Windows 11 CPU Usage Reporting is Apparently Buggy, Including on Task Manager (neowin.net) 41
An anonymous reader shares a report: While not every user is actively monitoring hardware resource usage when gaming, enthusiasts and reviewers often turn the stats on to see how certain games and other applications are being handled by the hardware. During such a test run, CapFrameX, which developed a useful frametime analysis tool, noticed a weird anomaly when gauging the performance of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D on Lara Croft Shadow of the Tomb Raider (SotTR). The processor usage reported on Windows 11 is seemingly unusually low in one of the scenes in the game which is typically known to be quite intense on the CPU. Only one out the 16 threads seem to be reporting the correct usage whereas all the other threads are under 10% utilization. CapFrameX notes the issue though it isn't sure what could be causing it: " The core usage reporting on Window 11 is completely broken. Should be >80% for SotTR + this particular scene and settings. What happened? Did the recent update change the timer behavior?"
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In what ways? So far, for myself, and everyone else that I know that uses it, Windows 11 has proven to be a stable and robust system. I've seen no show stoppers or any new bugs in the system that rate above a minor annoyance.
As for SaaS status. Again, nobody that I know that runs Windows 11 has reported back to me where it asked for money to keep working.
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Yet. Also, how much is your harvested data and force fed ads worth? [pcmag.com] You know, in your OPERATING SYSTEM, whose job none of these things are, or are supposed to be, or should be, or should allowed to be, or should be acceptable to - as anyone with even middling sanity ought attest.
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I don't see how this answer has anything to do with the original post, as in it contains no information that indicates windows 11 is a "bug fest" or in any way illuminates instances where windows 11 has pandered for payment.
As for the question, again nobody that I know of has seen windows 11 stick up any kind of ads during normal use. There was a few items of interested that it indicated as new features after my last upgrade. But windows 11 has yet to try to sell me a anything at all.
As for data, onc
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Same, but to be fair, all this is antidotal to begin with. I have a PiHole running as the only valid DNS's provider on my network so I can catch any calls.
I will say I STILL want to be able to turn off Windows Updates. There is NOTHING more annoying than having your Bluetooth driver get updated when using a Bluetooth mouse. I just don't know why it happens either since I have driver and 3rd party updates off. It happens just infrequently enough for me to forget, but not enough to annoy the shit out of m
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Your operating system? I thought we were talking about Windows?
Since at least XP Windows has been unapologetically Microsoft's operating system.
If you want to own your OS (and by extension your PC), Windows is a very poor option. Fortunately there are several other options (mostly Linux- or BSD-based, but there are others as well). And their Windows compatibility layers are getting extremely good, so that you can usually use "your" old Windows software if it only supports Windows and you're not intereste
Re: OS in SaaS (Score:1)
Oh I also experience bug with mouse while playing. So it might be not my mouse that is buggy after all.
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I'm sure my experience is new bugs, plus the old bugs from Windows 10.
Most of these bugs activate when the kernel is modified. That rarely happens in Win 10 but in Win 11, it happens every week. Once, that stops and the top-shelf price drops 75%, I'll happily change to Windows 11.
I don't know anyone making that claim, although the 'free' version does more nagging. More troublesome, Win 11 locks-down the user interface in a way that horrifies any serious user or player.
It also forces updates with no pos
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I've run into lots of little bugs.
Sometimes, clicking the icon of an (already running) application in the dock does not restore the window. To work around this, I restore and minimize a different window, which somehow resets something in the dock, getting it working again.
Sometimes, opening the calendar widget in the bottom right-hand corner doesn't bring up the entire calendar.
A lot of things, such as the search button, often take a long time to display (anywhere from 3-10 seconds), causing me to click aga
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The low quality of the software coming out of Redmond was never much of a barrier to their market dominance.
Re: OS in SaaS (Score:1)
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The only thing we can do now (Score:3)
Is tell all your friends and relatives not to use it. Not using it usually lets microsoft know that they suck, they've been getting every other version of windows wrong since the beginning of time.
Re: The only thing we can do now (Score:2)
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They'll just start posting huge warnings saying that your computer is at risk
Shouldn't this be the case for all Wondows versions ? Maybe post warnings similar to what cigarette companies need to put on their packs.
Win11 is Win10.1 (Score:2)
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Is this not an example of a new problem?
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Not on my end. Win10 misreported my 3900X's clockspeed chronically, reporting it @3.8 GHz when it was running at speeds between 4.0 GHz and 4.35 GHz. Or rarely higher.
Win11 does the same thing.
It's an old bug.
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This, exactly. Windows 11 is hardly more than Windows 10 with a slight face lift. A little work and you can make Win11 look almost like Win10. I tell most people that ask me if they should upgrade from Win10 to Win11, if they are happy with Win10 not to bother.
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How Task Manager measures CPU (Score:3, Informative)
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Thanks, I'll check that out. I've long known that Windows analytics don't measure certain things right, and estimate other things that are too expensive to measure, but I haven't studied that for a while.
But, as anecdotal evidence goes, I just got a new laptop with W11. A few strange glitches, but I'm getting used to it. F'rinstance, I started a program that I had just downloaded, it appeared then hung. Tried to kill the window, then looked in TM to kill it. Nope, not there.
I guess the three-finger salute c
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Beta (Score:2)
He was using a beta OS build. Not really news for betas to have bugs. If it was in stable (is it?) that would be more interesting.
Also Task Manager is being completely rewritten so that's another wrinkle (does that one have the same problem?)
Keep a powershell window running (Score:3, Informative)
get-process - see all your processes
get-process | sort cpu - sort by CPU
stop-process -name - specify a name of a process to stop.
You can even do fun partials
get-process | where {$_.name -like"MS*"}
or pipe them into stop process.
You mean it works right (Score:1)
in older Windows??
This is my shocked face! (Score:2)
I have noticed that Windows virtual machines tend to show much less processor activity than the host (KVM) shows for all flavors of Windows.
Windows 11 is dogshit (Score:2)
Windows is done & dusted as far as a personal computer O/S is concerned.
It's a piis poor pile of dogshit.
The numbers are lies (Score:2)
It's been known for a while that Task Manager (the "new" Process Explorer) under-reports CPU utilization. If you use old versions of Process Explorer (by SysInternals, before Microsoft bought them out), you'll see lost of extra stuff and higher utilization numbers that aren't shown in the Microsoft version. This applies to disk utilization and which background tasks are visible, as well.
Granted, I've only done these experiments under Windows 10, and haven't even touched Windows 11 yet. However, we all kn
It's not a bug, it's a feature! (Score:2)
Microsoft is just testing out if they can hide cryptomining from the user.
Taskman is broken anyway (Score:2)