DisplayFusion RSS: DF was causing system to become sluggish over time

DisplayFusion RSS: DF was causing system to become sluggish over time https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=cd54d8c7-e7ff-45cd-8682-82b089af1879 DisplayFusion RSS: DF was causing system to become sluggish over time Mon, 25 May 2026 05:14:45 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=cd54d8c7-e7ff-45cd-8682-82b089af1879 RE: DF was causing system to become sluggish over time https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/df-was-causing-system-to-become-sluggish-over-time/?ID=cd54d8c7-e7ff-45cd-8682-82b089af1879#4 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 19:23:21 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/df-was-causing-system-to-become-sluggish-over-time/?ID=cd54d8c7-e7ff-45cd-8682-82b089af1879#4 DisplayFusion Could you update to the latest beta (http://www.displayfusion.com/Download/Beta/) and then attach a copy of your troubleshooting info? Here are the steps:

Open the DisplayFusion Settings > Troubleshooting tab
Click the Copy to Clipboard button
Open Notepad, paste the text, and save the file
Reply with the text file attached

]]> RE: DF was causing system to become sluggish over time https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/df-was-causing-system-to-become-sluggish-over-time/?ID=cd54d8c7-e7ff-45cd-8682-82b089af1879#3 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:34:39 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/df-was-causing-system-to-become-sluggish-over-time/?ID=cd54d8c7-e7ff-45cd-8682-82b089af1879#3 DisplayFusion

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I'm sorry to hear that! What version of DisplayFusion are you using, and how frequent are your wallpaper changes?

I was using an older version. It was 5.xx I believe. But I tried the most recent version of DF as well and my system still became sluggish. My wallpaper was set to change every 30 seconds. But even when I turned the setting to rotate wallpapers off, I still experienced the same sluggishness. It was only when I disabled DF altogether that my system was fine again. ]]> RE: DF was causing system to become sluggish over time https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/df-was-causing-system-to-become-sluggish-over-time/?ID=cd54d8c7-e7ff-45cd-8682-82b089af1879#2 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:52:47 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/df-was-causing-system-to-become-sluggish-over-time/?ID=cd54d8c7-e7ff-45cd-8682-82b089af1879#2 DisplayFusion I'm sorry to hear that! What version of DisplayFusion are you using, and how frequent are your wallpaper changes? ]]> DF was causing system to become sluggish over time https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/df-was-causing-system-to-become-sluggish-over-time/?ID=cd54d8c7-e7ff-45cd-8682-82b089af1879 Tue, 30 Dec 2014 20:19:46 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/df-was-causing-system-to-become-sluggish-over-time/?ID=cd54d8c7-e7ff-45cd-8682-82b089af1879 DisplayFusion 4 months ago I updated Windows 8 to 8.1. Ever since then, my system would gradually become more and more sluggish throughout the day...to the point where I have to reboot my computer once a day (haven't done that since like Windows 95). Even dragging a window around the screen was choppy and laggy. It felt like a massive memory leak or something. It was driving me crazy and I tried finding a solution on a Windows 8 forum. Here's the thread detailing my troubleshooting process. DF would show CPU usage spikes every few seconds and I don't know if that's normal or not but that's just what I noticed in task manager.

http://www.eightforums.com/performance-maintenance/58688-system-gets-choppy-slow-within-24-hours.html

After a lengthy process of disabling programs one by one I finally found the culprit it seems. It was DisplayFusion. I don't know if anyone else is having a similar problem. But ever since I disabled DisplayFusion, my computer is back to being smooth without needing a reboot every day. (I am now on 4th day of up time without needing to reboot)

This never happened in Windows 8 + DisplayFusion. So I don't know if it's an 8.1 + DF problem or what.

The only thing I used DF for was to rotate my wallpapers on my third monitor while keeping the wallpapers on my 1st and 2nd monitor static. ]]>