> I noticed when playing some more demanding games, the game performance isn't always > the same. Like when I play MK4 or Gauntlet Legends, sometimes I'll launch the game & > it plays 100% speed no problem. Then I can exit out of the game, and then literally > wait a few seconds & run it again & it will keep jumping between 76-84% speed. Even > though all I did was exit out and go back in without making any changes. I'd think it > was just to demanding, but I don't get why the speeds can jump around so much when I > didn't do anything. > > Before I recently bought a newer computer, if a pc game, or games from other > emulators were to demanding, the speed would always suffer the same way. I didn't see > performance jump all over the place like with what's happening here. I just find it > frustrating because I have to exit and re-launch the games a few times until it > finally decides to play at 100% speed. And when it does, it will stay 100% all the > way through. > > My specs are: > > Intel Core i7 6700 3.4 GHz > GeForce GTX 750 2GB > 16GB DDR4 RAM > Windows 10 64 bit OS
I've noticed similar on some machines without adequate cooling.
Modern CPUs ramp up and down the clock quite frequently, but from what I can see, seem less likely to ramp things up if the CPU is already past a certain temperature threshold.
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