Windows 11 Has Been Lying to Your Games
TL;DR Run this in an elevated Command Prompt and reboot: reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel" /v GlobalTimerResolutionRequests /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f Windows 11 silently broke global timer resolution. This restores it. Scroll down for the full breakdown. A Year of Microstutter. One Registry Key. For about a year my PC has been stuttering. Not crashing, not dropping to unplayable framerates. Just this persistent, infuriating microstutter that made everything feel slightly wrong. Moving windows across the desktop, playing a game would stutter when looking at a moderately busy scene. That subtle jankiness you can’t quite screenshot but absolutely feel, and it all started when I upgraded to Windows 11. ...