Recently, for maybe last 2-3 weeks, I have a very difficult time with Zoom meetings. The CPU usage hovers around 35%, video freezes or keeps going blank, sound is so scratchy I cannot understand a word or just freezes. I tested the meeting with Test Meeting at Zoom, and sometimes the CPU usage was barely 5-6%, sound was clear as a bell, at other times I had the same problems as with "real" meetings.  The size of the meeting does not matter, though the meetings with local attendees do not suffer from these glitches. I have not made any conscious changes to my system in the last 2-3 weeks.  Before these problems started 2-3 weeks ago all meetings were crystal clear and I had no problems whatsoever. Also, Google Meet and MS Teams are not affected, still working great as far as sound and video are concerned.  Same meetings on Zoom on my Android 10 phone are also still flawless.

I thought maybe my computers drivers need attention, so pointers to a good way to check and update the drivers would be welcomed.

Overall I would appreciate ideas or suggestions on logging the performance issues, and where to look or how to solve this problem.

Thanks!

I set a custom personal meeting code a long time ago and have been scheduling meetings where that code is automatically pulled into the meeting details when I create a new meeting.  Recently and without alert, Zoom has converted my personal code into a random code.  So, now, people cannot join any meetings with my personal code that was auto-generated in meeting requests before a certain date (not sure when this happened, but within the last few weeks.

My concern with changing my meeting code again is that any attendees to meetings I have created since they changed it may not be able to join my meetings.

Has this happened to anyone else and if so, what is the best course of action?  I have selected the option to embed passcode in invite link for one-click join, but it doesn't seem to be working consistently.

I feel like there has been nothing but problems since they required one of the 3 security options.  I don't want to use any of the options as we don't need that level of security in a small business.  It's been nothing but issues trying to bypass requiring a passcode.