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Logitech SetPoint software causes major slow down of Wolfenstein: The New Blood.

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Hello,

I once installed this Logitech Driver which manifests itself as SetPoint.exe 
in Task Manager.

I installed it to be able to turn off the side buttons which could be 
accidently pressed when browsing weg pages which causes annoying tab 
switches.

The driver installation was called: setpoint6.61.15_smart.exe

Anyway I noticed how this SetPoint.exe fluctuated while playing the game 
Wolfenstein: The New Blood.

Sometimes SetPoint.exe would take 50% cpu.

Even if it only takes 0% CPU it seems to somehow interfere with the loading 
of this game... and also the playing of this game.

Symptoms are:

1. Major slowdown of the loading of the game levels.

2. Major stutter during video playback.

3. Major stutter while playing the game.

By simply terminating/end the process for SetPoint.exe

The game becomes very well playable, even on GT 520, 64 bit memory bus.

Other tips to speed up the game are:

Set Virtual Texture Cache Size to low.

(Possibly enable compression and cuda acceleration, not sure about this last 
one).

Also turn down lodbias to low.

Also turn everything else too low as well.

The cache size must be turned to low manually/custom settings via advanced.

Just choosing "general low settings" doesn't do it... so make sure it says 
custom.

At the top or bottom of settings is an "apply" option.

Click it to save it... so scroll up or down to find the apply button.

The game itself is a "context switch" resource hog, it can spawn threads 
between 61 to 64 threads.

I think somehow the SetPoint.exe software might be temporarely dead locking 
it or cause other lock contention...

Bye,
  Skybuck. 

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Logitech SetPoint software causes major slow down of Wolfenstein: The New Blood. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-13 08:51 +0200
  Re: Logitech SetPoint software causes major slow down of Wolfenstein: The New Blood. "SC Tom" <sc@tom.net> - 2015-05-13 06:54 -0400
    Re: Logitech SetPoint software causes major slow down of Wolfenstein: The New Blood. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-13 15:59 +0200
    Re: Logitech SetPoint software causes major slow down of Wolfenstein: The New Blood. "Skybuck Flying" <skybuck2000@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-13 16:02 +0200

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