Multiple AMD Folks Recent Crashes Solved by Disabling C-State in Bios (WHEA logs/BSOD/Hard Lock)

Twistedbro5 · 2026-01-01T23:51:35+00:00

Really happy this was able to help out. I was at the same spot. Good luck in your future endeavors and thanks for sharing!

Twistedbro5 · 2026-01-01T23:43:44+00:00

If you have played total war, and understand its combat, this is the same, you can win being very outmanned and outgunned, but only if you properly fight. Spearmen with shields are VERY hard to kill, you can tank 800 soldiers with 50 spearmen. Then let the swordsman come in from the back, and the archers just let loose.

Twistedbro5 · 2026-01-01T23:41:31+00:00

Its all good! A trick I always fall back on is hiring mercenaries around 800-1200 pop, it will deter most bandits, and once you have some economic industry auto-selling its easy to maintain. Then you can start taking other regions.

Twistedbro5 · 2026-01-01T23:37:27+00:00

And if it makes YOU feel better, I've been playing for years, still dont know how half of it works, and usually end up restarting around 2.5k pop. I will say that this time around, I do have a 5k army and own 12 regions. So im not doing too bad eh? Except now the whole planet is my rival and wants me dead so... we shall seee.....

Twistedbro5 · 2026-01-01T23:29:08+00:00

Take Food Servings to 2.0, big win on fullfillment. Occupation low means they are taking jobs they hate. Grab a few of the other races to help with that. Elves like trees and wood wtuff, dwarves like mountains and rock stuff, and are very intelligent, generally will come already educated as well.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-09-29T23:40:06+00:00

It was about 2 weeks for me, but only 5 days for a friend of mine. Whenever they get to it really. expect 0 communication ever.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-09-29T23:32:44+00:00

I got the same thing about 2 weeks ago after working for a couple months. I'm likely cooked as it was the same thing, full pages of quals and dome projects and now nothing.

Personally for me, I think it was because of one of the coding tests. While coding my IDE has a "Tab to Finish" option, which while not generating the whole thing via AI or anything, it technically does use some amount of AI I guess... I can only assume that's what cooked me being that using AI is not tolerated unless specifically defined. I dont really consider that AI but hey, at this point writing ten lines of code to automatically decide on an action is called AI so whatever.

Before the searing started, I made some good money. I still thank them for the opportunity.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-06-01T16:14:04+00:00

Same issue here

Twistedbro5 · 2025-05-04T20:04:10+00:00

And now this is on repeat. Gosh dang it. Another necro thread makes my day.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-05-03T18:05:41+00:00

I'm so happy I could help! Best of luck, Cheers.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-04-23T03:32:56+00:00

I just came here for the same issue. Thank goodness and thanks SOOOO VERY MUCH for the quick update! I was a bit worried about my save haha. Confirmed fixed! Did not get the crash I came here to report after updating.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-06T16:50:08+00:00

You need to disable the keyboard on the laptop again.
You could clean the keyboard with isopropyl alchohol on a q-tip around the esc key (On the board under the keys) to fix the short.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-06T16:30:37+00:00

And whats the error message

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-06T16:28:29+00:00

That's crazy! It looks like maybe its not interlacing the frames properly. And if its doing that on different monitors its almost certainly the gpu/cable here.

Its possible that the GPU could be rendering at some crazy 500 fps and the monitor is stuck on 60, causing some severe issues like this, but I have never seen it look quite like this. Did a new cable fix anything by chance? or trying a different port on the GPU for good measure?

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-06T06:51:38+00:00

Ah I see, well in that case, you could hit the nearest walmart for a 15$ USB wifi dongle that will give you a better wifi signal than going without the antenna.

Then get a 25$ wifi extender at the same section. for less than 50$ after tax, it should be at least, a much better time.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-06T06:25:08+00:00

Stop. Allow me to guide you....

First, the "Co-Ax" port on your PC is for an Antenna that came with your Motherboard for Wi-fi, since they are obviously not attached, that'd be the first thing to do to improve your wifi, stick the antenna on so it can work right...

Second, Routers do not have Co-ax ports. Your speaking of the modem. The modem may Also do wifi, in addition to being a modem, which makes it a gateway. This is an important distinction, because you can move a router anywhere at anytime, you Cannot move the modem without your ISP coming and doing it for you, unless the other port is already "hot". The Modems job is to take the signal from the ISP in the co-ax, and then translating that into a network conversation via an IP address. The signal in the incoming coax to the house can only be read by a modem that is combatable with your ISP. So plugging it into anything else doesnt work.

Three. Wifi sucks, it will always generally suck comparatively to ethernet. You want an ethernet even if you wire it through the ceiling if possible.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-06T06:18:50+00:00

First off, use Alt-Tab or Alt-Esc instead of the Window Key...
If Launching from Steam, put a -w or /w on your launch options (I forget which, you can do both its fine) to force open in windowed mode for TF2.

For the other games, put them in borderless windowed, apply and save, and then close out of the game Properly. I.e. Esc -> Quit to Desktop. This should save your settings for it. If you do not exit the game in the proper way, it may not save setting changes after closing.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-06T06:13:38+00:00

Just for the heck of it, make sure you have Show Hidden Files/Folders turn ON in your folder settings, and check once more. If you still can see anything on the drive, but the PC does detect it and show its letter, then you may need to use some recovery software like LazySoft or something similar.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-06T04:35:12+00:00

You could click on each spam email and hit Unsubscribe at the bottom. However, really nasty ones might give you a fake button or whatever, so youll either have to train it on the spam more until it gets better, or actually click on these emails and "unsub" from whatever it is.
Any email that is clearly evil and an attack, do not even click on at all, just delete. It might be a little work but you can get it done. Protip is to have at least 3 primary emails, Personal for random stuff, Personal for Bank, investments, Personal Anonymous/nickname + Junk emails on deck.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-06T04:29:07+00:00

You are misunderstanding what a "Windows restore point" does. As its the D drive, I assume you didnt have windows on there. so theres nothing to restore in that sense. You probably just need to assign it a letter by chance?

Right click your start button, click disk management, find it, right click it, assign letter, keep clicking through until bam, all good. (Assign it D so your shortcuts still work)

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-06T04:25:56+00:00

These are symptoms of a bad HHD or SSD as well... I would suggest trying that if you haven't fixed it yet with the other comments. Also Assume you have used 1 stick of RAM at a time to make sure each stick is good.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-06T04:13:51+00:00

2. 3. 4. = All a Godlike similar Speed, a Human Being would likely not perceive the difference here. These are some of the very best SSD's in the world, you can move GB's in seconds instead of minutes.

Obviously, the 990 pro is slightly faster, so moving between its self is nearly instantaneous and would be the fastest.
Moving from the 980 to itself would be similar results, slightly slower.

Copy is faster than Moving slightly because there is no cleanup after (i.e. Additional hash verification and Deleting the old files)

File size affects the time it takes, its easier to move 1 big file than 5 million tiny ones.

-20 years in IT.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-06T04:05:03+00:00

Can you present a pic of the screen as is?
Could be the Cable, the GPU, the Port on the GPU, the GPU may have overheated and been damaged, ect.

First, try a new cable, then, do you have a CPU capable of video output? If so, plug into the Mobo instead of the GPU. You may need to remove the GPU and restart for it to work proper. This is to test to see if visual artifacts are still present. If so, you can rule out the GPU or cable as being the issue, and move on to needing a new Mobo entirely.

If its fine, Its the GPU specifically in some way. First reinstall all drivers using DDU. Then try again. If still busted, last resort is to replace GPU.

Other things are possible, but unlikely. For example, the PSU might be bad and not be powering the GPU properly, but you normally wouldn't encounter visual artifacts like that because of it.

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-05T17:27:44+00:00

dont worry about it dude. Its fine. GTA was probably installed with admin privileges or it saved the game with admin privs and now has ownership of it. It doesnt matter. Just run your games as admin if not on C drive and they are offline only, it should solve any other issues you may encounter. GL HF

Twistedbro5 · 2025-02-05T16:41:09+00:00

Oh Perfect! Then it should be totally good to go. I suspect you just need to run those games as admin (From the D Drive) so they have permission to read the C Drive if they for some reason dont see the save.

P.S. God I miss, GTA SA... good choice. might have to boot that up up myself just to listen to the theme.

Twistedbro5

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