Multiple Microsoft Visual C++ causes lag

[Jaydee Ramos]

Recently I've installed Photoshop 2013 on my laptop and few days after I experienced lag every minute on my games, I ran system restore (the photoshop will uninstall) and I tested and the lag is gone after it I install the Photoshop again and the lag came back, and I think the multiple Visual C++ it installs is the cause of lag. After I installed Photoshop I ran some diagnostics by removing older Visual C++ I noticed that Visual C++ x64 is the only one photoshop needed, so I only left installed is Visual 2012 x64 and Visual 2013 x86 and no lag. After some days again one of the game installed Visual 2005, I uninstalled both my new game and the visual 2005 but after it the lag came back. An tips to get rid of this ?

 

[onichikun]

The architecture of the run time is not going to affect your performance for a particular game. Any 64-bit games you use will use the x64 runtimes, while any 32-bit games you have will use the x86 version using Windows-on-Windows64 (WoW64).

Now, since it does sound like there is a correlation with what runtime libraries you are installing and game performance, I would say you need to:
1) Install the latest run time versions that you need from Microsoft's website and install them (rather than using the pre-packaged ones they provide) see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2977003 and download the relevant re-distributable packages

and 2) make sure your hard drive is not approaching capacity. If it is when you install everything that your hard drive is almost full, this can lead to some issues with your virtual memory subsystem that will cause decreased performance.