stevemoorevale

Hi. Im still having issues where gta5 will suddenly just stutter and quit to desktop with no warning or error and no apparent problems shown in hwinfo graphs for different important gaming parameters. One idea I had was perhaps it may be ssd related. the crashes seem to happen when I’m loading lots of textures. So if I’m just waking around I can play for hours no problem but if I’m driving through the city at fast speeds or flying a helicopter then that’s when I start to get these random quitting issues. I have seen online that when loading lots of textures you are using mostly random read on the ssd and my random read speed is 205mb/s for the drive the game files are on. (Over 500 sequential). I don’t know what it means but the bottom one on crystal disk mark which is random 4K queues 1 threads 1 is only at 39mb/s. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance.

thanks for the tips. I hadn’t actually cleaned the internals of the system since I built it in 2018. I’ve cleared out all the filters, blown out the system fans and the fans on the gpu, remove the front door which I didn’t like anyway and alao removed the side panel. Amazingly I’ve lost 20° from all that. In game my fps is still good but temps are now in the 60s rather than the high 80s. Thanks for the help and perhaps from now on I’ll learn to clean the system more often too.

Thanks. I’ll take the side panel off and see if I can take the door off too. See if I can change the case fans curves too

Thanks. It’s an nvidia founders edition card direct from them. case wise I’m using a fractal design r6. Thinking I could take the front door off to aid those front fans.

I have an RTX 2060 6gb. I’ve boosted the power limit to 113% and the clock speed is around 1800mhz using its boost system. Thermals are around 80-90 degrees during gta5 gameplay with a custom fan curve. During gaming I do see some thermal throttling where I see the temp raise to its 84° limit and then the clock reduces. But the reduced clock is still way above both the advertised base clock and advertised boost clock so can I ignore this and continue gaming? It’s not like it’s under performing at all as I’m still getting higher fps in game which is what I was aiming for.

I have been experiencing random crashes within gta5 online where the image will suddenly start to stutter and lock up and then it just quits to desktop. No error messages or anything like that. I set up some monitoring graphs on my second monitor to see what shows when the crash occurs again but I didn’t see any obvious spikes anywhere. In gpu-z I did see perfcap reason go to PWR a few times. Temps were around 80 degrees. I have used msi afterburner to look at figures and noticed my clock speed was way above the boost clock listed for my card by nvidia but I’ve since learnt that is normal and does so if the system has good temps and voltage to allow it to go further. Having said that I decided to reduce the clock speed down from 1800mhz approx to what nvidia advertise as boost clock which is 1650mhz. This also bought down temps plus I raised the fan speed to help with cooling too. However I feel like reducing clock speed will lower my frame rate which is already really low at around 30fps. I hope to improve this rate with a few tips I found online. With regards to the PWR on the perfcap I was wondering whether I should increase my power limit. It usually shows 103% in the stats within gpu-z during gameplay so I’m thinking I should raise the power limit inside afterburner and adjust the fan speed to allow for better cooling for the increased heat. So really my question is should I raise my power limit to max and cooling to suit and leave the clock speed lowered or should I let it run at the 1800mhz it chose originally to allow for a better frame rate. Or should I leave power limit alone. These crashes are really annoying and especially so if I’m in the middle of a mission. RTX 2060 6gb FE ASU’s rog x470f gaming motherboard. Ryzen 7 2700x running around the 4ghz mark during gameplay 32gig of ddr4 ram cl16 1080p monitor 60hz dvi connection Game files on ssd Game settings mainly on high and very high but nothing on ultra. sorry for the long and perhaps confusing question. I’m on my work lunch break and rushing the typing.

Hi. I am having an issue with windows storage spaces or at least the way windows is displaying information. i have two 4tb hard drives in a pool which are mirrored. If I go into the storage spaces program it shows that my drives are full. It shows the total pool capacity as 7.26tb which I know is my two 4tb drives. Then underneath it shows each drive individually and here too it shows them both as full. However, if I go into This PC and look at the properties of the storage space there it shows it as having 3.63tb free of 7.26 which is clearly half of 7.26. So is windows treating the mirrored drive as a usable one instead of ignoring it as it should because it’s a redundant drive in a mirrored setup? If this is the car, how do I get around this issue? I don’t want to have to keep track of how full my drives are by going into storage spaces. I want it to show the correct figures in This PC.

Hi. I have a question regarding Microsoft Windows Storage Spaces. If my mirrored array gets full and I want to add bigger drives but I don’t have any more connections for drives on my board, how do I go about it? Do I pull out one of the drives and put a new one in and then have it rebuild to the new disk. Or do I click the prepare for removal option and give it the new disk to use? But then if that’s the case how can I add the new disk to the pool with all that data on it as I thought windows formats the drive when you add it to a pool. Thanks.

Thank you. I have noticed that during a cinebench run the voltage does drop right down to 1.35v. I wouldn't know where to start when it comes to undervolting.

Jurrunio, which of these SV12 reading do i need to pay attention to?

Thank you both for your replies. It;s good to know things are running as expected.

Thank you for your reply. I've just run two Cinebence R20 all core runs (i already had r20 installed). Max temp first run 83 degrees and 2nd run 84 degrees. All cores at 100% and all cores stayed around the 3,966mhz according to HWinfo. So yes it does seem as though everything is working as expected. Perhaps in the future it would be worthwhile to upgrade my cpu cooler.

Hi There, I have a Ryzen 2700X and i have noticed in HWinfo that a lot of my cores are dropping well below base clock of 3.7ghz. I am just using the supplied Wraith Prism cooler. I have enabled PBO in the bios so it is auto boosting to well over 4ghz regularly but also dropping way below base. My voltages seem very high too but i asked about that on this forum a while ago and was reassured that being over 1.4v is normal for this cpu. Temperature wise i have had it just above 70 degrees at load (photo processing in Adobe Lightroom) but it drops to the high 30s at idle. I was wondering whether the relatively high temp of around 70 degrees was causing the system to thermal throttle and dial back the clock. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Ooooh. This sounds interesting. That would be cool if that’s right. Although I thought you need five drives for parity? I have about six spare drives and a spare data port so I could add one for parity if needed. I do a lot of photography and video work and just have a small setup to keep my data safe. It just seemed stupid having two pools made of two drives each so I thought merging into one made up of 4 drives would make more sense.

I have two storage pools but want to cut that down to one by adding the disks from the second pool to the first. I’m assuming it will format the drives when I add them. I just wondered whether, if a 2tb drive died in the future, it would only rebuild that drive from the other 2tb drive and not affect the 4tb drives at all. I think you have answered my question above ‘it just rebuilds the data from where you need it. It’s clever enough to know what’s lost and what needs to be rebuilt.