Medium Range PC - Slow post times and general Sluggishness.

Chadelz

Chadelz

Chadelz

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Hi Guys,

In the past I think I've come to this forum a few times and have always found some great advice, hoping to get the same again and I will say it is always appreciated!

My PC has been giving me issues for some time, and I've struggled to find a solution myself.

When I boot it up, the MSI logo spins for about a minute or two before I get into windows and once I've put my password in and load up my start up apps take about a min or two again before they start loading.

Most games give me issues, no matter what settings I am on and I have tried using some of the AMD Adrenalin settings, Anti-lag, Fluid Motion Frames, Vsync on and off, I've tried upscaling 1080 to 1440 with FSR and tried running Adrenalin on Default and letting the game take priority but my average frames are usually around 40-50.

The most recent game is POE2, not sure how optimized it is for AMD cards but I've tried, DX12 and Vulkan and more or less the same result, the moment the screen gets busy my frames drop to about 30 and it gets worse the more I juice my maps as more happens on the screen then. GPU and CPU on the graph don't hit 100% but I think the shader cache does, need to double check that.

Also when I load up POE2, my game screen doesn't initially fill the screen and instead takes up about 2/3 of my screen towards the bottom right and freezes on a black screen for about a minute before it loads.

My PC Specs are:
Ryzen 5 7600x - Latest chipset drivers installed.
Crucial P3 Plus 2TB M.2 - No firmware updates available
MSI Tomahawk B650 Wifi - Bios updated to the latest
Sapphire 7900GRE Nitro+ GPU - Latest drivers installed
32gb Corsair Vengeance 6000MHZ Ram - Expo enabled
Corsair RM750 Gold+

CPU Game boost is enabled in bios, I did see that the Ryzen 5 7600x out of the box comes with a little OC already so game boost should likely be turned off instead - Open to advice on this one.

I'm starting to regret buying the 7900GRE as I don't feel like it pushes out the frames in any game, unless I upgrade my processor to the 7800X3d when it goes on sale and hope it makes a difference but I think the 7600x is quite good overall so maybe not.

Outside of games, my pc generally runs smooth but I can't really play games without issues, Battlefield 6 lagged when I played the beta.
 
Something ain't right, your specs are a solid mid range pc shouldn't have any problems, might be a problem with your m.2 or interconnect you mentioned more than once unusually long loading times.
 
Slow boot times on AMD is likely due to DDR5 training - you can try to tweak it with settings like Memory Context Restore but results may vary.
 
Chadelz said:
Outside of games, my pc generally runs smooth but I can't really play games without issues, Battlefield 6 lagged when I played the beta.
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Can you please run a benchmark that we can compare scores, like 3D Mark Timespy and do the same with the CPU (like Cinebench). That will check if your hardware is performing normally. Running hwinfo's sensor tab alongside can help spot other forums like throttling.

Chadelz said:
Most games give me issues, no matter what settings I am on and I have tried using some of the AMD Adrenalin settings, Anti-lag, Fluid Motion Frames, Vsync on and off, I've tried upscaling 1080 to 1440 with FSR and tried running Adrenalin on Default and letting the game take priority but my average frames are usually around 40-50.
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Very hard to say if that number is normal or not. Modern AAA games might well hit 40-50 FPS on a 7900 GRE @ 1440p at high settings, but in general it should be decently capable at this resolution without ray tracing, even when running natively.

Chadelz said:
once I've put my password in and load up my start up apps take about a min or two again before they start loading.
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Chadelz said:
Also when I load up POE2, my game screen doesn't initially fill the screen and instead takes up about 2/3 of my screen towards the bottom right and freezes on a black screen for about a minute before it loads.
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Can you check in the event viewer to see if there's anything interesting?

Do you run any monitoring software or other tools while gaming?

Do you close all other apps?

Chadelz said:
CPU Game boost is enabled in bios, I did see that the Ryzen 5 7600x out of the box comes with a little OC already so game boost should likely be turned off instead - Open to advice on this one.
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Turn it off.
 
Tetras said:
Can you please run a benchmark that we can compare scores, like 3D Mark Timespy and do the same with the CPU (like Cinebench). That will check if your hardware is performing normally. Running hwinfo's sensor tab alongside can help spot other forums like throttling.


Very hard to say if that number is normal or not. Modern AAA games might well hit 40-50 FPS on a 7900 GRE @ 1440p at high settings, but in general it should be decently capable at this resolution without ray tracing, even when running natively.



Can you check in the event viewer to see if there's anything interesting?

Do you run any monitoring software or other tools while gaming?

Do you close all other apps?


Turn it off.
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Thanks for the questions, I will run the tests and checked event viewer, had a few DLLs giving issues, so ran sfc /scannow. The files I found corrupt were BthA2dp.sys, BthHfEnum.sys and bthmodem.sys. in event viewer two DLLs are giving errors they are wmiaprpl.dll and msdtcuiu.DLL no idea what they are. Other than that just a bunch of DistributedCOM warnings. I don't run any monitoring software while gaming and everything is closed when gaming besides the usual, discord and maybe spotify.
 
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