Hello! I want to share some information that solved the issue I had on my Windows 11. I couldn’t find information about it on the internet and sorta stumbled upon the solution myself.
Basically my VLC or any video playback program would run at lower framerate and drop even more frames along with already said framerate. I tried the usual Windows power profile settings, VLC fixes, such as hardware acceleration, codec changes, allowing bigger cache size etc. None of that helped. I also won’t link any of those since there’s like a million forum posts and videos about how to try any of those solutions that could definitely be of use for someone else.
In my case I had to disable an option called “Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.” I restarted the PC right after as it also called for it and what do you know, it’s perfect now. I’m guessing the setting works different on the hardware you have and generation of it. While all the components in my PC are in the supported list for 11, something must still cause funny business with it.
TLDR:
I had to disable an option called “Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.” If that doesn’t work for someone else, look into other VLC stutter fixes, such as increasing cache, changing hardware acceleration options around or changing codecs. The option I used is visible on following screenshot.
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