Animate between times setting causes momentary freezing every 60s

[Dragonjinx]

On fresh startup of windows 11, when the animate between times setting is on, there is a perceivable freeze, as well as a ~1s dip in GPU usage corresponding to this freeze.

In addition, when hovering over the twinkle tray icon, this same freeze occurs, as well as the dip in GPU usage.

Workaround has been to disable animate between times, wait for the 60s cycle to pass and re-enable. This also solves the freezing when hovering above the twinkle tray icon.

Brightness transition speed does not matter, the functionality of the animate between times setting stays consistent both before and after the workaround.

Report generated from twinkle tray:
tt-report-1782525232955.txt

Edit, additional context:

• GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3070 OC, reproduced on multiple recent Nvidia drivers
• CPU: AMD 7800X3D

[Dragonjinx]

I tried running twinkle tray with the --console flag, and have found some culprits:

Trace from when Animate between times is set to true

-------------- Refresh Monitors --------------
 M  getHDRDisplays() Total: 0ms
===--- NO CHANGE ---===
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Event: handleAccentChange
Function: getThemeRegistry
Function: getThemeRegistry
Function: getThemeRegistry
Checking for updates...
Function: getThemeRegistry
Found version: v1.17.2
Event: handleAccentChange
Function: getThemeRegistry
Event: handleBackgroundUpdate
Recieved new settings { adjustmentTimeAnimate: true }
Recieved new settings {}
Event: handleAccentChange
Function: getThemeRegistry

-------------- Refresh Monitors --------------
 M  getHDRDisplays() Total: 0ms
===--- NO CHANGE ---===
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-------------- Refresh Monitors --------------
 M  getHDRDisplays() Total: 1ms
===--- NO CHANGE ---===
----------------------------------------------
Event: handleBackgroundUpdate
New day (or forced)... resetting lastTimeEvent
Adjusting brightness automatically {
  brightness: 54,
  time: '12:30',
  monitors: {
    '\\\\?\\DISPLAY#GSM5C4D#5&6fa92fe&1&UID4353': 50,
    '\\\\?\\DISPLAY#GSM5C4C#5&6fa92fe&1&UID4355': 50,
    '\\\\?\\DISPLAY#GSM780F#5&6fa92fe&1&UID4356': 50
  },
  useSunCalc: true,
  sunCalc: 'sunrise',
  value: 301
}

-------------- Refresh Monitors --------------
Requesting update too soon. 3645ms left.
----------------------------------------------
Saved known displays!

-------------- Refresh Monitors --------------
 M  getHDRDisplays() Total: 1ms
----------------------------------------------

-------------- Refresh Monitors --------------
 M  getHDRDisplays() Total: 0ms
===--- NO CHANGE ---===
----------------------------------------------
Event: handleBackgroundUpdate
New day (or forced)... resetting lastTimeEvent
Adjusting brightness automatically {
  brightness: 54,
  time: '12:30',
  monitors: {
    '\\\\?\\DISPLAY#GSM5C4D#5&6fa92fe&1&UID4353': 50,
    '\\\\?\\DISPLAY#GSM5C4C#5&6fa92fe&1&UID4355': 50,
    '\\\\?\\DISPLAY#GSM780F#5&6fa92fe&1&UID4356': 50
  },
  useSunCalc: true,
  sunCalc: 'sunrise',
  value: 301
}

-------------- Refresh Monitors --------------
 M  getHDRDisplays() Total: 0ms
===--- NO CHANGE ---===
----------------------------------------------
Saved known displays!

When this setting is toggled, the following block is given every 60s, which corresponds to the freeze I am having:

Adjusting brightness automatically {
  brightness: 54,
  time: '12:30',
  monitors: {
    '\\\\?\\DISPLAY#GSM5C4D#5&6fa92fe&1&UID4353': 50,
    '\\\\?\\DISPLAY#GSM5C4C#5&6fa92fe&1&UID4355': 50,
    '\\\\?\\DISPLAY#GSM780F#5&6fa92fe&1&UID4356': 50
  },
  useSunCalc: true,
  sunCalc: 'sunrise',
  value: 301
}

In addition, the following block is displayed every time I hover the TwinkleTray icon:

-------------- Refresh Monitors --------------
 M  getHDRDisplays() Total: 0ms
===--- NO CHANGE ---===
----------------------------------------------

Which normally, does not cause any freeze, but when Animate between times is set, causes the same freeze as the previous block.

Both these blocks consistently cause the freeze with Animate between times, which is stopped when it's toggled off, and on again.

[Dragonjinx]

I guess I'll fork it and investigate what causes the automatic brightness adjustment to be so badly behaved, when the corresponding actions triggered manually don't have the same issues.

[xanderfrangos]

Whoops, didn't mean to close this. I have a potential fix that will be in v1.18.0-beta2.