Game speed occasionally changes

[Intangible]

I'm at a bit of a loss to explain this behavior... occasionally, the AGS game I'm developing goes notably slower than normal. Nothing I try, including rebooting the computer, will reliably make the speed go back to normal. I've seen this happen on an AGS game that I had compiled days ago and at the time it was compiled it was running smoothly (in other words, it can happen without any changes to the game itself... a compiled game that was running smoothly will start running slow one day, and likewise at some point that same compiled game will start running smoothly again).

This has happened to me a few times; has anyone else seen this? Is there some system-level thing that can make the game run slower than normal (nothing else seems to be affected by the slowness; just my AGS game).

[Khris]

I can't imagine what could be causing this, are you positive that there isn't running anything in the background (Windows search indexing, virus scan, etc.)?
What does it say in the task manager? What's the CPU and memory load for the game when it's running slow?

[Intangible]

I can't imagine what could be causing this, are you positive that there isn't running anything in the background (Windows search indexing, virus scan, etc.)?
What does it say in the task manager? What's the CPU and memory load for the game when it's running slow?

Well no, I'm not positive that there isn't anything else running in the background when this is happening. But I can run Civilization V without any slowdown whatsoever while this is happening, and my little AGS game should surely be able to outperform Civilization V in any situation if it was a system-wide problem. Still, if this isn't a known AGS thing, I suppose it's more likely to be system-related. It's embarasing, but I'm a technology professional and I hate my computer; it's been giving me problems for the better part of a year now.

I just un-sleeped my computer this morning and the AGS game running perfectly fine again. Ergh.

[hedgefield]

Are you on a desktop or a laptop?

[Intangible]

Desktop.

[Intangible]

The behavior has resurfaced for the third time, and I'm still at a loss as to what makes it appear/disappear.

In the meantime, I'm left guessing how and when my AGS stuff will start running at normal speed again...