I just got done rebuilding an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G system that some kid had built and sold that had issues. (had a lot of issues)
32GB of DDR4
Samsung 512GB NVME
Gigabyte motherboard
Cooler Master 850W PSU
Asus 2070
Anyway, after tearing it down, fixing the standoff problems, (the motherboard was literally warped) correcting the heatsink mounting, upgraded the PSU to an 850W (was 500W), installed the Asus 2070, (it had no dedicated GPU) I’m right now downloading the high res packs.
I’m going to do several play tests:
This is Windows 11, so to start with, I let it install the default Nvidia driver that Windows Update puts in. Not going to update it yet.
Not going to change any nvidia settings.
Running 2 monitors for now. Will swap to 4K too later on.
Going to monitor temps on one screen with just HWMonitor for now.
Going to run the game at max settings, right off the bat. See if I can get it to act up.
Who knows, I might pop a 2070 later tonight. lol
Then from there if it doesn’t die, will swap to the 4K and try that at max settings.
If its unplayable, I will start backing some things down.
If I can reproduce some of the issues many of you are seeing, then I will look into those. Since my main box doesn’t seem to have issues, I’m trying to create some. *shrug
I want to get to the bottom of this. Will update later or in the morning.
Well, first test was surprising.
Right out of the box, the game didn’t like my GPU driver version. (it was older than the minimum)
I then put in the bypassgpucheck command. Ran it with that older driver anyway.
Loaded up, got in game, played till the VRAM maxed out. Honestly, played fairly well, only a little FPS drop here and there (it was defaulted to high settings at first and running 60FPS)
Since it was playable and not really acting up, I cranked the graphics to Ultra.
Continued playing for a while more. More noticeable stagger, but still playable. It was choking a bit on the Ultra settings. BUT.
No crashes, no real issues other than I could tell it was struggling to run the game with those settings.
I kept jumping from town to town, talking to vendors and just leaving the windows open for several minutes, then go fight monsters, teleport back to town, go into a dungeon, leave, teleport, whatever.
Nothing. No crashes, no errors, just not as smooth due to the lower end hardware and ultra settings.
Heat wise, GPU topped out at about 175F on the HotSpot. I suspect the VRAM may have gotten to 180F.
VRAM Memory at peak was 99.9% utilized.
System RAM hit a peak of over 15GB for game and system.
CPU temp hit a high of about 160F.
And other than some latency spikes thanks to my Starlink and the trees giving me trouble occasionally, the latency stayed below 100ms most of the time. No disconnects or other issues. I think it only rubberbanded once, but I know what caused it.
So…
I’m literally wanting to pound my head on the desk.
I guess next I will start updating the video driver incrementally. Will try the 4K monitor. But bed is calling.
More tomorrow. Ugh. Game on.