- May 26, 2013
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this week i went through a motherboard, SSD and CPU upgrade, and it coincided with windows 10 release.
i went from: Asrock extreme3 990fx + FX 8320
to: EVGA Z97 FTW + Intel 4790k + Samsung 850 EVO 250gb
my first problems started in Ark Survival, i'd be fine on the FPS, then out of nowhere after 5-10 minutes i'd get like, 0-1 FPS, with freezes of a few seconds at a time until the computer freezed for good, and the only way back was a forced reset.
my second problem was in BF4, where i wouldnt get a total freeze like in ark, but the game constantly crashes to desktop, after 10-15 minutes of play. I cant make out the error screen that shows up, but it's something to do with video, not sure if it's video memory or video driver (i can only see it on my second monitor, and only in the windows preview thing when you mouse over it, as soon as i close BF4, the error goes away too)
i suspected windows 10, so i booted back into windows 8 on my second SSD (a small 60gb one), but i get the same crash in ark, this time followed by a blue screen that read Dpc_watchdog_violation, i did google it, but it seems vague, most things i read just said my SSD's firmware could be out of date, but its not, at least not the samsung one, and i don't see how windows 10 would crash to that when its booting from the samsung 250gb brand new SSD.
a couple hours later i think i've narrowed the problem down.
somehow my games are drawing more VRAM then they actually have, i did a bit of vram burning, then went back to BF4,
i know that the 690 only has 2 gigs of VRAM on each core, first i tried the 2gb burn on kombustor, and got a regular 2gb on afterburner, then i tried a 3gb burn, and still got the regular 2gb on afterburner (shown in the screenshot as the first 2 instant bumps in vram)
however, when i went on battlefield 4, i got a constant increase in vram, and as soon as it past the 2gb mark, FPS started to drop, and studders started popping up all over the place. (shown in the steady incease in VRAM, and a steady decrease of FPS)
any ideas?
i went from: Asrock extreme3 990fx + FX 8320
to: EVGA Z97 FTW + Intel 4790k + Samsung 850 EVO 250gb
my first problems started in Ark Survival, i'd be fine on the FPS, then out of nowhere after 5-10 minutes i'd get like, 0-1 FPS, with freezes of a few seconds at a time until the computer freezed for good, and the only way back was a forced reset.
my second problem was in BF4, where i wouldnt get a total freeze like in ark, but the game constantly crashes to desktop, after 10-15 minutes of play. I cant make out the error screen that shows up, but it's something to do with video, not sure if it's video memory or video driver (i can only see it on my second monitor, and only in the windows preview thing when you mouse over it, as soon as i close BF4, the error goes away too)
i suspected windows 10, so i booted back into windows 8 on my second SSD (a small 60gb one), but i get the same crash in ark, this time followed by a blue screen that read Dpc_watchdog_violation, i did google it, but it seems vague, most things i read just said my SSD's firmware could be out of date, but its not, at least not the samsung one, and i don't see how windows 10 would crash to that when its booting from the samsung 250gb brand new SSD.
a couple hours later i think i've narrowed the problem down.
somehow my games are drawing more VRAM then they actually have, i did a bit of vram burning, then went back to BF4,
i know that the 690 only has 2 gigs of VRAM on each core, first i tried the 2gb burn on kombustor, and got a regular 2gb on afterburner, then i tried a 3gb burn, and still got the regular 2gb on afterburner (shown in the screenshot as the first 2 instant bumps in vram)
however, when i went on battlefield 4, i got a constant increase in vram, and as soon as it past the 2gb mark, FPS started to drop, and studders started popping up all over the place. (shown in the steady incease in VRAM, and a steady decrease of FPS)
any ideas?
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