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Probably timeBeginPeriod WinAPI called by that media player: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/timeapi/n...



Google Chrome had exactly that effect and at least in the past running Google Chrome made some software to function correctly. (Although perhaps there's also some software timeBeginPeriod(1) affects negatively.)

Doesn't help when your testers run Google Chrome all the time...




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