Minotaurtoo

This room is on the "hot" side of the house with no shade and only a 6000BTU A/C... I don't even game in here during the day on summer days anymore... Back some years ago I messed up real bad and built an AMD FX system with two 7950's in crossfire.... that would push temps in here past 30C even with the AC on full blast... It's actually why I made this build the way I did, more cores than I need, but that way I get a better bin so I can get away with much less voltage and set a lower power limit. still get good multicore performance, and not loose any single core, but only at 65w... less than half what this chip on this motherboard pulls at stock settings... GPU I undervolt and lower power limit in the summer or when folding... of coarse when it's freezing cold like it's been, I do a one click bios profile change and a GPU power profile change and let the power flow lol.... But I digress, still, while I can, I'll be joining in on the folding team's competitions.

a large competition... hmm interesting. Soon temps here will start warming up and I'll have to sit out these competitions, but for now I'll be joining in.

thanks and it's my birthday today too so this makes it extra special

last night before going to bed I loaded my power profiles for long term folding. CPU power limited to 65w GPU limited to 145w Current CPU tpf: 3m 42s Current GPU tpf: 1m 37s Wondering now if that could be improved with some other tuning to increase power efficiency further.

nope, it didn't... This is why I don't usually talk anything politics on sites like this... I'm a bit of a centrist, mostly because I see both sides having hate groups, both sides posting crap like "punch a n@zi" or "stop the steal" and it always just makes things worse, no one wants to work things out peacefully because all people see on the news is the extreme ends of the spectrum... but since it's started, I'll throw out my view... Private companies can do what they want in this regard so long as it doesn't violate the anti trust law... section 230 is only supposed to protect public forum companies that don't take an editorial stance on their users content, like FB, Twitter, etc... unless you can prove AWS did either of those somehow then they've broken no law. I'm reminded now of the baker who didn't want to bake a cake for a certain couple... personally, for simple reasons of consistency, I have to argue that it's wrong to force a company to do business with someone they don't want to... that doesn't mean there won't be repercussions though.

1st off, Guys, I'm proud no one get stupid political over this in here... that makes my day! 2nd, I think Amazon will have repercussions from this that they didn't expect... a free market usually self corrects, unfortunately sometimes bad things happen along the way... still better than state/federal controlled version in my opinion, but it's just that, my opinion.

The tariffs really helped our steel company by helping us compete with cheap foreign products. Yes our raw material cost went up, but the lack of overseas competition made up for it. We make steel containers if it matters to anyone... That being said, I really don't see how any company can survive in Cali right now since their cooperate tax rates are so high.

Well, either way, I bet it will happen quicker here than at that "other site".... Thanks for the update and all your hard work here.

just in case someone searches this out, the solution that worked for me was to go in and disable pretty much all automated amd stuff... like automatic updates, auto set profiles and such... all manual settings...

that steam survey seems to be a bit random... I was asked to participate once... years ago... not since... I can't help but to wonder if it's really accurate at all given how rare I've seen it... How often, if ever, have you been asked to participate? btw, I've been through 4 builds since then.

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OMG found it... seems that it's an AMD file!... for some reason Dirt 5 triggers it, but I finally found the culprit in action... it's AMDRSServ.exe that's actually eating it up. Trying what you said as well, just in case there is some other interaction there that might be causing it... I did find this where at least a couple others were having similar issue with AMDRSServ.exe... but I didn't know that until I actually caught the little bugger chewing up my virtual memory... I will be watching and I'll get back when I know something, but I have to go back to work tomorrow so my gaming will be cut out a good bit.

Ok, no good... not sure what's going on, tried to find the process that was eating up the virtual memory, but not really sure how to do it... nothing showed that particularly active in the task manager and nothing was showing any actual disk usage... I'm going to try using performance monitor to see the hard fault count... perhaps I can find it that way... but once it starts I only have a few seconds before it chews through several gigabytes of allocation. thanks for your help

ok, tried disabling the page file and restarting... fail... or windows is lying.. not sure which... either way the game ran fine with the page file "turned off"... I will try a reinstall... and like you I was thinking it was a stuck process or similar issue. This issue is random so I really won't know for a while if it's fixed or not.

This is the first for me too... one thing I noticed since I was logged on last, is that the "leak" continues after exiting the game unless I sign out of windows and log back in... don't have to do a full restart, just sign out... will try your solutions soon.

Ok, recently installed Dirt 5 and am having a weird problem... system specs: OS is windows 10 latest build R9 3900X 5700XT 32GB Gskill 3200mhz RAM A plethora of hard drives including a 250GB 970 evo and a PNY XLR8 2 TB nvme drive. Issue: Randomly my page file will bloom from the normal 6 - 20GB to well over 60GB all while RAM usage stays under 25%... I have tried increasing virtual memory all the way up to 1TB just to see, still balloons that far eventually. It's almost like Dirt 5 or windows is forgetting it's already there and creating a new allocation for the game at some point along the way... if I exit the game in time to prevent a crash all is well and a simple sign out and back in restores page file usage to normal. This is the only game that does this and it doesn't do it often. edit: Forgot to add attempted solutions summary 1. switch from automatic virtual memory management to manual 2. increase allocation 3. change location of page file 4. load game different ways (compatibility) 5. close all other programs including as many background apps as possible. 6. say words my mother would get upset by if she heard... 7. swap windows accounts to my sons (testing settings differences)

cool, I won ... guess I need to pm Cerberus my info.

I got a PNY 2TB nvme drive for my steam drive... my son got a 4TB spinning drive for mass storage.

truth be told, I could run FAH on 3 more PCs here, but none of them are good number crunchers... in fact, one would likely take 3 days to get the first work unit done lol... Honestly I'm just impressed with the points a couple people here are racking up. It's fun to have a little competition for a good cause like this... and now that the cold front made it through, temps in this room have dropped to about 16C so I upped the power limits... 100w on CPU and 200w on the GPU... well actually the GPU is basically unlimited, but it's only hitting 200w.

Looking at the current stats last night and then again this morning I feel like that young kid in a sports car who gets passed 2 seconds after the race starts and now can barely see the F1 McLaren and Bugatti Chiron in the distance, but still feels decent because at least I'm still here with the Hondas and Mustangs... ?️ ? ?

I tried a few times and so far can't tell any significant difference between runs with CPU folding and not... I know the PPD estimates are hot garbage at times, but since starting folding for the competition today I've seen up to 1.8m ppd with high power limits and 1.6m ppd with 65w limit on the 3900x and 150w on the 5700xt... I tend to limit power when running days long computations or like now when it's hot in this room in December lol... supposed to cool down tomorrow so I'll be ramping back up then.

oooh, dark theme... looking forward to that one... seems like a small thing, but I tend to work in a dark room and white sites are a bit harsh.. Thanks!

let's pretend I'm a complete idiot for a moment... I haven't noticed this phenomenon of decreased PPD while CPU folding, of coarse I have pretty much always folding on the CPU and GPU, however, I think I would have noticed others getting significantly more GPU PPD than me... on the 5700 XT side I usually see around 1.2 million and around 400K on the cpu... sometimes I've seen a bit higher like 1.35 million/500K on easy ones when I have the power limits off.. I usually limit my cpu to 100w, no real reason other than keeping it in the efficiency window.... sooo, should I try without the CPU and see? Or am I strangely lucky and getting what I should expect.

I'll be there for it... At least for the latter bit... have to work the 23rd

@Bastiaan_NL Thanks ? There is a bit of story that I don't know if I ever told anyone at OCN... I know I haven't here yet... but I got into folding because of my wife... I found out that FAH was using peoples PC's to help find cures for cancer...which she had a very slow type of... then her health went down hill... and over time I found more and more that the things she was suffering from were included in the research pieces being sent out. It makes it personal. So instead of using a space heater to heat my office/bedroom area, I use my PC... win/win as I see it... Funny bit though, I kinda miss my old Vega card on those really cold nights ?. I'd get more points if I folded year round/all day, but it gets to hot in here if I do that. During the folding event, I have intentions of getting all my PC's that can fold involved... Interesting fact: My 3900x limited to 100w is getting almost the same PPD as my old fury x did.