Help! with automatic wallpaper change issue

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I dont know If I can put it here because I don't see any generic Software issue forum. So whenever I play a game and/or watch any movie on my Windows 11 the wallpaper disappears and goes black screen with just my desktop icons sitting as is. I restart the system and is back again.
My Windows copy is genuine.
I have Auto play disabled.
Not enabled desktop background with images from Microsoft's library to rotate.
No malware that am aware.

Can someone suggest what's wrong ?
 
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I don't know what's the reason but you can try removing graphics driver by DDU then installing the graphics driver. if not resolved try windows in place upgrade, you download the Windows ISO, then double click to open it, and you simply run the setup.exe file inside it and follow the prompts. One of the choices lets you keep your apps
and files.
 
This could happen if your video players has hardware rendering/acceleration enabled. Try disabling hardware rendering and see if this changes anything. You could also turn off hadware acceleration in display settings. From what you told me, this should solve the issue. However, please be aware that for the most part I am an idiot and I barely know things.
 
soulweaver said:
Try disabling hardware rendering and see if this changes anything. You could also turn off hadware acceleration in display settings.
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This is not recommended unless one knows exactly what they are doing. Disabling hardware acceleration may result in very high processor usage under certain scenarios especially in laptops resulting in high temps & also inability to play certain videos.
 
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guest_999 said:
This is not recommended unless one knows exactly what they are doing. Disabling hardware acceleration may result in very high processor usage under certain scenarios especially in laptops resulting in high temps & also inability to play certain videos.
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I was suggesting this too see if the issue was with the display drivers. Not as a permanent solution. :)
 
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