4.14.3 Bad performance with multiple windows open

This is how it looks like with multiple windows, the performance is cut in a very linear fashion

  1. windows: 60fps | 16.7ms
  2. windows: 30fps | 33.3ms
  3. windows: 20fps | 50.0ms
  4. windows: 15fps | 66.7ms

  • it does not seem to matter how many monitors are involved
  • it does not seem to matter which window is in focus
  • this also affects the PIE mode
  • the editor’s ‘Use Less CPU when in Background’ setting does not affect this behaviour

tested on:
3570k @ 4GHz, 16GB, 7970 3GB, Win10 64b