Topic-Free Mega Thread - v 1.11.2020

GPUnity · August 15, 2020, 2:00am

Wut

Ahmlet · August 15, 2020, 4:13am

@Kaldaien hey Im into fallout 4 again and modding. Does the recommended settings still apply for the game? Because Im still getting stutters with these settings

HolyDeath3000 · August 15, 2020, 6:52pm

Well this article got interesting about Ubisoft.

Quite a few things going on in Ubisoft about misconduct and whole crazy storm going on.

HolyDeath3000 · August 15, 2020, 7:04pm

You want backbuffer to be 4 not 3. Or lower latency down to 4 if using backbuffer of 3.

And also your stutter might be due to using SSD or regular hdd. Known as hitching. Which still happens if an open world game. Normally you can’t get non existent stutter in such games. Due to how assets stream in and such.

galumn · August 15, 2020, 11:33pm

I have a question about waitable swapchain.

In HZD, the value of 10 is recommended for Borderless and 66 is for Fullscreen.

But for other games, how do I determine a proper value for waitable swapchain?

While the benefit between waitable swapchain on and off is clear, I can’t really see the differences when I tried using different values.

Could I just leave it at the default value of 15 for other games?

And is there any downside if I use a wrong value? like, would it cause micro-stutters or something else?

JonasBeckman · August 16, 2020, 4:46am

Looks like someone hacked the Github and other sites and sources for Retroarch and deleted everything.

Unfortunate, thought it would be much more secure than that as well so hopefully Git has some means to help them restore the content since it sounds like they’ve been trying to reach funding for backup means but hadn’t yet achieved this.

DoLLo · August 16, 2020, 7:46am

…because you haven’t activated(checkbox near “framerate limit”)the frame limiter?

Kaldaien · August 16, 2020, 7:53pm

Just set it to a non-zero value. Technically it needs to be at least 1 frame of wait time or it doesn’t do anything, 15 ms is usually at least 1 frame, unless your target framerate is < 60 FPS.

Kaldaien · August 16, 2020, 8:01pm

We’re going to need a new statistic

GPUnity · August 17, 2020, 11:55am

Kal can you check your PMs please?

JonasBeckman · August 17, 2020, 1:28pm

452.06 is coming up for NVIDIA it seems.

Game readiness.

Fixed issues.

Fixed Issues in this Release

[Shadow of the Tomb Raider][DirectX 12]: The game may crash when launched if Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling is enabled. [3037544]

[Death Stranding]: Texture corruption may be observed during gameplay on GeForce GTX 16/RTX 20 series GPUs. [200631405]

[Path of Exile]: Black square corruption appears around characters.[3038439]

[Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed]: The game crashes when playing in a water level. [3028931]

[Forza Motorsport 7]: The game starts to stutter after racing a few laps. [3035005]

[Zhan Ge Jing Ji Chang]: Corruption occurs in the game when played in the Tencent mobile game simulator. [200631684]

Several games randomly freeze for a few seconds during gameplay. Affected games include Assassin’s Creed Origins, Planetside 2, Assassin’s Creed III, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, and Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. [3038632]

The NVIDIA Control Panel does not display the native resolution of some HDTVs if the timings are invalid. [3060459]

Some displays may show a green tint when Windows Night Light is enabled. [3038686]

Snow appears on the display upon waking up the HDMI monitor. [3039265]

[Notebook][Turing] Display may show pixelated corruption on waking notebook from long display off [200633139]

Open issues.

Windows 10 Issues

[SLI][Red Dead Redemption 2]: With SLI enabled, the game may crash with ERR_GFX_STATE error pointing to nvlddmkm.sys after pressing [Alt]+[Tab].[3083589]

[SLI][G-SYNC][Red Dead Redemption 2 Vulkan]: With SLI + G-SYNC enabled, the games display corruption and a blank screen.[200645671]

[SLI][World of Warcraft Shadowlands]: Character images may flicker when SLI is enabled. [200647193]

[World of Warcraft Shadowlands]: When run at frame rates greater than 60 FPS with high display settings, moving characters display minute twitching/stuttering. [200647563]

[Sunset Overdrive]: The game may display random green corruption if Depth of Field is enabled from in-game settings. [2750770]

[VR]: HDCP errors occur with Valve Index VR. [2967616]

[Call of Duty - Warzone]: Freestyle does not work. [200593020]

[Call of Duty: Modern Warfare]: Game may randomly show large frame rate drop with ray tracing enabled [3050468]

[Forza Motorsport 7]: The curb may display a black strip during a race on certain tracks. [2781776]

[Fortnite]: Blue-screen crash occurs pointing to nvlddmkm.sys when playing the game at 4K resolution. [200645328]
To work around, set the resolution to lower than 4k.

[Zombie Army: Dead War 4][Ansel/Freestyle]: The Ansel & Freestyle tabs are unselectable. [2810884]

You may encounter issues installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store. See “Issues Installing the NVIDIA Control Panel from the Windows Store” on page 21 for more information.

Video playback on the secondary display lags/freezes while playing a game on the primary display if Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling is enabled [200586262]

[Notebook][H-Clone]: With the integrated graphics processor as the clone source, display settings cannot be changed from the NVIDIA Control Panel. [200594188]

[Notebook]: Some Pascal-based notebooks w/ high refresh rate displays may randomly drop to 60Hz during gameplay. [3009452]

EDIT:

???

Static or noise I assume but that’s a fun little mental image.

EDIT:
https://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/452.06/452.06-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe

https://uk.download.nvidia.com/Windows/452.06/452.06-desktop-win10-64bit-international-dch-whql.exe

Through Guru3D as the main page is still not quite up on NVIDIA’s website for these.

HolyDeath3000 · August 17, 2020, 4:40pm

Anyone know any good tips in tweaking HDR in RE2 Remake? gonna try to play game with HDR on. I hear its great when you get proper settings.

JonasBeckman · August 18, 2020, 3:13am

AMD 20.8.2
https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-rad-win-20-8-2

Support For

A Total War Saga™: Troy
    The High preset on the Radeon™ RX 5700 XT offers up to 12% better FPS performance playing A Total War Saga: Troy with Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2020 edition 20.8.2 versus the Radeon™ Software Adrenalin 2020 Edition 20.8.1RS-339
Microsoft Flight Simulator™
Mortal Shell™
Marvel’s Avengers™ Open Beta

Fixed Issues

Reports of intermittent system hangs while exiting system sleep on some AMD Ryzen™ 3000 Series Mobile Processors with Radeon™ Graphics. 
Pressing a key while Radeon Overlay is open, or exiting Radeon Overlay while playing Hyper Scape™, may cause the players actions to freeze or fail to recognize input from the user.
Upgrade Advisor may show an “Unable to get requirements” error message when opened on Windows® 7 system configurations.

Known Issues

With Radeon FreeSync enabled on Radeon RX 5000 series system configurations, task switching to another display or application may cause the display to flicker for a few moments.
Brightness flickering may be experienced on some VP9 video content playback through applications or web browsers on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics product system configurations.
Enhanced Sync may cause a black screen to occur when enabled on some games and system configurations. Any users who may be experiencing issues with Enhanced Sync enabled should disable it as a temporary workaround.
Performance Metrics Overlay and the Performance Tuning tab incorrectly report higher than expected idle clock speeds on Radeon RX 5700 series graphics products. Performance and power consumption are not impacted by this incorrect reporting.
With HDR enabled, Windows® desktop may experience flickering, and performing a task switch while in a game may cause colors to become washed out or over saturated.
Audio may experience instability when connected through an Audio Video Receiver via HDMI® on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products
YouTube playback may become frozen with Microsoft® Edge player and Chrome™ when played on an extended display on some AMD Ryzen™ 7 3000 series and AMD Ryzen™ 4000 series APU system configurations.
Modifying the HDMI Scaling slider may cause FPS to become locked to 30.
Some games may exhibit stutter intermittently during gameplay on Radeon RX 5000 series graphics products.
AMD will continue to monitor and investigate any new reports of black screen or system hang issues during extended periods of gameplay closely. Users are encouraged to use the new Bug Reporting Tool for any issues they may encounter.

Not much though it supports a few titles.

Darktalon · August 18, 2020, 6:47am

Microsoft Flight Simulator needs Special K in order to use G-sync. For whatever reason, they use discard bitblt, and fullscreen windowed when you choose fullscreen.

Ahmlet · August 18, 2020, 2:23pm

@Kaldaien you gonna check microsoft flight simulator ? seems performance is terrible even with a 2080rtx. lol

GPUnity · August 18, 2020, 3:18pm

The game looks way too good to not be demanding, at least based on Youtube videos i’ve seen. Haven’t tried it out yet.

JonasBeckman · August 18, 2020, 3:59pm

Yeah going by the Steam screenshots it’s pretty much a start for what to expect for the next generation of hardware and a step up in overall visual fidelity.

EDIT: SteamDB review average is at sub 50% though so I wonder if there was some launch snag.

EDIT: There’s some other really good images too, games rendering part of the entire world and can even simulate real time effects like storms and other weather phenomena so it’s not just the various assets and quality improvements.

Or however one could best describe it, impressive visuals and the simulation data too so no wonder it’s also quite demanding although going by the beta impressions back some week or two ago it should also be fairly scalable.

EDIT: Game is also something like 150+ GB plus more if you stream the higher quality settings and have the resources to enable everything, probably going to grow like many other sim games too with additional aircraft types maybe user created content and other additions over time.

GPUnity · August 18, 2020, 4:15pm

Seems like the game runs through the Mcrosoft store, and you’re required to download it from there too. Aka the Steam version is just a launcher for the Microsoft version. Your time spent downloading the game is also seemingly factored into play-time, which is really stupid for anyone who wants to refund.

Aemony · August 18, 2020, 5:11pm

The problem I had, with both versions, is that neither wanted to actually start downloading the god damn game for me.

Both just launches the fullscreen launcher and then just stops at 20% whatever it’s loading.

Like, this is the screen I’m permanently stuck on…

https://images.aemony.se/sharex/FlightSimulator_2020-08-18_19-11-00.png

Aemony · August 18, 2020, 5:44pm

30 minutes later and I’m still stuck at that exact screen, at that exact percentage.