Dual screen animated wallpaper - now the main screens wallpaper has 1fps

[minefield]

I've been using Wallpaper Engine for years now without a problem.

Now all of a sudden the wallpaper on my Primary monitor is a stuttering mess.
All performance settings are at the lowest, but every time I start my PC the wallpaper stars out as a juddering mess, though when I change the settings in any way the problem fixes itself.

Weird thing is that the second monitors wallpaper displays and flows fine.

i'm on the latest W11 update and latest NVIDIA drivers.

Not sure why this continuously happens now

[elsewhere]

Same here. I have no clue what is going on. I think the Windows update broke Wallpaper Engine because no matter what settings I have my live wallpapers on my dual-monitor look like a slideshow.

[minefield]

Changing the setting to another option fixes it temporarily, but upon restart the slideshow begins anew...

[是第一个被抓的]

same problem.

[elsewhere]

I think I've discovered a fix.
In the General Tab of settings look for an option that says "Video Framework" and set that as "Prefer Media Foundation" and under that enable the tickbox that says "Media Foundation Stutter Fix" and next make sure "Video Hardware Acceleration" is set to Disabled. Set "Video Loading" to "From Disk"

Under ADVANCED disable the option that says "Pause when VRAM is exhausted" and also disable "High Precision Timers" if it is enabled. Hit OKAY and restart Wallpaper Engine.

No more stuttering.

[minefield]

Originally posted by elsewhere:

I think I've discovered a fix.
In the General Tab of settings look for an option that says "Video Framework" and set that as "Prefer Media Foundation" and under that enable the tickbox that says "Media Foundation Stutter Fix" and next make sure "Video Hardware Acceleration" is set to Disabled. Set "Video Loading" to "From Disk"

Under ADVANCED disable the option that says "Pause when VRAM is exhausted" and also disable "High Precision Timers" if it is enabled. Hit OKAY and restart Wallpaper Engine.

No more stuttering.

Hey thanks for this. Turns out I have these exact same settings applied. I have noticed the stuttering is much less than what it used to be, but there's still stuttering every now and then but just not as consistent as what it was when it first started to occur.

Prior to this issue becoming a thing the performance was flawless no matter what setting had been applied.

[elsewhere]

Originally posted by minefield:

Originally posted by elsewhere:

I think I've discovered a fix.
In the General Tab of settings look for an option that says "Video Framework" and set that as "Prefer Media Foundation" and under that enable the tickbox that says "Media Foundation Stutter Fix" and next make sure "Video Hardware Acceleration" is set to Disabled. Set "Video Loading" to "From Disk"

Under ADVANCED disable the option that says "Pause when VRAM is exhausted" and also disable "High Precision Timers" if it is enabled. Hit OKAY and restart Wallpaper Engine.

No more stuttering.

Hey thanks for this. Turns out I have these exact same settings applied. I have noticed the stuttering is much less than what it used to be, but there's still stuttering every now and then but just not as consistent as what it was when it first started to occur.

Prior to this issue becoming a thing the performance was flawless no matter what setting had been applied.

Also check to make sure the program's priority is set to Normal. Because for some reason when Wallpaper Engine got its newest update it broke High Priority settings on dual screen setups because it now doesn't allocate usage correctly resulting in all sorts of spikes and whatnot. I think it's an issue with how it offloads stuff to the GPU.

[minefield]

Will give this a go and see if it makes a difference, cheers

[zoppy]

Hi! I think I've been having the same issue - I have a dual display setup on a PC with dedicated graphics card (NVIDIA) and have had some serious performance issues - second monitor has sever stuttering with the wallpaper (ONLY on clone single wallpaper, simply settings the second display up separately fixes this) and notably higher GPU usage from just wallpaper engine (both with clone and separate wallpaper rendering).
I fixed the problem by rolling back to the previous version of wallpaper engine.
To be clear, I believe it to be an issue with either NVIDIA or Windows as the last wallpaper engine update dropped on the 5th of June[steamdb.info] and I have only recently experienced this issue. I have also recently switched to the new NVIDIA app (maybe the culprit?).
No other changes to wallpaper engines settings itself seemed to resolve the high GPU usage and flickering (I toggled about all of them; media foundation stuttering fix, high precision timers, etc.).
I've also had this white infrequent flickering appearing on my taskbar only while wallpaper engine is running as well - possibly something to do with transparency as when I disabled transparent effects on my taskbar the issue resolved itself.
Maybe drop a comment if this is also happening to you so it can get looked into.

Details; Windows 11 version 23H2, NVIDIA GTX 1650 Super