microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Terminal Unresponsive when Playing Games
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Description
Windows Terminal version
1.20.11781.0
Windows build number
10.0.26100.0
Other Software
Steam
Any game launched through steam
Steps to reproduce
Start a video game and open Windows Terminal. Windows Terminal becomes unresponsive. This is true for any shell that terminal launches. powershell, cmd, wsl. This is on a fresh install of Windows 11 2024H2 on my Desktop with AMD Ryzen 7950x3d. I have disabled Game Mode and ensured power settings were set to performance.
Please note that a terminal inside of VSCode works without issue while Windows Terminal is entirely unresponsive.
Expected Behavior
No change in Windows Terminal performance when other programs are launching.
Actual Behavior
Windows Terminal freezes. After 3-5 minutes the terminal will accept keystrokes but quickly freeze again.
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