I have also noticed that the rendering thread is a lot more active than the sim thread.
Process Monitor shows a lot of FAST IO DISALLOWED errors always from the operation: FASTIO_NETWORK_QUERY_OPEN.
It also appears that this operation tries to look for files in paths that do not exist.
It appears that FA keeps looking for files in C:\Program Files (x86)\THQ\Gas Powered Games\Supreme Commander - Forged Alliance\
instead of the gamedata folders from FAF and from the above directories.
When FASTIO_NETWORK_QUERY_OPEN fails to find a file it continues to try to find the same file in other folders before stopping for some reason
Also FASTIO_NETWORK_QUERY_OPEN never appears in a fresh windows 7 install with only FA and FAF installed.
Replay log is here: http://pastebin.com/9Knuz3je
The entire log is here: https://www.mediafire.com/?5sr0hicgjagynp2
Do not spend too much time trying to figure this out, but if you know why I am a dumbass and how I broke my pc please let me know. I am quite certain I didn't use to have this issue.
It appears that my network driver is bad or something else is wrong. I was able to almost completely eliminate this issue (and drastically improve stuttering), by doing the following in the network adapter device settings:
flow control: disabled
interrupt moderation rate: extreme
adaptive inter-frame spacing: enabledStatistics: Posted by SeraphimLeftNut — 28 Apr 2015, 08:13
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