@sinspirit

my 2 PCs with Ryzen are having that audio issue too! one with Ry3 3300X and another with Ry5 5600X. they now both can't output audio through the jack! had to solve the problem with a USB-C to 3.5mm converter for the former and using HDMI audio from TV using the optical cable to the sound system for the later. so annoying. any fixes that you know of? can't find any myself!

@badz149

Off the top of my head. I never found any actual solution if the quick fixes don't work. Uninstalling and reinstallng drivers(with a reboot), verifying all programs related to hardware are set to run automatically and are not disabled or on manual if necessary, installing driver for similar hardware if original won't work, and wiping registry with programs and manually through regedit. I've even reinstalled brand new Windows installation with or without keeping my files, but always resetting default Windows settings.

I literally just don't have the energy to do all that anymore since it has countlessly happened to me back to back, and sometimes still happens. I just take another break from PC and see if new Windows update fixes it. It happened one update this year, and luckily the update a few days later fixed it.

@sinspirit

thanks for the sharing dude. I also literally went through the troubles doing almost all those things you mentioned except reinstalling windows with no luck and finally convinced that this is Ryzen chipset issue on Windows because I have another PC with Intel i5-4590, that has no problem with audio. I just hope my family's laptops (3 of them all with Ryzen) won't ever have this problem

I have yeah and I'm running an AMD CPU (3900x), cant say ive honestly noticed any difference but then I'm not over analysing my FPS counter constantly or at least not enough to notice a few percent.

I pretty much just play by "feel" once I've got the settings where i want/need them.

"Every other* Windows"

I see some value in that assessment. I've no idea how old you are, so if we start with semi-recent history...

Windows XP was great, but it came after the disaster that was Windows 2000/ME/NT/whatever you want to call it or whichever variant you had. It learned from that disaster, and then came Windows Vista, which.... Was pretty bad. It lost a lot of the charm and intuitiveness of XP... So they fixed it with Windows 7 which was a good OS... Followed by completely messing with the formula in The Windows 8 era (though 8.1 was an apparent improvement—I don't know, I never used 8.1 and I hate 8. Then, Windows 10 was a much better return to form. Took a while, but it got better. In short, the operating systems since 2000 have been commonly regarded as bad>good>bad>good> awful>good.

So really, I would say that every other Windows being bad is not an unreasonable thing to say.

Of course, my interpretation of TheEnigma313's comment is that they're saying Windows has these hit-miss cycles, not saying that every single other Windows OS is bad.

He's right though, for those who used older versions of windows (I think my first pc was some version of Windows NT), Microsoft tends to have a good release followed by a bad release.

He actually has a point. Every time every other new Windows comes out they want to fix what isn't broken. To me Windows XP and 7 were the GOAT OSes and they changed them for the worse for no reason. Windows 10 was good but not great. 11 will remain to be seen.

Windows scheduler still screws up the AMD performance on PC. It has been poor for multithreading for a very long time. If they optimized it with the OS then we'd have more gains in general. Game devs must optimize better and so does Windows.

@sinspirit

Technically you are also correct..
But windows 11 is changing how games read with multithreading.
Thus the current issue.
Games were programmed one way for windows/Xbox gaming.
This is changing with windows.
Said changes are not coded as such or pipelined correctly currently.
This is due to the previous direction Microsoft had laid out for programmers.
The disagrees are not in the know..

This is a great break down and description of the direction of said changes
It also describes how it is incorporating Sony’s architecture of multi threading.
https://youtu.be/21jH39rlvD...

DIdn't they make the Windows 11 scheduler optimized for the upcoming Intel CPUs with the Big and Small cores? Maybe that is why AMD is buggy on Windows 11 but we need to test it with older Intel CPUs to be sure.

I also don't condone piracy and agree with your statement. However, one instance I will bring up is one of the Windows installations was just very meh and even after verifying your legit Windows key it would keep asking for it over and over, every hour, and changing your background to black with the unregistered Windows watermark. You had to call them to fix it, and after an update or hardware swap it would happen again. It was a fairly common issue. I always owned my own key and still do, but I definitely used the "other" version in that instance just to finally be rid of that annoying popup and to turn off some of the background tasks.

I think it was Windows 8 if I remember correctly.

How do you just make shit up like that and expect people not to call you out on it?

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse