Nvidia Re-Size Bar/SAM support is live for some cards, more in March - 10% performance gains

chrcoluk · 30 Mar 2021 at 15:32

It can save to usb yeah, I will try that, but I did read people were unable to load from usb with bios claiming its incompatible, so will still take photos of each page to be safe.

JohnG7 · 30 Mar 2021 at 15:33

Take captures from Bios screens using Bios tools to save to USB no need to take with your phone.

Orcvader · 30 Mar 2021 at 15:34

Did the driver update, restarted, then did the firmware update, restarted again. Already on the BIOS that enables resizable BAR so didn't need to update that.

I'm guessing this means it worked?

I'm on a Zen 2 CPU so was expecting it to still say no.

Zeeflyboy · 30 Mar 2021 at 15:58

didn't we need a bios update for the cards themselves?

JohnG7 · 30 Mar 2021 at 15:59

Zeeflyboy · 30 Mar 2021 at 16:03

Ah I found it - if you are on an FE card you get the VBIOS tool here NVIDIA Resizable BAR Firmware Update Tool | NVIDIA (custhelp.com)

Needles · 30 Mar 2021 at 16:07

Updated my MSI 3080 Gaming X card bios, shows resizable bar enabled in the nvidia control panel sys information panel.

Mobo bios updated a while back.

newuser · 30 Mar 2021 at 16:12

Just noticed that they've expanded the supported games list slightly as well. Rebar and Cyberpunk patch. What a time to be alive!

FTP-FPS-Duck · 30 Mar 2021 at 16:17

Zeeflyboy said:
Ah I found it - if you are on an FE card you get the VBIOS tool here NVIDIA Resizable BAR Firmware Update Tool | NVIDIA (custhelp.com)

Much appreciated. No idea that was a requirement, thought the drivers would get the job done.

Steve Hel · 30 Mar 2021 at 16:22

Just done this for the 3090Ftw3 Ultra on Z490 Hero. No issues.

Zeeflyboy · 30 Mar 2021 at 16:37

Weird, mine is still saying "no" next to resizable BAR

I'm running latest BIOS (33i using 1.2.0.1A) on a 5800X and X570 Aorus Master, with 3090FE. I've enabled both above 4G encoding and Resizable BAR in BIOS (only option for the latter is Auto or disabled, so I chose Auto), I've run the VBIOS update and the installer confirms that the card is already updated if I try to run it again, I'm on the latest 465.89 driver and I've rebooted several times....

Any ideas?

Dontrocktheboat · 30 Mar 2021 at 17:08

3090 bios updated and new drivers installed.

Welcome SAM. It just works.

LtMatt · 30 Mar 2021 at 17:22

Dontrocktheboat said:
3090 bios updated and new drivers installed.

Welcome SAM. It just works.

How are you finding it?

I am looking forward to your updated scores in the Valhalla and Forza benchmark threads, might encourage me to come out of retirement.

Dontrocktheboat · 30 Mar 2021 at 17:26

LtMatt said:
How are you finding it?

I am looking forward to your updated scores in the Valhalla and Forza benchmark threads, might encourage me to come out of retirement.

havent got Valhalla atm, missed out on that game due to MSI offer expiring. grrr. :mad:

going to try forza out now.

IT Troll · 30 Mar 2021 at 17:40

AthlonXP1800 said:
MSI Adds Resizable-BAR Support To Its Entire Intel 300-Series Motherboard Lineup Including Z390, H370, B360, H310 – Z370 BIOS Coming Soon!

https://wccftech.com/msi-adds-resiz...eries-motherboard-lineup-z390-h370-b360-h310/

Back in January 2021 I was disappointed there was no mentioned of Resizable-BAR support for Z370 but until today I found out the news that it will coming to Z370 owners soon probably just in time for VBIOS update for all RTX 3000 series graphics cards.

MSI have indeed released a BIOS for my board, but 9th gen chipsets/CPUs are not mentioned on Nvidia's article. I wonder if it will work...

Dontrocktheboat · 30 Mar 2021 at 18:03

LtMatt said:
How are you finding it?

I am looking forward to your updated scores in the Valhalla and Forza benchmark threads, might encourage me to come out of retirement.

Decent gains with Re-bar just run it. No longer number 1 LtMatt soz bro :0)

lvl playing filed now

about 3-4% up

ltron · 30 Mar 2021 at 18:05

Zeeflyboy said:
Weird, mine is still saying "no" next to resizable BAR

I'm running latest BIOS (33i using 1.2.0.1A) on a 5800X and X570 Aorus Master, with 3090FE. I've enabled both above 4G encoding and Resizable BAR in BIOS (only option for the latter is Auto or disabled, so I chose Auto), I've run the VBIOS update and the installer confirms that the card is already updated if I try to run it again, I'm on the latest 465.89 driver and I've rebooted several times....

Any ideas?

You've run the VBIOS updater for the GPU? Try disabling CSM, however if your drive is formatted to use MBR partitioning instead of GPT it will render the system unbootable.

LtMatt · 30 Mar 2021 at 18:06

Dontrocktheboat said:
Decent gains with Re-bar just run it. No longer number 1 LtMatt soz bro :0)

lvl playing filed now about 3-4% up

Nice. I want to see 1080P-2160P benches please.

I'll download it and see if i can improve mine once yours has been posted.

Zeeflyboy · 30 Mar 2021 at 18:07

ltron said:
Disable CSM, however if your drive is formatted to use MBR partitioning instead of GPT it will render the system unbootable.

Cheers, I had arrived at that conclusion too after a post from a user on tweaktown guess what my drive is formatted as :cry:

if I disable above 4G and resizable bar I have CSM disabled and it works fine. With them enabled though the only way to boot is with CSM enabled.

balls. I’m going to have a fun time reinstalling windows aren’t I.

ltron · 30 Mar 2021 at 18:09

Zeeflyboy said:
guess what my drive is formatted as

balls. I’m going to have a fun time reinstalling windows aren’t I.

Try this first, you might not have to reinstall: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/convert-mbr-to-gpt-disk
Back up your data first of course.

I don't know if this all works as I haven't tried it but more instructions: https://beebom.com/convert-mbr-to-gpt/