Does A Desktop Background Affect Performance
Given that you are going to be displaying a background image anyways usually the os default any potential performance loss is completely negligible.

Does a desktop background affect performance. If i add 1 drop of water in a swimming pool will there be more water. From my experience a background image effects the performance very little unless your running a netbook with little memory or something. Running the 64bit version will use more ram also having the fps from 30 to 60 will also impact the computers performance yes in a demanding game you would most likely see a slight drop in performance running this whilst running another extensive applications wallpaper engine only stops if you have the default settings enabled for a better experience i suggest using the 64 bit app while ideal and restart and use the default. There should be no real performance impact from a wallpaper.
Lots of icons on the desktop have no impact on your system speed periodit has a small impact on how long it takes to redraw the desktop but thats very minor. However there is an exception. No basically unless you have a old crappy pc you wont notice any difference. A desktop background is usually a jpeg or if you want more detail a png file.
No it cant more affect on your processor you can say desktop background has negligible affect than speed of processor and ram memory if you are using simple. Todays cpus are much better at multi tasking so leaving background programs running shouldnt impact gaming in any serious way. View profile view posts. Conventional wisdom says that no those days are over.
Yes it does thats the only correct answer. Still i decided to find out for myself if only for peace of mind. Yes will it be noticeable. Nov 30 2017 at 1241pm.
My windows xp desktop with exactly one desktop icon.

















































































