NetworkProfileChecker.kt spawns enough powershell processes to make some games unplayable #337

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MrUnknownDE · 2026-04-05T18:26:14+02:00

MrUnknownDE commented

2026-04-05 18:26:14 +02:00

Originally created by @WinterWarp on 6/5/2025

After version 14.1 (specifically commit f9d619f), NetworkProfileChecker.kt will spawn a new process to run

powershell.exe -Command "(Get-NetConnectionProfile).NetworkCategory"

every three seconds. On powerful machines running just slimevr, this is normally not an issue; however, when combined with CPU-heavy games like VRChat, on less powerful machines, the stress of creating and terminating a process every 3 seconds has crashed my game sometimes or made it freeze for minutes on end.
I'd personally recommend either making that time much more graceful (because you really shouldn't be checking the network profile status that often), adding a setting in the GUI to turn this off, or find a less resource-intensive way to check this setting.

*Originally created by @WinterWarp on 6/5/2025* After version 14.1 (specifically commit [f9d619f](https://github.com/SlimeVR/SlimeVR-Server/commit/f9d619f93ac8d026355658490f238ad3974c3297)), NetworkProfileChecker.kt will spawn a new process to run ```powershell powershell.exe -Command "(Get-NetConnectionProfile).NetworkCategory" ``` every three seconds. On powerful machines running just slimevr, this is normally not an issue; however, when combined with CPU-heavy games like VRChat, on less powerful machines, the stress of creating and terminating a process every 3 seconds has crashed my game sometimes or made it freeze for minutes on end. I'd personally recommend either making that time *much* more graceful (because you really shouldn't be checking the network profile status that often), adding a setting in the GUI to turn this off, or find a less resource-intensive way to check this setting.

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Reference: github/SlimeVR-Server#337