Hi Jonathan,
I think this all-round mount command for Google Drive on Windows will perform significantly better:
rclone mount --network-mode --buffer-size=0 --vfs-cache-mode=full --vfs-cache-max-age=720h --vfs-cache-max-size=10G --drive-pacer-min-sleep=10ms --drive-pacer-burst=200 --cache-dir=C:\rclone\cache\Gcrypt Gcrypt: x:
I don't know your free disk space and therefore set the max cache size to 10GB. The more disk space you can allocate to the cache the better. I don't see a need for rclone rc vfs/refresh recursive=true with this setup and therefore suggest you try disabling that.
The mount command is tuned to give good responsiveness in Windows Explorer. You may get even better performance by using the latest beta. It contains a fix to optimize the cooperation with Windows Defender.
The suggestion is based on this post, where you can find links to more info:
https://forum.rclone.org/t/mounting-cache-size/34589/7
Please let us know how it performs, perhaps we can optimize to your specific usage/data/machine - or learn/improve from your experiences.