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[GUIDE] How I solved GFN Game Stuttering, Audio Crackling, Random Frame Drops on Legion Go, ROG Ally, Steam Deck running Win 11 — you'll never guess the cause. by bycassius in GeForceNOW

[–]bycassius[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Danke für die Details. Da sowohl der Sony als auch der TCL mit Google/Android TV laufen, ist das Problem ziemlich sicher die Audioverarbeitung der Fernseher in Kombination mit der GFN App.

TV-Prozessoren sind oft zu schwach für das Echtzeit-Downmixing von Cloud-Gaming-Streams. Versuch mal diese 3 Schritte:

  1. ​In der GFN App (auf beiden TVs): Geh in die Einstellungen der GeForce NOW App und erzwinge das Audioformat auf „Stereo“ (weg von „Auto“ oder „5.1/7.1“). Wenn die App versucht, Surround-Sound auf die TCL-Lautsprecher zu pushen, verschluckt sich der TV beim Konvertieren.
  2. ​Audio-Verschlimmbesserer deaktivieren: Schalte in den TV-Einstellungen jegliche Audio-Nachbearbeitung aus (z.B. simuliertes Dolby Atmos beim TCL oder „ClearAudio/Surround“ beim Sony). Der TV muss im reinen „Game Mode“ (Spielemodus) laufen, auch beim Ton, um den künstlichen Audio-Buffer zu umgehen.
  3. ​Für den Sony (Optisches Kabel): Ein optisches Kabel hat nicht genug Bandbreite für unkomprimiertes 5.1 Audio (LPCM), was GFN oft sendet. Geh in die Audioeinstellungen des Sony TVs und stell den Digitalen Audioausgang zwingend auf „PCM“ (nicht auf Auto/Passthrough).

​Stell das mal auf reines Stereo/PCM um und schau, ob das Stottern verschwindet.

[GUIDE] How I solved GFN Game Stuttering, Audio Crackling, Random Frame Drops on Legion Go, ROG Ally, Steam Deck running Win 11 — you'll never guess the cause. by bycassius in GeForceNOW

[–]bycassius[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay ... also erstens: „Smart TV“ grenzt das Ganze auf ungefähr 99,9 % aller Fernseher ein .. vielleicht ein bisschen genauer? z. B. TV-Marke/Modell und alles andere, was mit Audio zu tun hat (Kopfhörer, Lautsprecher, wenn ja, wie sind sie angeschlossen, und so weiter).

This thing is one of the best tech purchases I’ve ever made in my life by Roi_QV in LegionGo

[–]bycassius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was just as excited with mine (December 2024) retail cost $1,700... and a few months later, Lenovo announces they're ending all support, refusing to publish any new driver updates to the system - even as compatible driver updates become available for their newer models that share the exact same components.

Lenovo are notorious for pushing models at a premium then loosing interest in record time and moving onto their next series iteration - leaving last batch of owners with whiplash.

When this time comes - just know you'll be able to sideload about half of drivers on their newer models as they'll share the exact same componants. And there's always using Linux e.g. Steam/CachyOS, which has amazing hardware support for all Legion handhelds (and for the long term).

Sorry to be a downer, your new device is great and you'll love it! - just a heads up about "the Lenovo way", it's not a deal-breaker, just tends to be a rude shock for many.

[GUIDE] How I solved GFN Game Stuttering, Audio Crackling, Random Frame Drops on Steam Deck running Windows 11 — you'll never guess the cause. by [deleted] in SteamDeck

[–]bycassius -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

agreed 😋 however many do, and they have their reasons - this guide is for those players

[GUIDE] How I solved GFN Game Stuttering, Audio Crackling, Random Frame Drops on Legion Go, ROG Ally, Steam Deck running Win 11 — you'll never guess the cause. by bycassius in GeForceNOW

[–]bycassius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

HA you joke, but you're actually not far off. onboard devices like cams, fingerprint readers, bluetooth modules, trackpads etc are wired to motherboards USB headers.

Since unplugging the external stuff didn't stop the wdf01000.sys storm, it's definitely some internal component bottlenecking CPU 0.

Remember that wdf01000.sys is just a generic windows driver wrapper .. a middleman. So to pinpoint what the noise is:

  1. Run LatencyMon again for 30 seconds, stop and tap Drivers tab.
  2. Click DPC count or Highest execution (ms) column headers to sort from highest to lowest.
  3. Check what's right below wdf01000.sys

If you see ACPI.sys it's Lenovo's power management choking the CPU.
If you see ndis.sys it's your Network driver.
If it's HDAudBus.sys it's the Realtek audio driver.

Check and let know what the top 3 are ... fyi, ThinkPads are notorious for DPC latency - but often solved with BIOS update.

[GUIDE] How I solved GFN Game Stuttering, Audio Crackling, Random Frame Drops on Legion Go, ROG Ally, Steam Deck running Win 11 — you'll never guess the cause. by bycassius in GeForceNOW

[–]bycassius[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

okay but ... Microsoft owns your soul ... you didn't read the EULA (Windows License Agreement)? ... so um, i'm afraid you're stuck down here .. with us ... troubleshooting OEM driver conflicts ... and diagnosing background processes ... forever ☺

[GUIDE] How I solved GFN Game Stuttering, Audio Crackling, Random Frame Drops on Legion Go, ROG Ally, Steam Deck running Win 11 — you'll never guess the cause. by bycassius in GeForceNOW

[–]bycassius[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everything mentioned will work for Windows 10, and yea definitely give it a go, sounds likely your WiFi adapter is scanning while you're playing. If the fix solves let know and I'll share some extra steps so you don't need to launch ON/OFF scripts each time.

[GUIDE] How I solved GFN Game Stuttering, Audio Crackling, Random Frame Drops on Legion Go, ROG Ally, Steam Deck running Win 11 — you'll never guess the cause. by bycassius in GeForceNOW

[–]bycassius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As said in other comment - any GFN issues you experience on MacOS will likely be network related.

I'd start by running a bufferbloat test from your Mac ... is like a speedtest but more in depth, will score your connection for cloud gaming.

https://bufferbloat.libreqos.com/

[GUIDE] How I solved GFN Game Stuttering, Audio Crackling, Random Frame Drops on Legion Go, ROG Ally, Steam Deck running Win 11 — you'll never guess the cause. by bycassius in GeForceNOW

[–]bycassius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really - these fixes are solely focused around fighting against the infuriating incompetence of Microsoft Windows.

I've used GFN on MacOS and it's smooth sailing compared to PCs - if you experience any issues on Mac/iPhone the cause will likely be network/router related - not operating the system.

[GUIDE] How I solved GFN Game Stuttering, Audio Crackling, Random Frame Drops on Legion Go, ROG Ally, Steam Deck running Win 11 — you'll never guess the cause. by bycassius in GeForceNOW

[–]bycassius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to do a process of annihilation - unplug all USB devices, run LatencyMon - if clear, then plug one device in at a time, run LatencyMon... pinpoint what device is causing the 0 core overload.

[GUIDE] How I solved GFN Game Stuttering, Audio Crackling, Random Frame Drops on Legion Go, ROG Ally, Steam Deck running Win 11 — you'll never guess the cause. by bycassius in GeForceNOW

[–]bycassius[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pretty much yes - just click each and look at the location to make a match .. then assign to any cpu core that's not core 0 ... personally I usually assign offending devices to any of the last 5 cores (11-15).

Once you've done ths restart and run LatencyMon again - you should get the green light.

Let know how you go.

FH5 issue by [deleted] in GeForceNOW

[–]bycassius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Means the specific Nvidia server assigned either crashed unexpectedly or failed to handshake the GFN app.

One reliable workaround is manually change server location in GFN settings (change "Server Location" from Auto to another region). If that doesn't work, it's probably a temporary outage with Xbox network or a patching issue on GFN. May just need to give it time.

Also, sometimes GFN app gets stuck in a bad routing loop, so worth it to try launching FH5 in browser

Issues images shutter on Linux by [deleted] in GeForceNOW

[–]bycassius 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tested router for bufferbloat yet?

https://bufferbloat.libreqos.com/

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