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LifestreamSunday morning and I got out of sleep (S3/STR) with Aero disabled in Windows 7 again. The experience index said my graphics adapter was rated 2.0 (instead of 7.7). The index needed to be re-run it said.
After some research I realized that the reason for this was the task scheduler where WinSAT.exe exists buried quite deep in the task tree. Microsoft\Windows\Maintenance to be exact. Normally set to run at first opportunity every sunday.
As for why the scheduling causes a problem I do not know. But obviously something goes wrong coming out of sleep. Perhaps it is linked to the Radeon 5xxx series and their nifty 2D underclocking. But at any rate I do not understand how WinSAT can just rush past the benchmarking suit (pretty sure it didn’t run) and proceed to downgrade the graphics score.
