So do you reccoment i turn them down or off just for the tests, and thne turn them back up for gaming ?
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2D was fast in the year 2018 and early 2019. But is slower now.
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Microsoft, Intel and AMD have made patches to the O/S and CPU microcode to fix the Spectre & Meltdown class of security issues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectr...vulnerability)
These changes have a performance impact on tests that make a lot of API function calls into the Kernel. (e.g. Disk and 2D). Particularly the advanced vectors and windows interface tests. Performance can be roughly halved.
Solution (Unverified):
If you get the inspectre tool from Gibson Research it can report on what Spectre & Metldown patches have been applied and disable them. This will then restore the lost performance (but also reopen the security vulnerability). In our opinion, the security issues aren't critical for a home user (one user on a single machine). They are more critical in a server environment with multiple users however. So try disabling them and see if it restores the lost performance.
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2D was faster in mid 2019, but is slower now.
Problem:
Microsoft have made patches to the O/S to work around security issues. These patches were in September 10, 2019—KB4512578 (OS Build 17763.737)
Like the Spectre & Metldown changes above these changes have a performance impact on tests that make a lot of API function calls into the Kernel. (e.g. Disk and 2D). Particularly the advanced vectors and windows interface tests. Performance was reduced by up to a further 30% (after being cut in half earlier).
Solution:
Don't install KB4512578. Not much of a solution really. Microsoft are aware of the problem, but don't care greatly about 2D performance.
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