What does HRESULT 0x88980422 (UCEERR_TRANSPORTOVERLOADED) mean?

 
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UCEERR_TRANSPORTOVERLOADED

UCEERR_TRANSPORTOVERLOADED is a Windows User Composition Engine (UCE) HRESULT. It indicates that the composition channel cannot keep up with the volume of pending graphics or visual-update traffic.

What to check for UCEERR_TRANSPORTOVERLOADED

  • Profile high-frequency property changes, animation, layout invalidation, and rendering callbacks.
  • Coalesce frequent updates and avoid generating work faster than the rendering channel can consume it.
  • Check for a blocked renderer or GPU issue if the workload is normally modest.

Microsoft guidance for WPF render-thread failures

Diagnostic interpretation

This result has the HRESULT value 0x88980422. AllStat records the condition as “it”.

Evidence to capture

  • Capture any IErrorInfo text, activity identifier, event-log entry, and subsystem trace that mentions this result or the uceerr / transportoverloaded operation.
  • compare the failing machine with a working one at the same configuration boundary: component version, policy, registration, identity, and target resource.

Retry and recovery

Retry this result only when the owning API documents a transient state or after the condition described as “it” has changed.


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