FPS drop or Stutter after every 1 min because of background wallpaper settings.
Check my thread for more details: https://community.amd.com/thread/243194 Issue Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6CS8GTBLU0&t=37s (Notice at 0:42, 1:42, 2:42, 3:42 time) During the gameplay, any game mostly FPS game, it was observed that FPS drops after every 1min(that is from 250 in CS: GO it dropped to 80-90 for 1 sec and the come back to normal 250 or so). I tried everything like any other user. Tried changing my hardware, updated drivers and changed many setting, etc. blah blah blah. But, none of that helped me even a professional person was unable to solve my problem. After 4 months of struggle, I found the issue that is very common and because of this PC suffers from a performance issue. I was using 25-30 wallpapers and changed my Background settings in the Personalize section. I turned on Shuffle and wallpaper change after every 1 min. Because of that, I was getting that FPS drop issue, which means while playing the game, whenever Windows changes the next wallpaper automatically after 1min, it was observed that OS encountered a sudden stutter and FPS drop for 1 second for a moment and then FPS comes back to normal. This is not just my PC, I have checked 3 other gaming PC's and found the same issue on every system. Combination of AMD/Intel CPU's + Nvidia/AMD GPU's etc. I tried everything and found the same issue on all 4 PCs. So, my point is can you please fix this issue as I love to keep my wallpapers changing. Please give a new update for this because it was not a problem before. I think a new Windows 10 update in early 2019 started this issue. I hope this will reach many gamers who are encountering the same issue while playing FPS games like CS: GO, PUBG, Apex, Dota 2, etc. Solution: Keep 1 wallpaper for your background.
Static DCHP Address-Binding on Hyper-V Private vSwitches?
Recently got a new laptop with Windows 10 Pro. Prior to this, always used VirtualBox for locally-hosting VMs to do my development work on. Opted to try out Hyper-V since it's also free (and hopefully requires less-frequent reboots for hypervisor-driver updates). Initially, I set up my VMs to use an external vSwitch. However, external vSwitches require putting my wifi interface into bridge-mode. When in bridge mode, network performance goes in the trash - for both my VMs and my host: using various speed-testing tools, my connection-performance drops from 500Mbps-bidirectional to about 4Mbps down/200Kbps up. As a workaround, I switched to using private vSwitches and using connection sharing. This restored my host's connection-performance to their initial levels and sped my VMs' networking up to nearly the same speed, as well. Unfortunately, the cost seems to be that my VMs' IP addresses change regularly. Worse, if I go into the VMs and change to static IP addressing, the private vSwitch's gateway refuses to route. So, the question is, "how do I provide persistent address-binding to my Hyper-V VMs without trashing my networking-performance"? I've seen various posts about using external interfaces and changing driver-settings to disable the broken "optimization" settings associated with bridge-mode, but, those settings don't seem to be available when the base NIC is WiFi.