A recent Windows update has apparently added a second problem to the original NVIDIA Display adapter issue.
See this ticket in Microsoft Developer Community: No Data in CPU Usage Tool, Windows Update related
Recently a Windows Update broke the CPU Usage tool in Visual Studio
where no data is collected. After analyzing the tool will report,
“There is no data in the current set of filters”. This is due to a bug
in the Windows ETW subsystem such that profiling events are not
emitted, we are working with the Windows ETW team to root cause the
issue and create a fix. As this affects ETW, the underlying system
which creates the profiling data, this will affect any ETW profiler:
Visual Studio, PerfView, WPA, XPerf, etc.
This is also discussed in the Microsoft Developer Community link in Andrey’s answer, profiling CPU still states no user code was running. Scroll down to Mar 17, 2021.
It seems that there is now another underlying root cause besides the
original NVIDIA one which is breaking ETW profiling system wide. This
means any ETW profiler (Visual Studio, WPA, PerfView, etc) will be
affected since all of them rely on the same ETW system. Unfortunately
the EnableTraceEx2 system call returns success and we end up with no
profiling data in the resulting trace which is making debugging
difficult. I’m engaging with the Windows team that owns the ETW
subsystem and will most likely need additional diagnostics once we
figure out what our next steps are. In the meantime if anyone has paid
product support licenses feel free to engage with that as well,
hopefully working together we can uncover the root cause. Once I get
more information from the ETW team I’ll report back, until then stay
tuned.
Hi folks, just wanted to let everyone know that we have engaged with
the Windows ETW team on this and they are investigating. It seems like
a recent Windows Update may have caused this issue and they are
working with an internal customer in Xbox who has a repro. When I have
more info on the cause, workaround, and fix I will let everyone know.
In the mean time stay tuned.