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    Post  Walther von Oldenburg Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:24 pm

    Does anyone know how to fix stuttering in games on PC? UBOAT is unplayable because of it, every 2-3 s there is a "freeze" for about 0.5 s. It also happens in FC4 and AC: Oddysey but only in cutscenes.

    I have latest AMD dricers, I tried turning off game mode in Win 10 but it did not work.
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    Post  kvs Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:56 pm

    Walther von Oldenburg wrote:Does anyone know how to fix stuttering in games on PC? UBOAT is unplayable because of it, every 2-3 s there is a "freeze" for about 0.5 s. It also happens in FC4 and AC: Oddysey but only in cutscenes.

    I have latest AMD dricers, I tried turning off game mode in Win 10 but it did not work.

    You are experiencing the worst type of issue. Your newest drivers may be the source of the problem. The latest drivers do not
    ensure best performance. This is partly related to the interaction of the drivers with the OS. Windows updates have and will continue
    to break software. Your options are:

    1) Fresh install of the OS and earlier version of the drivers.

    2) Install earlier version of the drivers with a proper full uninstall of the version you have now. You need a custom utility to
    do this since windows uninstall will leave files behind.

    The above assumes that you are not experiencing video card hardware failure. The stuttering seems to be a texture upload problem where
    it takes too long to periodically transfer textures from disk into video RAM. I am also assuming you had no stuttering issues before
    and your video card is new enough to have sufficient and fast (GDDR5 or later) video RAM to handle these games.

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    Post  Walther von Oldenburg Thu Jun 13, 2019 9:07 pm

    I have an RX 480 from on a 2016 high-end PC. The stuttering started around April-May 2018 after either Windows or drivers update. I had zero stuttering in Far Cry 4 before that time and ultra smoot framerate on almost highest settings.
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    Post  kvs Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:44 pm

    Walther von Oldenburg wrote:I have an RX 480 from on a 2016 high-end PC. The stuttering started around April-May 2018 after either Windows or drivers update. I had zero stuttering in Far Cry 4 before that time and ultra smoot framerate on almost highest settings.

    Sounds like an OS or driver update specific issue. That narrows it down. Try rolling back the video drivers. Or wait until there is a driver update that may fix
    a problem introduced by the OS update. Check the AMD driver board if people are having similar issues. If they are, then you will likely get a driver fix in
    the near future. If not, then you are going to have to play around with older drivers that may be immune to the OS update issue.

    Bloody annoying all of this. M$haft and the various companies that depend on it to reach the mass market consumer treat the consumer like
    sh*t.

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    Post  miketheterrible Fri Jun 14, 2019 1:53 am

    Could be multitude of things.

    What temps is your RX 480 running at? As well, when was last time you updated drivers?

    If you need to update drivers, remember to use DDU

    https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

    Use monitoring software such as:
    https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner

    Or

    https://www.nzxt.com/camapp

    To grab temps.

    Also, what is your power supply?

    Last but not least on top of my head, is your motherboard running at pci e 16x 3.0? Use gpuZ to check.

    https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/
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    Post  Walther von Oldenburg Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:42 pm

    Some time ago my PC started freezing for no reason.


    IT's always the same - everything runs ok and until 30-40 min there is a freeze. First the curser works but I can't click anything, then after approx. 10s even the cursor freezes.

    I have the latest drivers and Win 10. What the f... is going on?
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    Post  kvs Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:10 pm

    Walther von Oldenburg wrote:Some time ago my PC started freezing for no reason.


    IT's always the same - everything runs ok and until 30-40 min there is a freeze. First the curser works but I can't click anything, then after approx. 10s even the cursor freezes.

    I have the latest drivers and Win 10. What the f... is going on?

    Either you have RAM corruption, malware (not necessarily functional), or a corrupted windows install. If you have more than
    8 gigabytes of RAM you should be OK. It is possible your video card is old and is having issues although this is not likely.

    There are too many variables for any simple diagnosis. You have to go by trial and error and check various components.
    Try a fresh Windows 10 install on an empty SSD and if you do not have the problem then it is something to do with your
    current software as opposed to hardware.

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    Post  PapaDragon Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:25 pm


    If your hard drive data isn't getting corrupted then it could be motherboard

    Make backup copy of important stuff before you do anything else

    Have you checked your cooler? I had crapload of problems back in a day due to shoddy cooler and CPU overheating, it was manifesting in a similar way

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    Post  Regular Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:15 pm

    Get monitoring software. Observe the spikes. Fix the issue
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    Post  GarryB Thu Jul 16, 2020 5:33 am

    Probably not overheating... normally it would just shut down if it was overheating rather than freezing.

    Go to an anti virus website that you trust and see if they have any diagnostic tools you can use to remotely scan your computer.

    Back up all your important data first.

    I am a computer nerd so I have lots of hard drives from old computers, but something that might be useful is to make a bootable USB stick... a 16GB one is big enough for any OS so you can boot up on that and don't access your C drive and see if it happens again.

    It would identify if it is hardware or software related...

    If it does not freeze then I would reinstall your operating system over the existing one... it shouldn't damage anything but would normally fix corrupted files.

    Freezes and lockups were much more common on older machines, but the newer OS generally handle permissions and access... normally it is two or more processes trying to access the same things so they are waiting for the other process to finish so they can use that resource but the other resource is doing the same so there is a conflict.

    Check out your hardware manager to make sure there are no hardware conflicts... try updating drivers for your various bits.

    When was the first time it happened... was it just after an OS update? or a hardware driver update?

    Check the websites for the OS and your major hardware to see if other users are having similar problems... you might need to roll back and update.
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    Post  George1 Thu Jul 16, 2020 8:48 am

    Walther von Oldenburg wrote:Some time ago my PC started freezing for no reason.


    IT's always the same - everything runs ok and until 30-40 min there is a freeze. First the curser works but I can't click anything, then after approx. 10s even the cursor freezes.

    I have the latest drivers and Win 10. What the f... is going on?

    did u try to run in safe mode?
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    Post  kvs Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:38 am

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-10-bug-corrupts-your-hard-drive-on-seeing-this-files-icon/

    An unpatched zero-day in Microsoft Windows 10 allows attackers to corrupt an NTFS-formatted hard drive with a one-line command.

    In multiple tests by BleepingComputer, this one-liner can be delivered hidden inside a Windows shortcut file, a ZIP archive, batch files, or various other vectors to trigger hard drive errors that corrupt the filesystem index instantly.

    MicroCrap strikes again. A trivial issue of

    cd <text string>

    can corrupt your NTFS filesystem.

    This is some epic inanity. The change directory command should never be able to change disk contents. Only MicroCrap would
    turn it into a write to disk command.

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    Post  kvs Fri May 24, 2024 2:16 pm



    How to avoid the forced MS account in Win 11.

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    Post  kvs Mon Jun 03, 2024 12:19 pm



    The Windows 11 Recall spyware:

    1) Records everything including your passwords and credit card information

    2) Does not encrypt this information unless you enable bitlocker for your whole system which is rather useless anyway since
    it only applies to physical theft and any online malware can still harvest all your information.

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    Post  kvs Fri Jun 07, 2024 1:28 am



    Adobe pulling the same Orwellian shit as MicroCrap. Welcome to the Brave New World of western "freedom".

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    Post  kvs Mon Jul 08, 2024 11:56 am



    Beware of Chinese fakes.

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    Post  kvs Thu Jul 11, 2024 7:20 pm



    Microsoft, building the Orwellian dystopia.

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    Post  kvs Tue Jul 30, 2024 6:02 pm



    "Trusted computing platform" as in Big Brother trusted platform.

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    Post  kvs Tue Aug 06, 2024 3:35 am



    Intel must be decomposing from DEI rot like Boeing.

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    Post  Mir Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:50 pm

    kvs wrote:

    "Trusted computing platform" as in Big Brother trusted platform.


    I am one of the unfortunate Windows 11 "owners". However I'm not doing all that much on it as I have another working PC.
    First thing I've noticed on W11 when I stared up the laptop for the very first time is the "total control" that's happening here.
    The "fortunate thing"- so far - is that Microsoft requires you to access their online shop if you want to install any other software on the PC.
    "Fortunate" in the sense that you need to be on the internet to do so.
    I have however managed to get rid of most of the Microsoft bloatware on the laptop by simply working offline - but that's easy to do.
    However, I've successfully installed 3rd party (unsigned non-Microsoft) software (mostly utility type software) that works just fine alongside W11, by simply installing it offline.
    In future all that might change - but for now it's workable without any issues.

    Some good news is that Google's now branded an illegal monopoly - it's a good start.

    https://www.rt.com/news/602226-google-illegal-monopoly-court/

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    Post  kvs Tue Aug 06, 2024 6:16 pm

    I am going to use Windows 10 for as long as possible. The only long term issue is security but when that becomes a problem for me I will likely
    transition to Linux (which I have used since the 1990s) with W10 in a virtual machine. Windows is my leisure environment and any value it has
    for me is because of gaming.

    I am forced to use a Windows 11 machine at work, but I don't care.

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    Post  higurashihougi Wed Aug 07, 2024 1:19 pm

    kvs wrote:I am going to use Windows 10 for as long as possible.   The only long term issue is security but when that becomes a problem for me I will likely
    transition to Linux (which I have used since the 1990s) with W10 in a virtual machine.   Windows is my leisure environment and any value it has
    for me is because of gaming.  

    I am forced to use a Windows 11 machine at work, but I don't care.  


    Thanks goodness, finally another Linux user. What distro you use ?

    Using Linux allow me to hate MS Windows, as one of the biggest problem for amateur Linux user like me is compatibility. Many common software, such as Zalo Messenger, or Mendeley Cite, or One Drive, are Win-tailored and compatibility issues arose when I work in Linux. I have to use these software for the sake of team communication and synchronization of works as all the team use them, but these software somehow sucks on Linux OS.

    I have to use Linux as my sole OS as some of my task are memory and CPU demanding, have to ultilize all the RAM and CPU for it.

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    Post  kvs Thu Aug 08, 2024 4:42 pm

    I started out on Slackware, then used Fedora and more recently Ubuntu. I have CentOS (Red Hat AS clone which is defunct) installed on a home work machine.
    But I am out of date on the distro scene. I did not like how Gnome introduced bloated GUI to Linux. Remember when not having the internet set up first was
    an issue for this crap? I do.

    I "feel your pain" on the inter-operability with Windows-centric applications. The production machines I work on are HPC systems running Linux. But my interface machine is
    W11 box so all the rubbish such as MS Teams, etc., function. If you have to use these apps on a Linux box, then install Winblows via VirtualBox and bridge the ethernet.
    Linux has always had a compatibility issue which just reflects the nature of society. Like all the compradors around the planet scrambling to suck off Uncle Swineshit, we
    have all the developers focusing on the "premier" OS.

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    Post  sepheronx Thu Aug 08, 2024 5:06 pm

    Pop OS with its cosmic is looking really good. I found arch Linux to be very stable and it was easy to use for anyone with some basic Linux knowledge. The sub distros like manjaro, mint, Nobara, etc were more of a waste of time since they weren't nearly as stable and what can be done on them can be done on arch with a few more bit of time of extra work.

    Ubuntu is still the go to for most companies these days though. So experience on Ubuntu can actually be a benefit in the IT field. Walmart newest set up for registers runs in Ubuntu.

    I'm gonna give Pop OS with Cosmic a try after it releases. The beta is apparently available or will be in day or two.

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