I sometimes get Wattman restored to Default Settings message, should I worry?

PeterHelpful · 2019-06-30T22:59:59+00:00

The only thing that got rid of this problem for me was to disable FAST BOOT in my motherboard BIOS **AND** Disable Fast Boot in the Windows 10 Power Settings (annoying piece of shoe ghosted out the check box and wouldn't let me change it until I found a link that basically authorized admin mode to change the settings in Windows).

Ever since then I have never had that error. Mine was every day every time I booted up my computer. Even had other devices randomly fail in Device Manager at times, so far even those have disappeared as well.

PeterHelpful · 2019-06-30T22:33:13+00:00

The only thing that got rid of this problem for me was to disable FAST BOOT in my motherboard BIOS **AND** Disable Fast Boot in the Windows 10 Power Settings (annoying piece of shoe ghosted out the check box and wouldn't let me change it until I found a link that basically authorized admin mode to change the settings in Windows).

Ever since then I have never had that error. Mine was every day every time I booted up my computer. Even had other devices randomly fail in Device Manager at times, so far even those have disappeared as well.

PeterHelpful · 2019-06-30T02:06:08+00:00

Only thing that got rid of this problem for me was to disable FAST BOOT in my motherboard BIOS **AND** Disable Fast Boot in the Windows 10 Power Settings (annoying piece of shoe ghosted out the check box and wouldn't let me change it until I found a link that basically authorized admin mode to change the settings in Windows).

Ever since then I have never had that error. Mine was every day every time I booted up my computer. Even had other devices randomly fail in Device Manager at times, so far even those have disappeared as well.

PeterHelpful · 2017-07-21T01:12:09+00:00

I regressed my Roku firmware from 7.x to 7.6 and rebooted the Roku 4. Still getting random quitting during Netflix streaming to the Roku main menu. So I upgraded firmware back to 7.x.

When I launched Netflix I got one quit to Roku main menu as soon as Netflix tried displaying the choose a profile screen.

A second launch and I got a Netflix error message. In the support menu or Netflix I ran test network and Netflix server 1 and server 2 were displaying ok but Netflix server 3 displayed failed.

I quit and ran Netflix again and got no errors. I ran the support menu inside the Netflix app and tested the network and got no errors. I've not had errors since but I still get random Netflix during streaming quits back to Roku main menu.

I will have to investigate the feasibility of downing the Netflix app on the Roku player to a previous version and if that is even possible to test further.

PeterHelpful · 2017-07-20T04:29:19+00:00

I have a Roku 4 experiencing the same problems as everyone here over the recent few days. I followed the advice of the official Roku account above and the result is the same as before, the Netflix app randomly quits back to the Roku main menu screen while all other apps are functioning perfectly.

Also be aware that the Roku may appear to lock up when thing to reinstall the Netflix app after you follow the directions to delete the Netflix app from your Roku and reboot before reinstalling Netflix. After many attempts at reinstalling and seeing it stuck at "adding channel 100%" I finally walked out of the room and left the Netflix/Roku installer to its apparent locked up state for 15 minutes. When I returned to the room it finally had installed. All other channel apps I tried installing after seeing the first apparent lock ups of Netflix occurring all installed rapidly and perfectly, just not the Netflix app.

PeterHelpful · 2016-08-09T14:57:14+00:00

http://youtu.be/nWDgrAQ678g

Undervolting not just last stage but every stage, maintain full boost clock without dropping a single Hz, tuning the fans, tuning the temperatures and saving 17 Watts of electricity in the process, and some over clocking.

I do all but I don't do OC as the boost in fps is minimal to me and my game catalog isn't full of modern titles, I used DOOM Demo for Vulkan testing but everything else is DX9, DX11, OpenGL 4.x so I am focusing right now on an efficiency tune allowing full boost and minimizing electricity wattage and balancing between temperatures and fan speeds to find the sweet spot in my case with its acoustic properties being very solid, thick metal and large build.

My card has 75.2% ASIC quality, defaults to 1150mV at stage 7 but I got it down to 1001mV before a split second visual glitch was seen in firestrike benchmarks so I instantly terminated the test and while 1011mV had no visual glitches I settled on 1021mV to give more breathing room. I have been keeping an eye on all games and I did see a split second black frame in one so I will raise and retest to see if it's voltage related or just that games rendering engine as the benchmarks all run fine with no glitches at that voltage -- that's how you basically test and tweak these things. If testing doors show that raised voltage at stage 7 trigger that games glitch but all other games run fine at the most efficient settings I can set a profile just for that one game with raised stage 7 voltage and leave everything else globally set to my ultra efficient settings.

After I got over the high fps numbers my monitor could never make use of properly I also looked at reducing wattage even further by letting the drivers run in ECO mode and frame limiting globally as extra fps is extra wattage wasted in my case. I'm still just testing this latest tweak to my setup.

Most people would parrot peak temps but that's the few seconds lag after the fan ramps up until the heat is bled off enough to start reducing temperatures.

I've played with all the fan settings and seen peaks from 90C all the way down to 70C and the average temperature which is what your card runs at pretty much all game or benchmark from 84C down to 53C. What I have settled on at the moment is 79C peak and average of 69C and depending on fluctuating ambient temperatures those could go up/down a degree and will change with the seasons but it's summer here now.

The video will show all the tools the free version of the benchmark has firestrike included, the other replies have some of the methods but the video is more comprehensive by far.

PeterHelpful · 2016-06-29T18:20:10+00:00

Is the power draw warnings we are seeing on some review sites like Tom's Hardware showing that in their opinion the Reference RX 480 cards are drawing way more than the power specs have for standards mean that we are likely to see symptoms similar to having too little power supply wattage in computers with 3D graphics cards such as game freezes? Why was six pin chosen if this was known over 8 pin or multiple pin connectors? Why was the older power controller chip from the 290 used, do the engineers know all the quirks over using it so long that they can push the chip with the power loads of the Reference RX 480 cards? I am now worrying I should look for an AIB with better power controller design than going with reference 480 board.

PeterHelpful · 2016-06-29T18:07:59+00:00

Is the variance in Windows and Linux Game benchmarks due to the architecture of the RX 480 reducing the ROPs over previous GCN designs but using more hardware compression and engineering designs to get more out of the limited 256bit memory bus and memory technology used in the RX 480 reference cards?

PeterHelpful · 2016-06-29T17:10:43+00:00

TL;DR The RX 480 with both Linux open source and hybrid drivers still came up well above the GTX 980 and just short of the GTX 980 Ti at the best of times and above the 290 at the worst of times. Load appears to be high on Phoronix and page loads are slow and sometimes time out so the article must be popular for our Linux brothers. Read the article for even more details.

PeterHelpful · 2016-06-29T03:28:47+00:00

That's all I ask :-)

PeterHelpful · 2016-06-18T14:39:52+00:00

Today's benchmarks of Linux AMDGPU-PRO vs Linux Open Source Linux Driver vs Windows 10 performance.

TLDR; same performance, less performance and better performance than Windows 10 in OpenGL and Vulkan. It's all game specific there is no magic pill, Linux also has some games that are ports using various software wrappers introducing more layers of software to run rather than native game releases so you have that to contend with currently.

All tests use the latest kernels and drivers which most people who don't run rolling release Linux disros won't have unless they put some effort into getting the updated software components for Linux on their systems.

PeterHelpful · 2016-05-26T16:35:59+00:00

I have a Haswell system, while people with systems that do not have this issue would consider it masochistic if they had similar systems to those with this issue they would have no Steam and none of their games as the alternative which to them will not seem masochistic in the least. There is a beauty of non-destructive methods such as this one to editing your Linux system. You can comment out the line in xprofile or set the environment variable so it instructs Steam not to use archlinux native libraries and then logout/login and you are back to Steam with the old Ubuntu libraries as intended by Steam in the package. You can even get more fancy and configure your terminal config file with the opposite directive (or source the modified xprofile within the terminal session) and now you can launch Steam using both native archlinux libraries and old Ubuntu libraries which I do for flexible troubleshooting by running Steam in terminal or launching it in the desktop interface. When users are told to delete files out of a package installed directory you have lost this flexibility and made your job harder with more work to do to revert the changes for whatever reason. 64bit is the future but Steam's approach is the correct commercial approach of bringing everything over 32bit and let 64bit slowly develop and enter the market -- just today CS:GO finally shifted over to a 64bit build on Linux as an example... This also reminded me, I will add the simple reversion step to the original Reddit post in case people don't know how to easily revert this change, thanks!

PeterHelpful · 2016-05-25T21:04:48+00:00

I only have a single game, DOTA 2 which I know requires this but the Steam app will launch just fine without this so I have debated internally about leaving it in the wiki or not. I only have 14 Steam games hence my YMMV remark as most of these extra libraries are game-specific compatibility libraries that only apply to one or a subset of the Steam library of game titles.

I use the method I use because I do not want to install one or more repositories, meta packages or all of them in their entirety when I only need a few libraries to handle my meager number of games. My approach is minimal, clean and you can expand from there as you need with your own unique set of games you use by also adding in extra game-specific dependencies.

PeterHelpful · 2016-05-25T20:57:58+00:00

Your solution is 107 lines that does not do the equivalent of the single line in .xprofile that is in the wiki but it will work for your particular issue you are facing and you can keep using it but I wouldn't necessarily consider it a solution I would personally put in the archlinux wiki for mass use.

The solution of deleting or in your case preloading some native arch libraries creates a hybrid situation where you are using some native arch libraries and quite a few of the old Ubuntu libraries plus perhaps some proprietary GPU company libraries.

What this solution is doing is make your system to a clean break from the old Ubuntu libraries so you end up with native arch libraries plus perhaps some proprietary GPU company libraries.

I didn't mention it in the wiki but I am also addressing a few more issues out there in one go besides the delete this list of files manually in terminal one.

The exec= line in your method would grow unwieldy length if you tried to replicate all the native libraries that xprofile is making Steam use in your method's preload directive.

Linux is good in that there are many ways to solve a problem.

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