- Oct 16, 2013
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tl;dr: bought the GPU to play Squad but it crashes after playing for a while. No clue as to why.
For months I have played Squad with a Ryzen 3 2200g, with the Vega 8 onboard graphics, and 16gb of dual channel, 3Ghz RAM, 500W PSU, A320 mobo. Could get 30fps on low to medium and was happy with it, but wanted an upgrade.
Last week I got a RX 580 and now I'm having trouble. Either I'm having frequent UE4 crashes (crash to desktop with a message like his one) after about 30 min. playing or so, or bit by bit I start to get stutters and packet loss and then eventually get booted from server. Any server. Internet is fine, other games are fine. Very strange but pretty consistent symptoms.
Stock GPU behaviour was interesting; the clock went down to 1.290ish fairly often (from 1.350 stock) and fans were a bit on the slow side even at ~75C. First thing I did using Radeon Software, as per many reviews, was to increase Power Limit (%) to max (30 in my case) and all was good. Until the crashes.
At first I thought it could be temperature related. So I undervolted it, also per many online reviews and guides. No joy, it still crashes - tried everything from 1070 to stock mv. So then I went on to lower the graphics settings and even lock fps to lower the load on the GPU. Still no joy.
I noticed the CPU hit 80ºC at the time it crashed. Ok, maybe it was that? Further lowered settings and locked fps at 42 (could get up to 60, stable 55, when unlocked). CPU temp stayed ~60 and didn't go above 65, the GPU was in the same range, but still the game crashed after a while. I also notice that, with the packet loss, I start to get some frames skipped. Looks like a stutter, but it's clearly a frame or two that don't get displayed from time to time. No fps hit tho, FPS Is stable, GPU use is stable. Latest drivers, the board came with 2020 BIOS.
Today I lowered the Power Limit (%) to minimum (-30). And guess what, I played for more than 2 hours without any issues. GPU clock kept going down almost all the time to low 1200s Ghz, but it didn't really affect performance since I had locked fps at 44.
And now what. It worked but I don't want to leave it like this if it's a faulty card or similar, since it's new. And I really don't know what to think/try any more. Could this be PSU related? I wonder why did lowering Power Limit give this result, but undervolting didn't? Thanks for any insights.
For months I have played Squad with a Ryzen 3 2200g, with the Vega 8 onboard graphics, and 16gb of dual channel, 3Ghz RAM, 500W PSU, A320 mobo. Could get 30fps on low to medium and was happy with it, but wanted an upgrade.
Last week I got a RX 580 and now I'm having trouble. Either I'm having frequent UE4 crashes (crash to desktop with a message like his one) after about 30 min. playing or so, or bit by bit I start to get stutters and packet loss and then eventually get booted from server. Any server. Internet is fine, other games are fine. Very strange but pretty consistent symptoms.
Stock GPU behaviour was interesting; the clock went down to 1.290ish fairly often (from 1.350 stock) and fans were a bit on the slow side even at ~75C. First thing I did using Radeon Software, as per many reviews, was to increase Power Limit (%) to max (30 in my case) and all was good. Until the crashes.
At first I thought it could be temperature related. So I undervolted it, also per many online reviews and guides. No joy, it still crashes - tried everything from 1070 to stock mv. So then I went on to lower the graphics settings and even lock fps to lower the load on the GPU. Still no joy.
I noticed the CPU hit 80ºC at the time it crashed. Ok, maybe it was that? Further lowered settings and locked fps at 42 (could get up to 60, stable 55, when unlocked). CPU temp stayed ~60 and didn't go above 65, the GPU was in the same range, but still the game crashed after a while. I also notice that, with the packet loss, I start to get some frames skipped. Looks like a stutter, but it's clearly a frame or two that don't get displayed from time to time. No fps hit tho, FPS Is stable, GPU use is stable. Latest drivers, the board came with 2020 BIOS.
Today I lowered the Power Limit (%) to minimum (-30). And guess what, I played for more than 2 hours without any issues. GPU clock kept going down almost all the time to low 1200s Ghz, but it didn't really affect performance since I had locked fps at 44.
And now what. It worked but I don't want to leave it like this if it's a faulty card or similar, since it's new. And I really don't know what to think/try any more. Could this be PSU related? I wonder why did lowering Power Limit give this result, but undervolting didn't? Thanks for any insights.
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