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I know this has been explored in the past, but I'm at a loss as what to do here an was hoping someone could help me.

I have a 2k line script that I run on a daily basis. It has about 11 SetTimer's running. The script runs very smooth on my old HP (Win10 16GB RAM i5). I recently purchased a new sager (Win10 32GB RAM i7) and the script performs terribly. Lags on every hotkey/hotstring.

I have tried using the 64 bit version
I have tried setting batch lines to -1
I have tried setting process priority to high
I have tried to "refresh this pc" (basically reinstalls windows)

Seriously, at a loss here. Anyone have any thoughts that might help?

Hard to say. A different anti-virus?

I think it would be good to make sure that there aren't some important drivers missing.
And maybe take a look on the BIOS to see if you see something weird?

gregster wrote: ↑

16 Feb 2019, 18:43

Hard to say. A different anti-virus?

No. No anto-virus installed on either machine other than Win10's default protection. Thanks.

safetycar wrote:I think it would be good to make sure that there aren't some important drivers missing.
And maybe take a look on the BIOS to see if you see something weird?

Good suggestion. I'll take a look. Thanks.

i dont know.

ListLines Off
SetBatchLines, -1
SetKeyDelay, -1, -1
SetWinDelay, -1
SetControlDelay, -1
Process, Priority,, H
Critical , On

All good suggestions. Am I the only one who finds it weird that a bigger better badder computer performs worse than the older, not so crappy, but not as good computer?

Far fetched, but wouldn't be the first time I've seen a high DPC latency create a chain reaction. Check it if you want to make sure.
Example of something you can use.
https://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml

SSD vs. HDD?

coffee wrote: ↑

16 Feb 2019, 21:54

Far fetched, but wouldn't be the first time I've seen a high DPC latency create a chain reaction. Check it if you want to make sure.
Example of something you can use.
https://www.thesycon.de/eng/latency_check.shtml

Thanks! I will.

just me wrote:SSD vs. HDD?

Both are SSD.

Without any hint as to what your script is doing it will be hard to tell where the performance is lost.
e.g. when you use a lot of FileAppends this topic might be interesting:
https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=61853

I would expect debugging would be easy if you can immediately determine whether the script performs poorly or not? What happens when you disable all timers? Do stand alone scripts with a single test hotkey performs bad as well?

I had the same thought too. Even a simple script with 1 hotstring took almost a second (in some cases more) to execute. I tried different versions as well. That along with other issues not related to AHK, I have decided to return the machine. Thanks everyone for your input.