AMD's Ryzen processors could be losing performance on Windows PCs, and apparently, Windows' own hidden Administrator account currently helps work around the bug. The issue may be affecting many SKUs.
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Microsoft has issued a workaround for a bug that is triggering BSODs on startup fails on Windows Server 2022 virtual machines on VMware ESXi. It notes that EPYC systems with IOMMU, VBS are affected.
Although AMD is the exclusive partner of Starfield, and though its GPUs are performing better than Nvidia's, the users are not getting the full experience due the sun being completely missing.
AMD's fTPM had been causing stuttering and freezing issues first on Windows, and then on Linux too. As such, Linux boss Linus Torvalds has now suggested disabling fTPM entirely on Ryzen.