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Field report (0.8.2→0.8.4): metronomic stutter every ~3.7-4 s, each event a double-jolt, on ALL clients — and the same box stuttered on Apollo (virtual display) but not Sunshine (physical). The disturbance class is host-side display-topology events / display-poller software (SteelSeries-GG class, Apollo #480/#358/#368) hitting the virtual-display path. Three changes make the IDD path resilient to it and self-diagnosing: - DescriptorPoller: the display-descriptor CCD queries (QueryDisplayConfig twice per sample) serialize on the session-global display-config lock, which topology churn and display-poller software can hold for tens-to- hundreds of ms. Polled inline, that stall landed ON the capture/encode thread 4x/s — a periodic frame hitch, invisible in any log. A dedicated thread now samples every 250 ms and publishes a snapshot; the capture loop pays one uncontended mutex read, and a sample slower than 50 ms logs a rate-limited warn — the stall is measured instead of streamed. - Flap immunity: advanced_color_enabled returns Option (None on a failed query or the target briefly missing from the active paths during a re-probe) and the poller keeps last-known-good per field — a transient no longer reads as "HDR off", which used to cost an HDR session TWO spurious ring recreates (false, then true again a poll later). On top, a two-strikes debounce: only two consecutive samples agreeing on the same new descriptor trigger the recreate; a real "Use HDR" flip or game mode-set still lands in ~1/2 s. - RecoveryCadence: served recovery IDRs within 1.5 s coalesce into one event (a double-jolt's paired IDRs count once); four consecutive events evenly spaced (±20%) warn "client keyframe recoveries are METRONOMIC — a periodic host/display disturbance, not random network loss" with the measured period (re-warn ≤ every 30 s) — so an affected host self-diagnoses in its own log / web console instead of reporting "nothing in the logs". Unit tests include the field report's exact double-jolt-pair schedule. Verified: host tests + clippy clean on Linux and on the RTX box (211/211, --features nvenc). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>