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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 enabling games to request a higher tick rate. 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. ...

Update - January 2026 AMD quietly fixed the hard part. The January 2026 Adrenalin driver update ships Ollama, LM Studio, and ComfyUI as a one-click optional install. If you’re on RX 7700 or newer – or a Ryzen AI 300/400/Max – you don’t need to touch ROCm libraries at all. Get the AI Bundle here. Running older AMD hardware? That’s what the rest of this post is for. Introduction OpenAI, Google, X and many more all provide AI chatbot capabilities that are really useful to a point and that point is how much they know. There is a prevailing consensus that the more data you give a model the better it is. You can even customise and get the chat bot to know you better by uploading your personal data. By doing so however you are seeding all your data to be owned by which ever company you are uploading to. Oh and you want to use our top models consistently without rate limits cough up some money as well boy! ...

So I’m visiting my family back in my home country which is currently experiencing daily power cuts, FUN! And as much as i love my chonky desktop there is not a flying fuck im lugging it all the way home. That is what we have laptops for! Saddly my desktop is x10 more powerful than my cafe warrior of a laptop so any cheeky hacking i might want to do will be severly limited… ...