Windows 10 performance drops following the Creators Update.
Windows 10 performance drops following the Creators Update.
Ever after updating my Windows 10 installation my PC feels a lot more sluggish, Google Chrome in particular, there's a very annoying delay switching tabs and video reproduction has become slow to react (play/pause) I wonder if anyone else is having a similar issue, (I've got the feeling that MS is trying to forcefully slow down Chrome to make you switch to Edge) Other apps seem mostly fine, games keep running at same FPS. Maybe my computer is just in need of a refresh (I've been running the same installation since Windows 8) however everything has been running smoothly and fine just until the creators update. I also rushed to install creators update (not a pre-release version) to get the updated WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) as soon as posible! Got any similar experiences? System should be more than able to handle browsing very very swiftly: i5 4600K 512Gb 850 evo Nvidia 1060 6gb 4k Display
Microsoft is suggesting to wait for your wave for Creators Update, and not to force upgrade due to hardware driver incompatibilities. Microsoft is detecting which hardware has issues and are working with manufacture to fix the issue. In the mean time, make sure that ALL your drivers are fully updated (Graphics card, sound card, bluetooth, wireless, Ethernet, motherboard chipset, etc.) If you have a already upgraded, you can downgrade, you have 30 days from the day you upgraded to downgrade, else Windows will remove the backup to go back (assuming you didn't do it, else you are stuck). A fresh clean install may help.
Interesting thing happened... right after finishing this, I looked for updates and found a new one. Performance and speed returned to normal, but I still wouldn’t recommend everyone jump in just yet... Honestly, Windows 10 has always been a bit shaky when it’s new. Win 8 was quite unreliable, and Win 8.1 was more stable. As someone who was among the first to adopt Windows 10, those early months were rough—task manager and restarting Explorer were daily occurrences. Once things settled and updates came, it really became reliable, though there are still a few oddities here and there.
You're experiencing the same problem with Chrome and Windows 10 following the Creators Update.
You might attempt to set up the motherboard chipset drivers and SATA controller (switching to a different SATA controller if needed) and then reboot your system to check for improvements.
No one is currently using a 5th generation Intel core processor. The 4th generation update was completed, and the 5th generation is not yet available.