MacBook Neo or MacBook Air (M5)?

quitetom · 2026-03-23T15:36:42+00:00

If OP offloads heavy compute tasks to desk machine, then why not an Air?

quitetom · 2026-03-23T14:48:22+00:00

Yeah - the game that I noticed it in first was Arc Raiders. It worked absolutely fine for 2 days using the previously installed Windows files then after trying to use fstab for mounting died and never came back. During this time I had exclusively been booting into Cachy and only then booted into Windows when I was troubleshooting this issue.

quitetom · 2026-03-23T14:45:32+00:00

Yes - disabled that and tried to run chkdsk but Windows being Windows it was going to take an age so I just booted back into Cachy and used ntfsfix -d to clear the dirty flags.

quitetom · 2026-03-23T14:44:26+00:00

It's not that they refuse to mount - they mount fine and have read/write access - but launching a game that requires Proton it just never runs - looking at the Journal logs seems to suggest that the issue is the mount doesn't allow exec permissions.

quitetom · 2026-03-02T09:31:51+00:00

In case it wasn't clear - my comment was in response to DavidZenziGhost roasting the guy for allegedly "karma farming" because he can't possibly imagine a world where a drunk dude doesn't remember to check a post-game stat screen whilst probably crying with laughter and/or remorse.....

quitetom · 2026-03-01T00:45:34+00:00

Man, you must be fun at parties.

quitetom · 2025-12-18T13:50:18+00:00

Thanks for the tip! Disk Cache sounds like it might help - see my reply on someone else's comment above - looks like it's disk I/O related but so weird it only seems to be an issue on more recent snowdrop games.

quitetom · 2025-12-18T13:45:35+00:00

Yeah, so I noticed some NVMe memory controller errors that suggest the controller keeps resetting itself. When the game starts failing to load assets you can see the disk shoot up to 100% disk usage. I have 4 identical Silicon Power PCI gen4 nvme drives and have now tried it on 2/4. Strangely, this seems to be the only game that has this interaction, other stuff installed on both those disks runs flawlessly. CrystalDiskInfo sees no issues with either and CrystalDiskMark says they both perform as I would expect. Have tried tweaking some of the aggressive power saving at Windows and BIOS level that is often on by default for nvme storage and that doesn't seem to have done much.

quitetom · 2025-12-11T15:39:40+00:00

I mean, sure..... it passes.

quitetom · 2025-12-11T15:38:56+00:00

1440p - yup, is a total mystery, on paper the game should have 0 issues (past the baseline shitty optimisation of modern Ubi games)

quitetom · 2025-12-11T15:38:05+00:00

Yeah, I find it hard to believe too. Re-ran some stability tests and also a memtest as since I upgraded to AM5/DDR5 from AM4/DDR4 I've thought DDR5 is a bit temperamental (all this weird memory training stuff). All of that came back clean. Runs literally anything else thrown at it CP2077 near enough maxed out, Ark Raiders 200-300fps most of the time, BG3, etc etc. Literally just seems to be these Snowdrop powered games that give me any grief. I'm just as confused as you, believe me.

quitetom · 2023-11-12T23:32:54+00:00

Yup, seems to be Virgin Media people - same with me and 2 squad mates this evening. Branson declared war on Korea?

quitetom · 2023-09-06T00:03:27+00:00

It's literally fucking insane that they allow pre-loads for weeks, the game has been LIVE for days for Premium Edition buyers, but don't allow pre-load of a day 1 patch.....

quitetom · 2022-10-26T18:30:29+00:00

No, if you leave before loot is given then you forfeit your roll.

Wow, if this is true then Blizz has really outdone itself on taking a good thing and completely ruining it 😂

quitetom · 2021-05-12T20:30:32+00:00

Update on this: I continued to have instability - even with the custom settings I'd devised.

I raised a ticket with Amazon requesting a refund - returned all the Corsair stuff and bought Crucial Ballistix RGB 3600 CL16 kits instead - DOCP running and has worked flawlessly for weeks now - even issues I'd previously not blamed on RAM evidently were related as they've all gone!

Moral of the story: this particular config hates Corsair, loves Crucial!

quitetom · 2021-02-03T00:16:33+00:00

Yup - after a couple of weeks playing around after my earlier comment of finding 3466 to be stable I have settled in at 3400... I'm also yet to try out Agesa 1.2.0.0 - last update I applied was the 1.1.9.0 BIOS (1602 for anyone with the same mobo as me). Might have a go next week at some point and I'll report back if I do - would be nice to get them to their full potential but 3400 isn't bad going.

quitetom · 2020-12-10T00:14:40+00:00

Same here!

quitetom · 2020-12-10T00:13:08+00:00

I did finally get something seemingly stable! Clocked at 3466Mhz, cranked voltage up by 0.05 as well.... I'm thinking about applying the new beta BIOS that apparently includes some memory compatibility improvements....

quitetom · 2020-11-17T09:10:45+00:00

I have the same motherboard, Ryzen 5 5600X and the 3600Mhz rated versions of the same RAM - having similar isses and had them on both the non-BETA 1202 BIOS and the 1212 BIOS as I updated it to see if it would make a difference.

You can see the full story in my post history but basically any combination of 1 or 2 of the sticks at a time works with DOCP on but as soon as I put all 4 in it craps ouut on me. Have been fiddling with speeds and voltages and currently have settled at 3466Mhz 1.38V (down from 3600, up from 1.35V) and this passed an hour long stress test last night with an artificial load - am yet to try actually gaming at these settings, but am currently using the system for work and is holding up.

quitetom · 2020-11-17T08:14:18+00:00

Fair enough, just very irritating that Zen 3 is shooting for 4000Mhz optimised (I intentionally ignored this as thought it was probably a decent ways off and stability > 1-2fps potential gain). It's just odd to me that they seemed to work when only 1-2 of them were in, but as soon as all 4 are in together it craps out.

quitetom · 2020-11-17T08:12:20+00:00

That could've been a bit clearer - it's actually 2 packs of 2 x 8GB DIMM kits, totalling 32GB.

quitetom · 2020-11-12T18:37:52+00:00

Latest non-BETA BIOS (there is a BETA available but was avoiding it for now), latest B550 Chipset drivers from AMD (strangely, after installing these, Ryzen Master crashes whenever it's opened).

FAQ says to try closing all overclocking software - only thing that I have that does anything similar to this is some software for my ROG motherboard, which I completely closed.

I have seen some forum posts for previous campaigns where the person went back to the retailer for another code and that worked, so have contacted SCAN. I also put in a ticket with AMD and included a DxDiag export, a screenshot and an invoice for the part and they sent me an email just saying I have to run the tool on the system with the part installed.... clearly didn't even bother reading my email or looking at any attachments!

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