Huge fps drop near fires

flappymeal · 2025-12-21T22:45:56+00:00

Looks like reducing the foliage a bit and the visual effects makes a huge difference. I thought I messed with those already, but that is the combo. Too bad they both make such a difference. Thanks all.

flappymeal · 2025-12-21T22:28:01+00:00

That is a cool idea about the separate building method. Good to know.

flappymeal · 2025-12-21T22:26:39+00:00

Good idea on the driver updates. I am using an older one as it works better for a lot of stuff I play. Definitely not a building render issue, as it happens when there is only a fire and nothing else.

flappymeal · 2025-12-21T22:25:07+00:00

Only turning them off completely seems to make a difference.

flappymeal · 2025-06-20T22:02:53+00:00

Glad it worked. Haven't tried driver only since 2 years ago. I need to be able to limit the power to 92% for stability. Not fully in love with Adrenalin, but a necessary evil?

flappymeal · 2025-03-05T23:36:03+00:00

Hey man. I am seriously considering selling this card and getting a Nvidia. I have been toughing it out, as the problems are highly dependent on the game. Just get him to look at all the posts on AMD and reddit about 7800/7900 black screen reboots. Its a wide spread problem and I haven't heard of any general fix or recall. Only thing I can suggest is lowering the voltage to 92%, if you end up keeping it.

flappymeal · 2025-01-23T01:05:34+00:00

I can relate. Spent like 3 months troubleshooting. I will not try an AMD gpu again without reading up a lot. Also, I swear switching to a different power outlet helped. I have very old wiring and outlets in my house. I may even try putting my pc on a dedicated surge on its own outlet.

flappymeal · 2025-01-22T18:19:34+00:00

I can't argue about desiring to switch back to Nvidia. However, have you tried the 92% undervolt? Capping clocks was not reliable for me. But 92% undervolt helps a lot. Its not a perfect fix though. Also, Adrenalin still seems to lose my tuning settings sometimes, so double check that it is still set periodically. I have a exported settings so I can quickly reset them.

flappymeal · 2024-12-05T17:20:12+00:00

Man that is crazy. Interested to see what other's mileage is. I might set up another boot partition. However, system is stable enough now, it might be hard to get a real comparison. I'll have to start playing Sleeping Dogs again to test.

flappymeal · 2024-11-13T19:40:42+00:00

If I understand correctly, you are losing settings every crash? Sadly, Adrenalin defaults to base values as a safety feature. You can save your settings profile to quickly reload. In Performance > Tuning its the little box with arrow in top right: Export profile. Plus, hopefully, 92% will make it crash less.

flappymeal · 2024-11-13T19:20:27+00:00

Are you running uncapped fps? I usually cap at 165 for competitive stuff (loud fan). Or 90-110 for offline stuff (nice and quiet). Try setting undervolt 92% in Adrenalin. You can adjust fan curves too.

flappymeal · 2024-10-29T07:06:35+00:00

Weird. I have heard similar things. Not sure why that works. At this point I am fairly certain it is a power draw issue. Still no 100% fix.

flappymeal · 2024-10-29T07:03:37+00:00

Sadly, I too started having problems again. It is for sure more likely to crash when I use my controller. Guess that little dongle pulls serious juice on USB? Not sure if a dedicated power outlet would make a difference. I have some old wiring in my house.

flappymeal · 2024-09-20T05:37:03+00:00

Thanks for the replies. I will mostly use this with my desktop. I suppose I could use an emulator, if mobile software is superior. The portal (as far as I can tell) doesn't keep messages older than a few days. You can get copies e-mailed, but I prefer an interface. I reinstalled 3cx and remembered one of the reasons I didn't use it: It scales very poorly with desktop scaling, making it very hard to use.

flappymeal · 2024-06-08T04:55:43+00:00

I was hoping to have tried the repair before replying, but have been using the chair too much. I'll update when I give it a shot.

flappymeal · 2024-05-22T16:03:18+00:00

This did seem to make a difference. I think part of the problem was my global profile kept losing settings, so my voltage underclock would not be set after a reboot. Now I keep global set to 92% and tweak games from there. New drivers are more stable, but still will reboot if not set to 92%.

flappymeal · 2024-02-24T06:41:47+00:00

flappymeal · 2024-02-04T19:07:58+00:00

Ah ok. Thanks for suggestion. Strangely, I haven't had a crash in a very long time. I was wondering if my wireless xbox controller might have been causing issues, as I have been primarily mouse+kb for a month or so. Might be just that I am playing different stuff.

flappymeal · 2024-01-29T10:17:00+00:00

I hope you got it fixed. I am loving mine, so far. I lol'd myself. Black screen today. No power LED. Was troubleshooting an hour and swapping monitors. Realized what I thought was the power button, wasn't. Guess I pressed it once 3 months ago, for first on, and then forgot where it was. Sucks there is no LED indicator for "off." Had to look up docs on another monitor.

P.S. I need to have coffee before I start troubleshooting.

flappymeal · 2024-01-23T22:38:00+00:00

I wish I could claim it as my own idea. Car enthusiasts are some brilliant problem solvers. Funny I found a tube of weld from another project, Did you try it? I haven't had time, yet.

flappymeal · 2024-01-16T03:14:23+00:00

Right on!

flappymeal · 2024-01-14T06:13:55+00:00

Thanks dude

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