I receive Aero Lag when opening and closing windows in Windows 7

Anonymous
2009-11-03T19:47:26+00:00

original title:  Aero Lag when opening and closing windows in Windows 7

UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK since we've got the ball rolling here, I am editing this to better reflect what is going on. The below links are just a few out of hundreds of post you will find on the internet about this Aero Lag. Some offer workarounds and some don't. I just Googled Aero Lag and this was from the first page.

If you have the same problem, please provide:

  1. What type of graphics card you have.
  2. What kind of drivers are you using (Win7 preinstalled or manufacturer's drivers)
  3. Was your version of Win7 an update or clean install.
  4. What motherboard you have.

From the sounds of it, Microsoft is looking for a fix.

I also ask for a forum admin to make this a sticky as many people are experiencing this problem.

-Randall

http://www.sevenforums.com/performance-maintenance/22313-aero-lag-good-system.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/21250-win7-aero-windows-have-choppy-delay-when-opening.html

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproperf/thread/a013396d-8953-4e32-8d13-f2d119cd730d

http://www.flamehaus.com/bbs/-vp3478764.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKNj_90E_PI

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1465844

http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-hardware/1549-windows-7-video-lag.html

http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-software/23315-gaming-video-lag-choppyness.html

http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-support/5287-aero-lags-when-open-new-programs.html

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=66007

http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t787172.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdVrSUhvLE

Randall

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Anonymous
2011-01-13T22:36:16+00:00

**Have solved my problem withAeor lag.**Reinstall Windows 7 U64 twice with new/old driver.

Replaced Gforce 8800GTX with Gforce GTX480.

Have spent many days on this problem without a solution.

But here is a very simple solution that works for me.

I removed the USB extension cablefor my CreativeHS-1200WirelessUSB Gaming Headset.

Aero lags when Iused USB extension cable and headset charging.

Without USB extension cable, everything is fine.

So it think itis a voltagedrop in the USB extension cable,causes the system to lag. ?

Hope it can help.

Sincerely,

Dennis Psilander

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  1. Anonymous
    2009-11-14T03:08:00+00:00

    Well let me just bump this back to the top. I must say, I am quite tired of this. I've had to reboot nearly a dozen times today. I even disabled all the performance options and it still lagged up. I would watch videos, but they speed up the time til lag. I'd use safe mode, but audio is disabled there! This is getting on my nerves! Since the I disabled all the Aero options the only lag I get is with videos/music.

    Randall

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  2. Anonymous
    2009-11-13T19:27:23+00:00

    With how fast most peoples machines are now days, intel or amd this should not be an issue.  Like most people are thinking its a code bug within Windows 7.   Microsoft knows about it and is looking into it...all we can do now is just wait for a update from them..if that ever happens.

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  3. Anonymous
    2009-11-13T17:53:20+00:00

    Well I think I should had of knocked on wood, cause it's back, hardcore. I want to try changing some IRQ's to see if that will work, but it does not seem like it's possible. Windows won't let me, and even if my motherboard won't let me. I even turned on the "Plug and Play" option. I did notice one thing while comparing non-lag to lag environments, when there is lag with no other windows open except the AMD performance monitor, cores 3 and 4 were constantly over 60% usage. But when there was no lag, with 4 IE open, and the performance moniter open, all cores stayed below 10% usage. So trying to make a point here, could it be CPU related?

    Randall

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  4. Anonymous
    2009-11-13T08:58:55+00:00

    You lucky thing! I see my specific open/close lag every single time I open a window. If I open 100 windows, I see 100 lags. Only 1(?) percent of the closing windows seems to be without stutters, because the closing animation is so fast. (but only in real time, in slow motion the open lag and also the close lag is everytime there)

    The Vista animation is everytime smooth, 0 stutters in real time, 0 stutters in slow motion, 0 closing stutters, 0 opening stutters.

    edit: @unknowntbeast: Maybe you had only a driver problem or something like that. Do you really have no stuttering at all? Even when you do the slow motion trick and close windows?

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