Issue with playlists

[Hoppu]

When I use my playlist for my wallpapers i encounter a couple of strange bugs/problems.

1. Whenever a video gets to an end and a new video should start the engine freezes on both my monitors (the playlist is only active on 1 monitor, the other monitor has a single GIF that is looping)
2. When i select a video in the playlist that i want to listen to my 2 screens freeze and i get a major lag spike on my pc for a brief while.
3. When i come back from playing a game in full screen Wallpaper engine either freezes on both screens for a brief while or permanently, opening the engine does not fix it so i have to forcefully exit the software through the task manager and when starting the engine back up I get some major lag spikes.

Those are my most occuring problems with the engine (I would also like to take this opportunity to say that the 'random' option creates a lot of wallpapers that are repeated after eachother in quick succession) these issues have only been popping up recently and i had no problems before (I did not change any settings or anything major while there were no issues)

I don't really know what else i should add but if you require more info then leave a comment and I will try to reply asap.

[Biohazard]

You could try to disable the video hardware acceleration option (since it seems to be related to the video decoder) or make sure that all graphics drivers are up to date, especially the integrated one if you're on a laptop.

The playlist position will completely reset right now when you open the browse window, that could make it appear like wallpapers are repeated.

[Hoppu]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

You could try to disable the video hardware acceleration option (since it seems to be related to the video decoder) or make sure that all graphics drivers are up to date, especially the integrated one if you're on a laptop.

The playlist position will completely reset right now when you open the browse window, that could make it appear like wallpapers are repeated.

I have disabeled the function that you advised me and double checked that my drivers are up-to-date (which they are) and I am also not on a laptop. It helped for about 3 hours where no wallpaper would slow down on either monitor (both were at 60 FPS or 24FPS at all time) but after that period of time my wallpaper on my second monitor is back to freezing or hitting 2-3 FPS at max, this with no other major program open.
I would still get the issue where my monitor would freeze for 10 seconds when it had to switch to a new wallpaper in the playlist.
If this helps i have it set so that the video's are loaded in memory and not from the disk (because i have lots of free and pretty fast RAM)

[Biohazard]

Could you try to not use in-memory and see if that makes a difference? Do you notice that the total amount of RAM increases/is there possibly a memory leak with the in-memory option?

[Hoppu]

i have never checked to see a memory increase but i will try to see if changing it to the other option helps. Just wondering does that make my SSD more full ?? since my SSD has almost no space left

[Hoppu]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

Could you try to not use in-memory and see if that makes a difference? Do you notice that the total amount of RAM increases/is there possibly a memory leak with the in-memory option?

I have set all options to what you recommended but the same issues appear each time, I have also noticed that when i changed the settings of my engine that a few wallpapers got randomly removed from my playlist.

[Biohazard]

Can you download this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o2jth39bcvvej57/ListDlls.zip?dl=0

Then start Wallpaper Engine in 32-bit and run the checkwp.bat file. It should create a file called 'out.txt'. Can you paste that file on www.pastebin.com and share the link here?

With an SSD I would not use in-memory anyway, but no, it won't write anything to it at all, it is just about reading the video.

[Hoppu]

https://pastebin.com/Fsm3gCt7
(I hope that this is the correct link)
Also the reason why i used in-memory is because i frequently write big files to my SSD and don't want any slowdown on my SSD or would it not significantly affect my SSD speed ??

[Biohazard]

Thanks, could you try to disable the Nvidia streaming features in Geforce Experience? I think they are injected: nvspcap.dll and some people had issues with them, so I figure it is worth a try.

Originally posted by NaM.Hopliet:

Also the reason why i used in-memory is because i frequently write big files to my SSD and don't want any slowdown on my SSD or would it not significantly affect my SSD speed ??

It depends on the size of the wallpaper I presume. I don't know of any in-memory issues except for certain formats not working correctly like .wmv. Since it doesn't make a difference with your issue anyway, you can choose of course.

[Hoppu]

well when i tried to fix my share streaming settings my geforce experience crashed and now i can no longer open the share feature of geforce experience .-. I have contacted Nvidia for this issue but can no longer test to see if your suggestion fixed my issue. I will test it as soon as Nvidia fixes the issues with share.
Thank you in advance for all your support and help :) (I will no longer bother you if your suggestion works)

[Hoppu]

hello, sorry to reopen this thread, but a new update from nvidia got pushed and i was able to implement the fix that you suggested and disabled the streamer thing (also updated my driver to the latest version) yet no matter what i do the issues keep occuring, video's keep stuttering and freezing my pc when a new video should start and the looped video on my second screen still only gets 4 FPS max.
Could maybe something else be the root of this issue ?

[Biohazard]

Thanks for trying that out. Could you maybe check the disk load in the task manager when the wallpaper switches? Does it possibly get stuck at 100% for a while or something strange? Same for the CPU usage.

Also, what hardware configuration do you have exactly?

[Hoppu]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

Thanks for trying that out. Could you maybe check the disk load in the task manager when the wallpaper switches? Does it possibly get stuck at 100% for a while or something strange? Same for the CPU usage.

Also, what hardware configuration do you have exactly?

Allright you will find this funny XDD but i wanted to run a benchmark of my pc to give you a good insight to how my pc preformed and to give alongside my specs and after the benchmark all the issues that i had with the wallpapers magically dissapeared and i have not been able to recreate the bug that i had in the past (i even turned on hardware acceleration for video's again and everything runs smooth and fast somehow)
Anyway for future reference i will still post my specs and my benchmark result for if the bug happends again.

CPU: Intel i7 4790@3.60GHz (4cores and 8 threads)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 32 GB DDR3 @ 799MHz
MOTHERBOARD: ASUSTeK H-97-PRO
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 (2GB version)
STORAGE: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO (this is the place where wallpaper engine is stored) and 1 TB Western Digital WD10EZRX-00A8LB0
MONITORS: iiyama Gold Phoenix PLG2888UH (configured to 2560x1440 pixels) and acer X223HQ (configured to 1920x1080 pixels)

I think that that is all that you need ?? (if i forgot something feel free to ask)
also this is the benchmark if you need it
(first test, while wallpaper engine was stuck) http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/3779977
(second test, with a fixed wallpaper engine) http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/3780028

Anyway thank you once again for your fast responses and assistance ^^

[Biohazard]

Thanks, well the specs are definitely good enough and there is nothing strange that I'm seeing. Maybe the bench installed/updated something?

The bench results would indicate a CPU related issue I suppose, although your HDDs results also differ for some reason, even though you said it is installed on the SSD. Hopefully the bug doesn't come back though.