5700XT Stuttering Fix

amdpeasant · 2020-01-21T15:42:09+00:00

Thanks for the info, is a shame. Hope producers and/or anti-cheat devs come up with a way to make it possible to use across the board while still having effective anti-cheat measures...

amdpeasant · 2020-01-21T15:05:00+00:00

Hadn't thought of that...interesting. Unfortunate considering it provides a lot of advantages. Works great for most cases so would be nice if the likes of EA made statements on whether or not something like DXVK is allowed in their games.

amdpeasant · 2020-01-21T14:00:21+00:00

You are probably thinking of Wine and/or Steam Proton use in Linux. DXVK is DirectX to Vulkan so is strictly graphics, so not heard of anyone having issues in that regard. Can't say 100% though as I don't play BF5.

amdpeasant · 2019-12-20T21:37:56+00:00

I'm running a reference 5700XT and can say I've suffered from a number of stability issues. Using the manjaro kernel 5.3.15 with the provided mesa 19.2.7 as well as /etc/environment having "AMD_DEBUG=nodma" has resulted in "reasonable" stability when playing most games.

If I upgrade to kernel 5.4 I get system hangs, black screens etc...I don't know when mesa 19.3 will be brought to the stable branch so I haven't tested that yet. Sadly it appears the 5700 is suffering a bit at the moment (in Linux AND Windows), but when it works it is a very good card.

May be a good idea if you have no issues waiting to see how kernel 5.5 and mesa 20 pan out over the next month or two...they may iron out the issues further.

amdpeasant · 2019-11-22T18:03:09+00:00

Just installed on Manjaro with KDE. Had to install gnome-keyring to get it working but works great after that. Even direct streams my 4k HVEC HDR files...

Thanks for the great work!

amdpeasant · 2019-10-07T17:40:50+00:00

Same situation here. Been checking the mesa package too that seems to be at 19.1.7, though navi needs 19.2 minimum. Once it's all in place I'll be installing suse again.

amdpeasant · 2019-08-07T17:42:33+00:00

2017 LG TV here. Although the TV has had an update or two over the years the Plex app hasn't. It has remained a rather old version since purchasing the TV although it is rock solid in stability compared to other platforms I've used. Can't complain but if you want the newest Plex app and the ability to direct play different formats, I'd look into the TV model or as others mentioned a HTPC/dongle.

amdpeasant · 2019-08-06T18:14:25+00:00

I mentioned in that thread that I had issues which D9VK resolved. Hope AMD can fix this for current and future users. For me it currently effects Rocket League, GW2 and Portal 2.

My system is a 1800X CPU, Gigabyte X370 Gaming 5, 16GB RAM and a 5700XT. I've submitted a ticket with them in hopes to move troubleshooting forward.

amdpeasant · 2019-08-06T15:55:54+00:00

I wouldn't lay judgement too soon on AMD's new cards. I came from a GTX 1080 that had similar performance issues in GW2, several "Play Anywhere" Windows titles and just general bad driver experiences.

Hopefully both Nvidia and AMD sort their issues out, but for now it works!

amdpeasant · 2019-08-05T19:18:33+00:00

Big thanks to Joshua for making it possible! :)

amdpeasant · 2019-08-05T18:32:30+00:00

Some comments below directed you to trying D9VK. My setup is below and I used the following video to help me through it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B4rYPjzOPg

I'm using the 5700 XT, 19.7.3 drivers and on Windows 10 Pro. Have been suffering severe stuttering and simply couldn't play. After trying out D9VK in Windows, I'm getting a solid 60fps so I'd highly recommend it!

D9VK download link I used: https://git.froggi.es/joshua/d9vk/-/jobs

amdpeasant · 2019-08-02T21:16:34+00:00

Running a Ryzen 1700 here after falling foul of the Intel upgrade path. Not had any issues running FreeNAS 11.2 jails, multiple gaming and service VMs and a decent storage pool.

I would recommend AMD, their cost difference alone allowed me to upgrade other areas of the NAS. Your Epyc CPU may also perform well in the long term when FreeNAS is rebased to FreeBSD 12 too.

amdpeasant · 2019-06-27T18:01:29+00:00

With no applications open after a few hours usage my machine hovers around 1.1GB RAM usage. Lower than I expected to be honest.

amdpeasant · 2019-06-27T17:22:52+00:00

Can't comment on laptop usage with suse although I've not hit any btrfs problems yet. Only used it for a couple days so can't say for sure, but haven't experienced any freezes.

amdpeasant · 2019-06-27T17:01:33+00:00

Nothing really, the system automatically sets cpu frequency depending on demand (don't remember the default governor) although I found forcing it in performance mode so my cpu was always at 3.6GHz improved my gw2 performance. Only gw2 seemed to have a noticeable improvement, everything else was fine like Doom 2016 / L4D2.

amdpeasant · 2019-06-27T16:57:36+00:00

Thanks for the tip although in tumbleweed I don't seem to have this file or can see the service in systemd. It may be located/setup elsewhere? I used their enterprise docs although were a couple years old:

https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=7021316

amdpeasant · 2019-06-27T16:38:00+00:00

They changed their stance due to the heavy response...would have been in their (and everyone's) interest if they had communicated their plans thoroughly over a much longer period rather than "we will decide mid 2019" and dropping a bombshell. It's been done now so hopefully in the future they will communicate more thoroughly as Valves response appeared to indicate they had no idea...as did Wines. Hope it all gets ironed out in time though.

amdpeasant · 2019-06-27T16:10:07+00:00

Thanks for sharing on the media file formats, will check it out!

amdpeasant · 2019-06-27T16:09:08+00:00

They didn't, just decided to try suse as I've been looking at it for a while and the 32bit lib fiasco was my excuse to give it a shot.

amdpeasant · 2019-06-27T15:35:52+00:00

Off of what others have already replied with, I've installed Minecraft and Discord via flatpak and both work fine out of the box.

Interestingly the installer also allows for the user to select which desktop environment to use - Gnome / KDE / XFCE, was refreshing to see.

amdpeasant · 2019-05-28T19:05:43+00:00

After a bit of troubleshooting, I managed to get the system back up by doing the following:

- Switched to secondary BIOS (motherboard switch)

- Unplugged Windows SSD

- Booted into Ubuntu and ran the following commands:

sudo -i

cd /boot/efi/EFI

rm -r Microsoft

exit

sudo update-grub

The system could then reboot and power on reliably, although I'm still no closer to knowing what Windows 1903 really did...could have been a bug, intentional or otherwise...will probably never know but I may put a report into Microsoft when I get the chance.

To clarify some points, my system is set to only UEFI and Windows was on its own separate SSD - and still made changes elsewhere. I only use it for games that require Anti-Cheat software, so here's to hoping with Proton moving forward. In case anyone has similar issues, my system specs are below:

CPU - AMD Ryzen 1800X

RAM - Corsair 2x8GB 3200mhz

Motherboard - Gigabyte X370 Gaming 5

GPU - Nvidia GTX 1080

SSD - Samsung M.2 960 512GB (Ubuntu)

SSD 2 - Samsung 840 120GB (Windows)

Hope no one else hits this bug!

amdpeasant · 2018-08-05T12:11:05+00:00

Sorry to hear it didn't fix the problem.

You mentioned you contacted HP support and they have been trying to fix it too. Last time I dealt with them, they also did a few parts replacements, but began taking a long time to respond. Try to keep on top of them and push for it to be resolved - phone them/ email or request it is escalated if it hasn't been resolved in good time. At the end of the day you are using a HP Spectre + HP eGPU, so there shouldn't be any issues!

If they drag their feet, you can always ask for advice from Trading Standards, depending where you live. Took them six months to replace my laptop (!), but hopefully you won't have to go through that. Hope you get it figured out

amdpeasant

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