More worrying news for AMD owners whose running Windows 11 … however, I’m sure a fix will come sooner than later.
Taken from Hothardware … If you haven’t been keeping up with Windows news, Windows 11 is really trying to be tough on security. As part of that push, one of its major requirements is that your system must have a Trusted Platform Module, or TPM. Historically speaking, that was a physical device on your motherboard that provided an immutable security key for the system to use with two-factor encryption.
Most motherboards do not include a physical TPM, but modern systems can generally emulate it. AMD refers to this feature as fTPM, with the “f” standing for “firmware”. As a result, when Microsoft announced that Windows 11 would require TPM support, a lot of people shrugged, turned on fTPM, and made the jump to the latest version of Windows.
Since Windows 11’s release, though, reports of performance problems have slowly been piling up on various forums, particularly from AMD users. Reddit users in particular have been vocal about it, as well as customers on Lenovo’s support forums, with threads that detail user accounts all complaining about the same problem, and reporting that it was resolved by disabling fTPM.
Source: Hothardware
