Wallpaper engine unstable after update

[André Vergilio]

Wallpaper engine is lagging terribly after todays update (11/26/2024). It also seems to read data a way more often from the disk. just clicking on the system tray icon take several seconds.

My setup:
Windows 11 23H2 (I didn't updated to 24H2 yet)
Intel i7 12700k
Nvidia RTX 3080
32GB RAM
2TB SSD NVME

[ShyGuy]

I'm having issues as well after this update, constant micro stuttering, yet minimal system performance usage on task manager. No spike, just stutters. Tried all tricks on the FAQ to no avail.

Windows 11
Intel I9 9900K
AMD RX7900 GRE
32GB DDR4 RAM
2TB NVME SSD

[Tim]

There has not been an update in the last few months, so not sure what you mean by "today's update".

Make sure no background recording tool is recording Wallpaper Engine by mistake. This can happen with Nvidia's in-game overlay for example or AMD's ReLive functionality. Check your graphics card drivers and ensure these features are turned off. When in doubt, perform a clean reinstallation of your graphics card drivers (uninstall first, then reinstall, including all extra software like Nvidia GeForce Experience).

[André Vergilio]

Originally posted by Tim:

There has not been an update in the last few months, so not sure what you mean by "today's update".

Make sure no background recording tool is recording Wallpaper Engine by mistake. This can happen with Nvidia's in-game overlay for example or AMD's ReLive functionality. Check your graphics card drivers and ensure these features are turned off. When in doubt, perform a clean reinstallation of your graphics card drivers (uninstall first, then reinstall, including all extra software like Nvidia GeForce Experience).

Today Steam updated something related to Wallpaper Engine that wasn't the usual workshop stuff, and my pc halted after that.

After made a clean driver install using DDU and not installing any Nvidia software besides the driver itself things went back to the normal.

If the developer didn't updated anything, than I have no idea what Steam sent me today. Maybe the worng shader cache...

[razz]

It constantly runs my gpu at %92 after the update. Check your task manager.

[André Vergilio]

Today wallpaper engine was updated again, and I didn't change anything on my system at all. If devs are not changing anything, so what is going on?

And no, wasn't the steamworks that updated, It was the software itself.

[Tim]

There was no update. If you see the Wallpaper Engine update process or Steam downloads, it must mean that Steam is running the validation process and redownloading critical files because they were broken or deleted. Make sure no antivirus app is interfering with the app directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\wallpaper_engine). If you have persistent problems like this, please try to do a clean reinstallation (a "normal" reinstallation would not suffice in cases like this):

https://help.wallpaperengine.io/debug/reset.html