AMD’s hotly anticipated Ryzen 9000 desktop processors launched earlier this month, and well, the gaming performance improvements seen by independent reviewers weren’t as hot as expected – or as hot as AMD attested to in early marketing statements. So what happened? It’s been a long, winding road as reviewers and AMD alike track down what happened. Last night, AMD released a community post pointing the finger at a variety of issues: A difference in the Windows mode used for testing, VBS security settings, how rival Intel systems were configured, and – as ever – the specific games benchmarked. P…