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.
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.
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.
