Is your Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC not working as well after a recent update? Is there an AMD chip in your device? If so, that may be where the problem lies.
PCs with an AMD Ryzen chip on board are experiencing performance problems since a recent Windows update. Both Windows 10 and Windows 11 machines are facing choppy performance issues, slow load times and other problems.
The problem is in the TPM module firmware in the BIOS of AMD Ryzen motherboards. AMD confirms the problem and clarifies where the fault is.
“Some AMD Ryzen system configurations may intermittently execute multiple fTPM-related memory transactions in the SPI flash memory (SPIROM) on the motherboard. While this is happening, the system stutters until the transaction completes.”
AMD is working on a patch, but it would not be made available until early May. PC manufacturers must offer the update as a BIOS update.
For those who don’t want to wait that long, AMD offers a temporary solution. You can switch from an fTPM (firmware TPM) to a dTPM (discrete TPM) in the motherboard’s separate TPM 2.0 header. Disadvantage there is that such separate modules cost an average of 50 to 100 euros in online stores and you have to disable Bitlocker encryption when you switch from fTPM to dTPM.