Wallpaper engine breaks maximized window mode FPS

[Magius1337]

for the longest time I had issues with not getting 60fps in maximized windowed games until I tried setting wallpaper engine to pause on all screens, leaving them on somehow caps the FPS around 30 for some reason

thouht I'd throw this out there incase anyone needs help

[Grey]

I turn off wallpaper engine before I load any games

[Biohazard]

If the other wallpapers are still animating then it will affect performance, there is no way around that. But it sounds like you might have a heavy wallpaper if it has such a big impact or that some DLL hook like Nvidia Share causes huge problems between Wallpaper Engine and the game.

I would recommend to set them to 'pause all' like you have now. This is not the default option, because it was unexpected by so many people, but I would recommend that.

Setting it to 'stop' while playing is equivalent to turning it off completely, it will free all memory and resources save for a few MB of RAM, which would unlikely have any kind of impact on performance.

[Magius1337]

Originally posted by Biohazard:

If the other wallpapers are still animating then it will affect performance, there is no way around that. But it sounds like you might have a heavy wallpaper if it has such a big impact or that some DLL hook like Nvidia Share causes huge problems between Wallpaper Engine and the game.

I would recommend to set them to 'pause all' like you have now. This is not the default option, because it was unexpected by so many people, but I would recommend that.

Setting it to 'stop' while playing is equivalent to turning it off completely, it will free all memory and resources save for a few MB of RAM, which would unlikely have any kind of impact on performance.

I've tried several wallpapers and I don't think it's a performance issue but somehow the fps on the screen is getting capped at 30fps or something

[Biohazard]

Is it a problem with G-SYNC/FreeSync maybe if you have that?

Since you are talking about fullscreen windowed games, I guess it cannot be V-SYNC, since that's not available? Otherwise I would have guessed you dip just under 60 and due to V-SYNC it goes down all the way to 30.

If neither helps, try looking for hooks. If you have some graphcis hook that intrudes both programs then anything could happen.

[Magius1337]

no there's no g sync or free sync or adaptive enabled
if it helps im running on 3 screens
it's not a performance issue since the FPS isn't fluctuating but is getting capped at 30 fps whenever i enable wallpaper engine

[Biohazard]

Please post this log: https://steamcommunity.com/app/431960/discussions/1/3307213006836797842/

and which wallpapers you are using exactly.