in mind, I can play most other games fine, including Fallout 4. Though Yooka Laylee has the same issues, but WAY more frequently.

[Everybody do the flop]

Can anyone help me?!

[BinarySemaphore]

Games like Lego Worlds are swapping memory to disk frequently due to how the map is handled.
I've also noticed this game autosaves everytime you pickup items etc...

I/O, even with some SSDs and if not on it's own thread, can block processsing.
You would experience this as frame loss or slow down depending on the frequency of disk writes.
I suggest running a quick health check and read/write benchmark on your main drive.

Of course, games are optimized very differently from one another.
Bethesda isn't great at this, hence my first thoughts are on your drive.

If not the drive, check to make sure background programs/services aren't periodically eating away at your CPU utilization.
Windows has a native profiler you could run for a few hours to get a good picture of background activity.

Best of luck.

[Everybody do the flop]

Hardly any CPU gets used up when video games aren't running, aprox 7-10%.

My biggest issue with slowdown with LEGO games is Marvel Super Heroes, but it can fluctuate a lot.

[BinarySemaphore]

Lego games also love their motion blur and other shaders.
Not sure how Tt writes their sharders, but sometimes they're optimized for one graphics card over another.
Happens often (e.g. Witcher 3 - Nvidia HairWorks and AMD: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-does-nvidia-hairworks-really-sabotage-amd-performance)

Have you tried turning off motion blur, any other settings?

[Everybody do the flop]

I do have motion blur off, along with depth and bloom.

[AndyCalling]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/332310/discussions/0/1333474229068474231/?tscn=1495580456

If you're having the lag spikes, don't listen to all the guff people spout about CPUs or 'optimization' or drive speed. Read this thread and you will solve your issues.

This is not a performance issue, people. Lag spikes like this are nothing to do with how 'powerful' your PC is.

[BinarySemaphore]

Good thinking Andy and well done on the linked thread.

Conflicting processes is a good call.

I've been playing Lego games since the original Star Wars and Indian Jones, but had never heard of this issue before.
I usually run lightweight, so I've been lucky to avoid it.

Windows 10 Game DVR makes sense, but I'm curious what resources Lego games are competing for to make them so vulnerable.
From the sounds of your discussion, maybe HID interrupts (interest peaked).

[AndyCalling]

Yea, this issue is marked by the fact it affects EVERY Lego game, even the earliest ones that are so light weight you can run them on cheap laptops. That's the clue that tells me this is the lag spike bug and not a performance issue. It seems to be caused by input utilities most, such as mouse software, but I wouldn't count out other software getting in the way. Logitech's Setpoint causes this but other brands can also cause it.

[Everybody do the flop]

Originally posted by AndyCalling:

Yea, this issue is marked by the fact it affects EVERY Lego game, even the earliest ones that are so light weight you can run them on cheap laptops. That's the clue that tells me this is the lag spike bug and not a performance issue. It seems to be caused by input utilities most, such as mouse software, but I wouldn't count out other software getting in the way. Logitech's Setpoint causes this but other brands can also cause it.

I don't use the mouse to play LEGO games, also, I can't find any Logitech.exe, so IDK what's causing the slowdown on mine!

[Revalopod]

Pff I have a GTX 1070, and 16GB DDR4 ram @ 2666mhz
AND LOOK AT THIS!!!!!!!!!
unnacceptable. Watch Dogs 2 runs smoother at max settings and 8k downscaled LMAO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzyyX8Fwj9o

[Everybody do the flop]

Mine runs like that if I play a LEGO game for 2 hours.