Smrdgy
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- Nov 12, 2018
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Hey guys, I'm in a desperate need for help.
TL;DR
Suddenly Ren'Py games played from vmware are laggy and less responsive.
Today I resumed my tiny11 vmware instance only to see some error about a different cpu being detected or something like that (don't remember it specifically, but I've tasked chatgpt to find it based on my vague interpretation and this sounds about right: "CPU Mismatch Detected: The virtual machine's configuration is incompatible with the host CPU. This virtual machine may have been suspended on a different host with a different CPU configuration. The virtual machine cannot be powered on until the CPU compatibility is resolved.").
This error has happened to me before on a different VM instance when I switched from an old intel system to a new amd one, so I already knew what it was about. However this time it made no sense because there was no change in anything (HW, bios, windows updates, etc.), but I just shrugged it off and proceeded to shut down the vm so I can boot it again.
So I did that, then a new message appeared about a side channel mitigation that mentioned some performance loss, so I've read through it and proceeded further. The system booted fine and the whole OS is still snappy but unfortunately, when I launched Corrupted Kingdoms I could see individual frames of the main screen animation which was ~20h ago a smooth animation. This raised my suspicion so I loaded a save with a sex sequence and once again the animation was laggy and even seemed to be of a lower quality than before (I could see artifacts as if the video was upscaled and once again, they weren't there before). The menu is also less responsive (it takes about 2s to go in or out of the game, even with transitions disabled). After that I immediately went to check other games that have animations as well, to check if this is the only game that has the problem, but unfortunately not. I've checked 16 of them and all animations are choppy and the menus are slow.
After that I went to check what was that message about the mitigation that I've mentioned before, so I've found some post from 2020 that pointed me to add `ulm.disableMitigations = "TRUE"` to the vm's .vmx but that didn't helped either. And lastly I've tried to update everything: BIOS, windows, nvidia drivers, vmware and vmware tools. I do have 3 pending windows updates on the vm instance but I don't think I should do updates on tiny11 anyway.
I would be very grateful for any kind of hint or a solution.
TL;DR
Suddenly Ren'Py games played from vmware are laggy and less responsive.
Today I resumed my tiny11 vmware instance only to see some error about a different cpu being detected or something like that (don't remember it specifically, but I've tasked chatgpt to find it based on my vague interpretation and this sounds about right: "CPU Mismatch Detected: The virtual machine's configuration is incompatible with the host CPU. This virtual machine may have been suspended on a different host with a different CPU configuration. The virtual machine cannot be powered on until the CPU compatibility is resolved.").
This error has happened to me before on a different VM instance when I switched from an old intel system to a new amd one, so I already knew what it was about. However this time it made no sense because there was no change in anything (HW, bios, windows updates, etc.), but I just shrugged it off and proceeded to shut down the vm so I can boot it again.
So I did that, then a new message appeared about a side channel mitigation that mentioned some performance loss, so I've read through it and proceeded further. The system booted fine and the whole OS is still snappy but unfortunately, when I launched Corrupted Kingdoms I could see individual frames of the main screen animation which was ~20h ago a smooth animation. This raised my suspicion so I loaded a save with a sex sequence and once again the animation was laggy and even seemed to be of a lower quality than before (I could see artifacts as if the video was upscaled and once again, they weren't there before). The menu is also less responsive (it takes about 2s to go in or out of the game, even with transitions disabled). After that I immediately went to check other games that have animations as well, to check if this is the only game that has the problem, but unfortunately not. I've checked 16 of them and all animations are choppy and the menus are slow.
After that I went to check what was that message about the mitigation that I've mentioned before, so I've found some post from 2020 that pointed me to add `ulm.disableMitigations = "TRUE"` to the vm's .vmx but that didn't helped either. And lastly I've tried to update everything: BIOS, windows, nvidia drivers, vmware and vmware tools. I do have 3 pending windows updates on the vm instance but I don't think I should do updates on tiny11 anyway.
I would be very grateful for any kind of hint or a solution.