- Sep 27, 2015
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To make an extremely long story as short as possible I recently brought escape from tarkov, it wouldnt boot, infact many games for me reasontlyish wouldnt boot, I always put this down to games being S
t and I did many work arounds and fixed alot of them by tinkering.
The only thing is with tarkov, it was being extra bi*chy and didnt want to play with anything I did, this lead me to do some actual computer hardware diagnostics. I got my brothers gpu into my rig and it still didnt work, I got his ram in, didnt work, I got my NVME
into his motherboard and sure enough it worked on his PC with my NVME so not a dodgy download or corrupt files or whatever. My gpu worked in his PC, Now the thing is he is intel I am AMD so we cant do any motherboard / CPU diagnostics,
and funnily enough that leaves just those two to be the possible culprits in why that game and many others have been so tricky to work for me.
About a half a year ago I was taking off my heatsink for my ryzen 2600x and it wouldnt come off so instead of twisting like an idiot slowly I yanked and boom the cpu popped out glued to the heat sink I hadnt pulled the lever up to release the CPU but it didnt hit anything on the way out and it looked good, when I went to put it back into a new motherboard it wouldnt go in, I inspect the pins, non look missing or bent but they are all off by just the tiny smallest hair amount that over the length of the socket it doesnt quite fit, so I pushed it down and it went in, pulled it back out to check and the pins looked completely in tact.
My real question is, would it somehow be possible that I have been running all this time on a CPU that doesnt work propperly but still runs AAA titles mostly fine just the odd game doesnt like it?? Or is it more likely (which I suspect as its been a B*tch ever since I got it, shoulda stayed on my MSI) that my asrock B450M f4 pro motherboard that hasnt had bios updates for my chip in aaaages is the real culprit, youd never believe but ive missed warranty by one week, serves my lazy ass right for not checking sooner and batter yet the ryzen 2600x is £130 when I brought it and is now an average of £40 more for the same chip, brilliant...
t and I did many work arounds and fixed alot of them by tinkering.The only thing is with tarkov, it was being extra bi*chy and didnt want to play with anything I did, this lead me to do some actual computer hardware diagnostics. I got my brothers gpu into my rig and it still didnt work, I got his ram in, didnt work, I got my NVME
into his motherboard and sure enough it worked on his PC with my NVME so not a dodgy download or corrupt files or whatever. My gpu worked in his PC, Now the thing is he is intel I am AMD so we cant do any motherboard / CPU diagnostics,
and funnily enough that leaves just those two to be the possible culprits in why that game and many others have been so tricky to work for me.
About a half a year ago I was taking off my heatsink for my ryzen 2600x and it wouldnt come off so instead of twisting like an idiot slowly I yanked and boom the cpu popped out glued to the heat sink I hadnt pulled the lever up to release the CPU but it didnt hit anything on the way out and it looked good, when I went to put it back into a new motherboard it wouldnt go in, I inspect the pins, non look missing or bent but they are all off by just the tiny smallest hair amount that over the length of the socket it doesnt quite fit, so I pushed it down and it went in, pulled it back out to check and the pins looked completely in tact.
My real question is, would it somehow be possible that I have been running all this time on a CPU that doesnt work propperly but still runs AAA titles mostly fine just the odd game doesnt like it?? Or is it more likely (which I suspect as its been a B*tch ever since I got it, shoulda stayed on my MSI) that my asrock B450M f4 pro motherboard that hasnt had bios updates for my chip in aaaages is the real culprit, youd never believe but ive missed warranty by one week, serves my lazy ass right for not checking sooner and batter yet the ryzen 2600x is £130 when I brought it and is now an average of £40 more for the same chip, brilliant...
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