Hello
It seems, to me that ever since I upgraded to a newer GPU, that pretty much all games (tho I don't play a lot like I used to) started freezing after just about 10-15 minutes.
One of the games is Fortnite, the other is a flight sim, two completely different kind of games.
Under the hood it may be a BSOD, because a bugcheck event gets created and an automatic memory dump of 2-3 GB gets written as "MEMORY.DMP" from which I've analyzed:
WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
Module Name: AuthenticAMD.sys
Further analysis says: Fatal BUS Error - BUSL1_SRC_IRD_I_NOTIMEOUT_ERR (Proc 10 Bank 1)
I might post more detailed screenshots later, right now I'm not typing from the problematic machine.
This is what hints it could be a CPU problem, because I've actually upgraded to a new CPU a few months before the GPU, but I remember playing the same games with the newer CPU and the older GPU ...
Maybe a BIOS update coinciding the upgrade in the week around the upgrade of the GPU could be the blame, these motherboards and CPUs was known for USB connectivity issues plaguing a lot of users.
It's an AMD AM4 system, ASUS ROG Strix X570-E motherboard with AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and initially an older AMD Radeon GPU, one that I upgraded with Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 6700XT, around that time I started experiencing freezes in games, even though it would all work otherwise. The PSU is a higher tier platinum Corsair HX 750W.
I'm a senior advanced PC user despite this being the first post, I've lurked around here for quite a long time
So troubleshooting isn't a first for me, infact it's one of my cup of tea's back when I had more free time, I would dig deep into all kinds of issues, so there's a whole bunch of basics and stuff I've already tried. This issue's just a bit more mysterious and it's affecting my primary work setup, so I rather post it up for reference and get it documented for clarity and recall.
I haven't tried everything yet though, so far I've tried on a new installation of Win10, other games, disabled AMD DOCP and did some benchmarks in Cinebench. I did two 3 hour tests with Prime95, one for max CPU stress and one for RAM stress. I've yet to do OCCT, and rendering programs.
Development and workstation type programs without fully rendering do seem to work just fine though ... I wanted to test a full blown heavy Blender render, but for some reason official blender 4.2 installer seems to be broken right now, and won't launch due to missing DLLs, even though I installed it on another Win10 based AMD (AM5) system a week ago for someone else. Maybe something up with my current Win10 installation (which was a rough new fresh one done a few months back), basically Blender.exe can't find MSVCP140.dll inside the ..crt folder of the installation. I tried redownloading from another mirror and repairing the installation, but it did not help.
Now I have 2 other GPUs nearby that I can borrow and do some tests, a Radeon RX 7800X and a Nvidia ...1070, lastly I can switch back to my old AMD CPU (Ryzen 5 4650G APU) and try my new GPU with the old CPU.
It would be the best if just the GPU was at fault ... but if it's a compatability issue, I think a replacement won't help, I might have to totally replace for a different brand or a model of GPU.
It seems, to me that ever since I upgraded to a newer GPU, that pretty much all games (tho I don't play a lot like I used to) started freezing after just about 10-15 minutes.
One of the games is Fortnite, the other is a flight sim, two completely different kind of games.
Under the hood it may be a BSOD, because a bugcheck event gets created and an automatic memory dump of 2-3 GB gets written as "MEMORY.DMP" from which I've analyzed:
WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR
Module Name: AuthenticAMD.sys
Further analysis says: Fatal BUS Error - BUSL1_SRC_IRD_I_NOTIMEOUT_ERR (Proc 10 Bank 1)
I might post more detailed screenshots later, right now I'm not typing from the problematic machine.
This is what hints it could be a CPU problem, because I've actually upgraded to a new CPU a few months before the GPU, but I remember playing the same games with the newer CPU and the older GPU ...
Maybe a BIOS update coinciding the upgrade in the week around the upgrade of the GPU could be the blame, these motherboards and CPUs was known for USB connectivity issues plaguing a lot of users.
It's an AMD AM4 system, ASUS ROG Strix X570-E motherboard with AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and initially an older AMD Radeon GPU, one that I upgraded with Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 6700XT, around that time I started experiencing freezes in games, even though it would all work otherwise. The PSU is a higher tier platinum Corsair HX 750W.
I'm a senior advanced PC user despite this being the first post, I've lurked around here for quite a long time
So troubleshooting isn't a first for me, infact it's one of my cup of tea's back when I had more free time, I would dig deep into all kinds of issues, so there's a whole bunch of basics and stuff I've already tried. This issue's just a bit more mysterious and it's affecting my primary work setup, so I rather post it up for reference and get it documented for clarity and recall.I haven't tried everything yet though, so far I've tried on a new installation of Win10, other games, disabled AMD DOCP and did some benchmarks in Cinebench. I did two 3 hour tests with Prime95, one for max CPU stress and one for RAM stress. I've yet to do OCCT, and rendering programs.
Development and workstation type programs without fully rendering do seem to work just fine though ... I wanted to test a full blown heavy Blender render, but for some reason official blender 4.2 installer seems to be broken right now, and won't launch due to missing DLLs, even though I installed it on another Win10 based AMD (AM5) system a week ago for someone else. Maybe something up with my current Win10 installation (which was a rough new fresh one done a few months back), basically Blender.exe can't find MSVCP140.dll inside the ..crt folder of the installation. I tried redownloading from another mirror and repairing the installation, but it did not help.
Now I have 2 other GPUs nearby that I can borrow and do some tests, a Radeon RX 7800X and a Nvidia ...1070, lastly I can switch back to my old AMD CPU (Ryzen 5 4650G APU) and try my new GPU with the old CPU.
It would be the best if just the GPU was at fault ... but if it's a compatability issue, I think a replacement won't help, I might have to totally replace for a different brand or a model of GPU.
