AB350 Gaming-iTX/ac - freezing (oh no...)

Early on when Ryzen launched I would get hanging in games on my 1600x for about 3 - 5 seconds then back to normal (usually with me dead lol). 

Yeah that's one reason why I chose it to try on this system but not without seeing others trying it first.

There's a couple of tests and videos that stated it runs "OK" even on a 2200g (ofc on low settings) and my overal OK FPS are telling me that the system can run it pretty smoth.

Those drops are horrible, since they appear frequently and without any clear reason. I tried to quit any pograms that may interfere but nothing changes.

However I did some further investigations on that problem and found this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/82wmo3/2400g_users_turbo_off_helps_with_slowdowns_who/

This video shows basically the same behavior I'm experiencing with Origins. The frequenc it appears is different but it's exactly the same thing, smooth FPS, suddenly stuttering for ~3 seconds and again smooth FPS.

They say it's a bug in the CPU/APU turbo mode, which at least sounds plusible. I'll try this today and get back with results.

Thanks


Edited by Thenightstalker - 16 Mar 2018 at 6:58pm

Ok, looks like it's working now, kind of.

Here's what I did:
First I downloaded new beta bios and flashed it. Worked fine.
Then I set back the RAM to my "medium" settings > 3200 CL15/15/15/15 @1,4 V
Also set the frame buffer back to 2G where it was.

Then booting up, everything fine. I downloaded the chipset drivers and display drivers from AMD as well as the cleanup utility. No freezes or bsod so far!
After that I ran cleanup utility and removed all display drivers and tools. Then I installed the chipset drivers followed by the display drivers. Always properly restarting after each install, ofc.

After that I downloaded Assassin's Creed Origins which was a 43 GB and everything worked fine. The system fellt into suspend mode once but it turns back on immediately and worked fine.

Now comes the sad part ...
I wanted to try Origins because I've seen a couple of tests where the game ran quite well for an APU and I thought that's great, I'm ok with that performance and want to play it.
The game runs, I played the first part on a medium quality which was quite good except a few drops in fps but mostly OK. Even when you come to town it was playable but then after a while it started to stutter massively, everey 5-10 seconds it seemed to almost stop for 1-2 seconds before going on. I looked at the ingame benchmark and saw the awful result.

I set everything to low (not lowest) hoping it would help but no, same issue! It's like the game ist loading tons of data every few seconds and slows down like hell. That can't be normal!?
The ingame benchmark show a max. FPS of about 40 (medium) and 50 (low) so that's what I was expecting after seeing the tests but the average fps was about 20 because of the massive stuttering every few seconds.

I don't think that's a mainboard issue but maybe a settings issue, I don't know. Can anyone help?

Thanks

Stick with just chipset and graphics drivers for now, see what you get..........can take it from there......

that sound more like All-in-one drivers than chipset drivers, and you are very vague about which drivers and in what order.
You need to get this established really before anything else.
latest chipset drivers, complete package, no picking aand choosing, the whole package as is, and only from AMD, nowhere else.
Same with Radeon drivers, only from AMD site, latest version is still 17.7 I think.
MUST install chipset first, then graphics, and you must uninstall current drivers first before intalling latest.

https://support.amd.com/en-us/download


Edited by stree - 15 Mar 2018 at 9:45pm