Question for Aguy

I read this thread a moment ago

Windows theme changes to basic while streaming-recording after 30min

When you mentioned unchecking Enable desktop composition to stop his theme changing it made me think of something. I am a gamer and have had that happen while playing before. After reading a lot of threads and viewing gaming forums some answers pointed to this or that (weak psu, bad drivers, faulty netcode, etc..).

Would unchecking Enable desktop composition stop that pop up while gaming, or is something else probably causing that. I have monitored and my system was fine temp wise and resource wise, but would still get that. I decided it was due to my system specs so built another system and have not seen it happen but once in the last five weeks or so. However browsing through some gaming sites I see others with this happening, who have high end systems.

Was just curious if you had an idea of what causes this

Do you get a popup telling you windows wants to change to basic mode, and options?



If so, and you just want to disable that try this:

Start> In search box type action center> Enter> In left pane click on Change Action Center settings> Under Maintenance messages untick Windows Troubleshooting

If you want to prevent the change to basic theme, then yes, it is possible the instructions in that other post will also work for you. If specifically the desktop composition is what works, you can try and change that only for the shorcuts you use to launch the particular games.

Right click the shortcut> Properties> Compatibility tab> Disable desktop composition

See if that helps. A Guy

Thanks, I'll pass those tips on. Unchecking the Windows troubleshooting is an answer I haven't seen.

Hope it works for you fellow Dude

A Guy

You might try this:

Since Windows doesn't understand how resources work, you need to keep it from checking them:

In regedit go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\DWM (create if not already existent)

Set a new DWORD UseMachineCheck with a value of 0.

This will keep Windows from checking if your computer "performs slowly" and thus attempting to disable Aero.

Source

A Guy

Glad I found this thread, I had that pop up last night after exiting Tomb Raider and I was pretty damn certain it wasn't my rig running short on resources!

Boozad said:

Glad I found this thread, I had that pop up last night after exiting Tomb Raider and I was pretty damn certain it wasn't my rig running short on resources!

Did you find a fix that works for you?

A Guy

Not yet mate but I haven't been able to replicate the problem, it's only happened once after a session on Tomb Raider. I played it again last night but didn't get the pop up. If it happens again I'll report back.