Birdie30

He never transfered any data like that from the old system to the new system, so none of that would really apply here. The only thing he would have swapped over are video files and documents, but he did all that through external drives etc.

Well, apparently he already tried that. Doesn't change anything.

I have to wait for him to respond, but I have a feeling this will work. Big momento where I wish I would have thought of this, but I also play in borderless by default, the thought never even crossed my mind.

I have a friend who recently purchased a very high end system, he's a YouTuber and his channel has been making him good money this year, so he wanted to splurge. It is a boutique pre built, but its from a reputable German company. Essentially what is happening, is when he launches a game that has a 2D rendered intro screen, or just on the first time launch of a game, the entire PC stutters really badly for a few seconds. He said his GPU utilization drops to about 6% with core clocks at 600mhz when this happens. Obviously, this isn't a big issue. It's just annoying more than anything. If anyone has a fix he'd appreciate it. Apparently this issue persists in games with 2D loading screens as well, but not for anything that has a 3D render. The only time he was able to (sort of) fix this problem is if he had, let's say a video he was watching, put on his primary monitor where the game would be, instead of on a different monitor. For some reason everything decides to run smoothly when he does that. Obviously that's not satisfactory though. We have another mutual friend who's also a Streamer and YouTuber who has a similarly specced PC and is having the same problem. I'm assuming anyone who uses high end Nvidia cards might run into the same issue. I've already gone over a few things with him, made sure he turned off the PC, updated drivers, I asked which slot they installed the card in and tried disconnecting monitors to isolate the problem etc. none of these seemed to make a difference. He had gone to customer support for the boutique builder, but they basically did the same thing I tried. All of my Google search tricks are getting me no good results for this here, which is why I'm asking LTT Forums for help now. Here's everything he's tried already and all the troubleshooting steps he's done: -Turn PC ON/OFF (properly) -Update all drivers -Update Windows -Made sure GPU is installed in top PCI slot -Completely reinstall Windows -Change monitor refresh rates and resolutions to match -Disconnect all but one monitor -Moved games to a different SSD System Specs: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk WIFI RTX 3090 Ti 64GB G.Skill 3600 MHz DDR4, 16GBx4 (quad channel) 1 TB Corsair MP600 PRO 2 TB Kingston SSD 6 TB Seagate Barracuda 1000W beQuiet! Straight Power 11

Okay, in an unfortunate chain of events. Somehow the CPU power connector failed when I turned off the PC. I changed the entire power supply out and to my suprise, stuff started lighting up. It still wouldn't turn on, but I went to try and jump it from the board and not to my suprise, the power switch came loose. All is well now. I'm doing a system restore on this now.

I already removed the CMOS battery, but how would you reset the BIOS without it even turning on? There is zero activity on this board now. It usually has idle lights that are always on, there is nothing.

Little brother was tinkering with his PC trying to get mods installed for a game. He said something went wrong and went and got me, I saw it looked like he got some kind of virus, adware or malware installed because a lot of crap started to install on its own. I immediately shut down the PC to try and do a system recovery reset, but it won't turn on now. At all. No lights on the board, doesn't post, nothing. Dead. I tested the PSU with a jumper and that works fine, after that I removed the GPU, to get to the CMOS, and removed that and still nothing. I took out the storage and it still won't even budge. It looks like a dead board now, but how did this even happen? I don't understand how a virus can do that. I must be missing something here. Specs: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G MSI B350 Tomahawk Corsair Vengance LPX 2933MHZ 2x8GB Crucial P1 1TB M.2 Nvme SSD XFX AMD RX 580 EVGA 750BQ

Update to this topic in case people have issues with this in the future. I replaced the thermal compound on my GPU, this improved temperatures, but the windows re install had originally fixed these problems in the first place for me, so there is no correlation in my case, however I did see articles stating poor thermal compound application could be a cause to issues like this, it just wasn't mine. The compound the GPU came with was not good quality (which is normal), but it's probably because it is designed for longevity, not performance. Regardless the stock application looked fine on mine, people who reported bad application had thermal compound on the PCB of their GPU. Not related but replacing the compound also got rid of some coil wine when my fans were at full speed, probably from better reassembly. I started having this problem again after attempting to Overclock my GPU. I had done this before, but was resetting my GPU overclock when I started having problems, these problems also were not immediate, but didn't take long to occur the second time (20 minutesish). I did not think this was the problem before because I had reset my GPU to it's normal settings both times. From what I have read online about people having similar issues, the solution is to reset the GPU to factory settings in AMD Wattman and Game Settings (Global, or specific games if you had tweaked with them), re install drivers, and restart your computer. This solution worked for me the second time around (I did not attempt this in that order before) and I haven't had issues since. For some reason attempting any overclock will cause your GPU to become unstable in certain situations (bad framedrops/framerates even when everything appears to be running fine). In synthetic benchmarks and certain titles for me everything ran great, even in GPU heavy games like GTA V and Apex Legends, but other titles would not be playable like the ones I mentioned. I even had my GPU crash when playing Overwatch once despite having a stable overclock in MSI Kombostor for 30 minutes straight earlier that day, I assumed this just meant the overclock was unstable, but I'm seeing now this is an issue with AMD on their current drivers. This happens using 3rd party software or AMD Wattman regardless, but I would recommend staying away from 3rd party software. AMD knows about this problem now, and hopefully will fix it in a future driver update, but as far as I can tell only myself and a few others have had this problem, and it's isolated only to people who are overclocking which makes the sample size for fixing this smaller. For now, that is how you fix this. Hopefully I saved someone a lot of headaches. EDIT: Forgot my test methodology (this is only a theory after all).

So, after trying everything I can think of, including the few things I didn't try you guys brought up, I ultimately did a clean re install of Windows and long behold it's working now. I will be slowly adding software and making changes bit by bit over the next couple of weeks to see if I can isolate what the issue was and post it here if I find it. This one is a mystery to me though.

Unfortunately the power is out right now, but I will reseat everything when it comes back on and re download some CPU monitoring tools to see if there is something wrong there as well. Anyone who knows how to properly disable AMDs automatic optimization stuff would be helpful too, their software is really weird to navigate and I'm not sure if anything I do is actually affecting anything.

I have tried all of the above. Will update post to reflect that.

The temperatures are fine and the GPU and CPU usage are both maxing out.

Yes on both, I flashed the motherboard properly as well with a USB and EZ flash.

Yes, I have two 1080p monitors, the primary one is a 144hz monitor using Display Port as the output, and they are both plugged into the graphics card, not the motherboard.

I recently put together this system with a Ryzen 3 2200G and an RX 580 8GB, this is not the first computer I've built, but I can not figure out why in certain titles I am getting extremely bad frame skips/drops in titles this system should easily be able to run. What exactly is happening: The games I have run into this problem are Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch and Tom Clancy's: The Division 2. In CS:GO my framerate is hovering around 80FPS and dips only a little bit to 60, but I feel like this framerate is really low for a game that is not very demanding like Counter Strike. In Division 2, I get frame skips down to 20-25 down from 50-60, which again is rather low for an RX 580. Overwatch is the most severe where I am usually starting anywhere from 120-160FPS and it tanks to 30-60,causing extremely bad frame skips whenever someone uses an ability or gets close to my character. My previous system I was using daily was a laptop with an i7 8700HQ and a GTX 1050Ti, maybe more powerful in the CPU department, but much less powerful graphics wise, and all other titles I would play on this system run better on my new computer, but the ones that I mentioned do not at all. Another good example is Apex Legends which uses the same engine as CS:GO (I think) runs at even higher FPS than CS:GO which is absurd in my opinion. What I have already tried/attempted: All drivers are up to date, I have flashed the BIOS twice, no abnormal thermals or clock speeds are happening (GPU is always 60C or lower and CPU is around the same, 65C max with the stock cooler). My ram is 16GB of Corsair Vengeance at 2400MHZ which I overclocked to 3000MHZ and still get the same results either way. All of these titles are using the RX 580 as the graphics driver (I am new to AMD's software and have had trouble navigating it to make changes though, if any at all). I have turned on and off AMD "Chill FPS" multiple times, uninstalled and installed Re Live to see if that was an issue and I have attempted to go back to a previous driver version, but I can't find where to get any previous drivers from and since I never had previous drivers installed, they aren't already on my system to use. I read somewhere MSI Afterburner can cause conflicts with AMD's GPU settings, which I did have installed, but even uninstalling that along with any other, benchamarking, monitoring or overclocking tools haven't changed anything. I am at a loss on what to do at this point. Full system specs: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 3.8GHZ Quad Core AMD XFX RX 580 8GB ASUS B350 Prime Plus Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2400MHZ OC to 3000MHZ Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD EVGA 750BQ PSU EDIT: Changing graphics settings in game doesn't affect FPS in virtually every single title, also odd, and an indicator of a CPU bottleneck, but I have seen other benchmarks with the same system specs and they do not have this problem. EDIT 2: I am running in high performance mode, no capture software running from either Windows, AMD or other 3rd party software. I have tried clean driver installs on everything. EDIT 3: Reseating hardware didn't change anything, only fix was to fresh install Windows 10. Will post cause of issue here if I find what was causing it in the future. FIX: I replaced the thermal compound on my GPU, this improved temperatures, but the windows re install had originally fixed these problems in the first place for me, so there is no correlation in my case, however I did see articles stating poor thermal compound application could be a cause to issues like this, it just wasn't mine. The compound the GPU came with was not good quality (which is normal), but it's probably because it is designed for longevity, not performance. Regardless the stock application looked fine on mine, people who reported bad application had thermal compound on the PCB of their GPU. Not related but replacing the compound also got rid of some coil wine when my fans were at full speed, probably from better reassembly. I started having this problem again after attempting to Overclock my GPU. I had done this before, but was resetting my GPU overclock when I started having problems, these problems also were not immediate, but didn't take long to occur the second time (20 minutesish). I did not think this was the problem before because I had reset my GPU to it's normal settings both times. From what I have read online about people having similar issues, the solution is to reset the GPU to factory settings in AMD Wattman and Game Settings (Global, or specific games if you had tweaked with them), re install drivers, and restart your computer. This solution worked for me the second time around (I did not attempt this in that order before) and I haven't had issues since. For some reason attempting any overclock will cause your GPU to become unstable in certain situations (bad framedrops/framerates even when everything appears to be running fine). In synthetic benchmarks and certain titles for me everything ran great, even in GPU heavy games like GTA V and Apex Legends, but other titles would not be playable like the ones I mentioned. I even had my GPU crash when playing Overwatch once despite having a stable overclock in MSI Kombostor for 30 minutes straight earlier that day, I assumed this just meant the overclock was unstable, but I'm seeing now this is an issue with AMD on their current drivers. This happens using 3rd party software or AMD Wattman regardless, but I would recommend staying away from 3rd party software. AMD knows about this problem now, and hopefully will fix it in a future driver update, but as far as I can tell only myself and a few others have had this problem, and it's isolated only to people who are overclocking which makes the sample size for fixing this smaller. For now, that is how you fix this. Hopefully I saved someone a lot of headaches.