I've been using DisplayFusion for some time now, and I'm generally very happy with it.

Since switching my HDD to one thats quite noisy, I've noticed that it's basically constantly in use, and DFs wallpaper slideshow is the reason.

I've already set the wallpaper change interval to 30 mins, for each of the three monitors, but nothing changed.

After pausing and starting the slideshow the problem stops, but starts again after some time, it's unclear to me why thats happening. It sometimes takes hours for the problem to start again.

DF even reads files and folders it has no reason to, see attached Resource Monitor screenshot, the slideshow isn't set to this HDD. It looks like that constantly.

It mostly does it with the correct folders, but in a much too high frequency.

I've attached logs, made when the problem was happening.

What could be causing this?

I added the log with the settings, what other specific information do you need?

Thank you for the tip, I enabled it specifically for troubleshooting, but only for a few seconds, as I thought that would be enough.

Thats perfectly ok, I expected that.

I wish you happy holidays.

Thank you, I've tested it today and sadly the issue wasn't solved.

But I've noticed the issue starts immediadely when I'm playing a game, which is most of the time so I didn't notice before.

I've made a log that starts before there's any issue, then I started the game (Farmer's Life) and let the log run for a few secods with the issue persisting.

I also noticed the Resource monitor showing Display Fusion acessing the game folders immediately as the game starts, see attached picture.

I hope this helps solve it.

I just noticed the issue starting immediately after booting the PC, so no game running.

Just to let you know.

At that time it scanned the correct folders.

It didn't happen on boot since then.

I see, it was just confusing to me, but that explains it. There are no issues in this regard then.

But the issue that still persits, that DF is suddenly scanning the correct wallpaper folders for no apparent reason.

Even when I'm setting the interval to 0,10 mins there is just minor HDD activity, and everything works great.

But once I start a game, DF will scan the correct wallpaper folders, like all of them, immediately. And that never stops until I pause the slideshow or quit DF.

It happens with multiple games I've tested, Steam or not Steam. And also if Steam is not running.

Yes of course.