RenPy games constantly say "Not Responding"/ take a lot of time to load simple renders.

[yoda.baby]

Idk if the title exactly conveys what I'm facing but whenever I launch and play a RenPy game, it gets stuck for a few seconds between scenes, This issue is very frequent, happens every 5 minutes. And this is not a game specific issue as it happens will all games. Any idea what I should do?
PS - The games (all of them) show a "Very High" power usage in task manager. May be that is what's causing the issue?

 

[anne O'nymous]

PS - The games (all of them) show a "Very High" power usage in task manager. May be that is what's causing the issue?

Yes it is the issue, but it's not really normal that it happen. Ren'Py is not really CPU load optimized, but not to the point to overload the CPU, even one that was average 20 years ago.

There's some CPU load issue, but very punctual and specific, therefore not the kind you encounter.
I'm tempted to say that it's the side effect from something else, like by example an anti-virus that would scan the RAM in real time. Ren'Py games mostly use full screen CGs, need a lot of memory space and change frequently. It would force the anti-virus to regularly process a big amount of data, what would explain the CPU load increase.
But it's just a guess.

 

[yoda.baby]

I'm tempted to say that it's the side effect from something else, like by example an anti-virus.

I stopped/ended my anti-virus, yet the problem still persists. Also, Defender isn't throwing any alerts regarding renpy or anything.
Does RenPy have cache data or something I could clear?