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I bet your first thought was, "Why would you make something else fullscreen if you have RimWorld running??" Well first of all, I keep my game windowed. Just my personal preference. Second, when I have RimWorld running, it doesn't slow my computer down very much so, for example, let's say I open my browser and get distracted from the game, and the game ends up completely hidden behind my browser. I'm easily distracted, so I kinda forgot I had RimWorld open the first time this happened XD

The first time, a while ago, I tried to make a YouTube video fullscreen with RimWorld in the background, and got a BlueScreen with the "THREAD STUCK IN DEVICE DRIVER" error. I even tested it again right after my laptop started back up, got the same result.

I didn't stumble upon this issue again until today, and this time it was in the case of opening another game while RimWorld was open, and I happen to have that game set to Windowed(Fullscreen), so when it tried to open, I got another BlueScreen with the same error. No, I didn't purposefully open this second game. The second game only opened because I accidentally clicked it on my taskbar. Accidents happen.

So yeah, I mean this obviously isn't something the average RimWorld player will run into and it's easy enough to avoid, but I thought I'd share XD

I'm trying REALLY hard to contain my excitement...I went and used the "auto-detect" utility for AMD graphics software from their website and I installed what it suggested, and my problem is COMPLETELY gone. I had tried installing graphics drivers since the problem started but I guess what I was getting wasn't what I needed. I feel less than smart for not doing this sooner, but thanks for the help Milon and Nccvoyager <3

I've tried all the suggestions and none helped >_<

Here's the output_log.txt from just earlier when I decided to try playing again...I started a New Colony, and tried to put my game in full screen to see if there was any difference, but I don't seem to be able to even change the game resolution at all. The game either becomes unresponsive or it takes so long for the change to be applied that the "accept changes timer" runs out and the change reverts before I get the chance to accept. (This wasn't the case before the FPS problem started happening. I could change my window resolution as I wanted with no issues.)

Something I've noticed is if I have my cursor over, say, a mountain where the description in the lower left doesn't need to change, my FPS smooths out a bit when I pan the camera, and any time my cursor is over regular ground where the description is constantly changing, the FPS tanks.

After reading this post (https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=27516.0) I figured I should say that I had some issues with my Graphics Driver around the time my game started acting up. Something about my AMD Radeon R7 M260 Display Driver was causing my Explorer.exe to constantly crash, long story short, I got the problem fixed, and did a Refresh of my laptop, and I was hoping the Refresh would solve my Rimworld problem, but it hasn't.

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I played the game for about a week for hours on end with absolutely no problems, and even after I added one mod (Prepare Carefully) it was fine. I went to play it one day and the entire game was slow to respond to clicking buttons even on the main menu and in colonist selection, and of course in-game is slow as ever. The game has really low FPS (I'm talking unplayable here because sometimes it basically freezes) whenever I move the camera, regardless of game speed, even when paused. I even tried starting a new colony just to see if it was the base I had that was slowing down the game, but as I said, it's slow to respond even before I'm actually playing. I've verified the game files, restarted my computer, nothing seems to be using very many resources in task manager, even the game itself doesn't use many resources when it's running. I'm currently running malware and antivirus scans to see if there are any issues there... definitely going to take a few hours though (scans found nothing). I LOVE this game, I just have a hard time playing it when I can barely move the camera around to see things. Hopefully somebody here has some advice that can help me fix my new favorite game >_< Thanks in advance.