Soldato
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The Radeon RX 6900/6950 XT Owners Thread.
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This is one of the more calmer or calming threads.
Soldato
One thing to think about - what power settings are you using for your pc? I accidently gimped by 5800 last week as i hadnt played any games on it in ages as its in my mining rig, i forgot id set it to run the power savings mode, everything ran horribly till i changed it to performance in the windows power plan
Soldato
It's a way of using MPT to increase the voltage a little bit past the stock values. I use it to give my Toxic a little nudge over the default voltage. I only add 0.012v to the stock voltage just for added stability as I have the temperature and power headroom.
FCLK is the infinity fabric clock speed. It gives a small improvement to benchmark/game performance when overclocked past the default value of 1944. The difference is not huge though, but generally XTXH seem to allow somewhere between 2100-2200Mhz FCLK at stock voltage of 1.2v.
Feel free to send me a trust if you want more information. Not going to post it here because people might start putting 1.3v through their air cooled GPU.
Not recommended, but if the sticks are capable of running at the same frequency and timings, it should be okay. It would be a shame though if you have to gimp your good kit by pairing them with a lesser kit, but worth trying nonetheless to see if it helps your issue.
Yeah bud i didn't want you to post anything here
tis a dangerous game, trust incoming.
Associate
I will check this when I get home. I think I recently changed this to balanced.
Also I forgot to mention guys, you know on the menu as you wait for the server to populate on Warzone @LtMatt? If I move my cursor quickly my FPS tanks whilst on the menu. If I keep it still, it holds at 200. Does this happen to you?
Caporegime
Hmm, I don't think so, but I've uninstalled Warzone again.
I shall once again start the download over night to test it tomorrow and let you know. I really just need to keep the damn thing installed.
I can say for sure it does not happen in Vanguard though as I still have that installed.
Could you try changing your mouse polling speed perhaps? Make sure enhanced sync is off, anti lag, freesync etc, see if any of that helps (unlikely).
One other thought, make sure this is disabled.
That's all I can think of for now.
Associate
Hmm, I don't think so, but I've uninstalled Warzone again.
I shall once again start the download over night to test it tomorrow and let you know. I really just need to keep the damn thing installed.
I can say for sure it does not happen in Vanguard though as I still have that installed.
Could you try changing your mouse polling speed perhaps? Make sure enhanced sync is off, anti lag, freesync etc, see if any of that helps (unlikely).
One other thought, make sure this is disabled.
That's all I can think of for now.
Oh man! WZ is a hugee D/L too! Let me know though please, I would love to know if it's an issue my end.
I'm gonna get home in a hour and I'm gonna be at this for most of the night. Weirdly it's not even irritating yet, I quite enjoy the whole troubleshooting aspect of my first build.
I just hope I do find a solution because I enjoy WZ and it was the main reason I upgraded my rig. I7-10700K + 3070 wasn't really cutting it for me.
Associate
So guys, it looks like I MAY have fixed my issue.
When I got home, the first thing I did was open up my computer and mess around with the cables. I took out the PSU and essentially plugged everything in from scratch again. But my 6900XT requires 3 PCIE cables. I noticed that I had one plugged into the Sata and Peripherals slots. I did a quick google to see if this was an issue and people seemed to be suggesting that it was. So I took that out and instead used 2 cables, with 1 extension from one of those.
I ran Warzone and my frames were pretty terrible, but it was surprisingly smooth. I was getting around 130-160fps but it still felt quite nice. I exited Warzone, applied a GPU overclock within Radeon Software and enabled fast RAM timings too. I jumped back into a game of Warzone and my frames were back to their usual values - anywhere from 190-240fps. I have Vsync enabled with Freesync so it won't go above that. If it was uncapped, some areas certainly would. Anyway, the big thing is...no stutters. No random frame drops. Now I played an entire BR match for about 10-15 minutes and it was noticeably smoother than it has ever been and there wasn't a single stutter. My frames occasionally dropped into the 170s in certain areas of Capital, but that is one of the most demanding parts of the whole map. And it wasn't abrupt and brief, so it didn't give off the feeling of a stutter.
I will continue to play test but I think I have solved it. Whether it was the PSU cable thing or something else, I'm not sure, but I'm getting really nice performance now, and I haven't even applied a good PBO OC or OC'd my RAM yet.
Thanks to everyone who helped. I'm gonna stick around and post regularly. You guys are nice to interact with.
When I got home, the first thing I did was open up my computer and mess around with the cables. I took out the PSU and essentially plugged everything in from scratch again. But my 6900XT requires 3 PCIE cables. I noticed that I had one plugged into the Sata and Peripherals slots. I did a quick google to see if this was an issue and people seemed to be suggesting that it was. So I took that out and instead used 2 cables, with 1 extension from one of those.
I ran Warzone and my frames were pretty terrible, but it was surprisingly smooth. I was getting around 130-160fps but it still felt quite nice. I exited Warzone, applied a GPU overclock within Radeon Software and enabled fast RAM timings too. I jumped back into a game of Warzone and my frames were back to their usual values - anywhere from 190-240fps. I have Vsync enabled with Freesync so it won't go above that. If it was uncapped, some areas certainly would. Anyway, the big thing is...no stutters. No random frame drops. Now I played an entire BR match for about 10-15 minutes and it was noticeably smoother than it has ever been and there wasn't a single stutter. My frames occasionally dropped into the 170s in certain areas of Capital, but that is one of the most demanding parts of the whole map. And it wasn't abrupt and brief, so it didn't give off the feeling of a stutter.
I will continue to play test but I think I have solved it. Whether it was the PSU cable thing or something else, I'm not sure, but I'm getting really nice performance now, and I haven't even applied a good PBO OC or OC'd my RAM yet.
Thanks to everyone who helped. I'm gonna stick around and post regularly. You guys are nice to interact with.
Caporegime
Excellent news!
Now you can have fun squeezing a bit more performance out of your system.
Have to say that’s a new one on me. I’ll add that suggestion to the troubleshooting list when the next person has issues with Warzone.
Caporegime
Warzones finished downloading, guess I'll uninstall it again. 
@Mattpt Did you have any luck with your Warzone issue?
@Mattpt Did you have any luck with your Warzone issue?
Associate
Warzones finished downloading, guess I'll uninstall it again.
@Mattpt Did you have any luck with your Warzone issue?
Unfortunately I started getting the stutters again! Lol. Can you check to see if your FPS tanks when moving your mouse quickly on the menu mate??
I’m also having an issue where my pc doesn’t post on cold boot. I restart it and it’s fine, but if I don’t use the PC for awhile then it’s a no go.
Sigh.
Caporegime
No it does not, stays locked at 60 which is what I have set for menu FPS. I recorded a quick gif, but it's hard to tell looking at it.
https://imgur.com/FnSJur3
With regard to your PC not booting, are you sure your memory is stable? Perhaps it's just a boot issue, but make sure you are on the latest BIOS and try putting back frequency a notch or two lower see if it still happens. Same with timings. Often it can be one or two timing settings that can cause that.
Associate
No it does not, stays locked at 60 which is what I have set for menu FPS. I recorded a quick gif, but it's hard to tell looking at it.
https://imgur.com/FnSJur3
With regard to your PC not booting, are you sure your memory is stable? Perhaps it's just a boot issue, but make sure you are on the latest BIOS and try putting back frequency a notch or two lower see if it still happens. Same with timings. Often it can be one or two timing settings that can cause that.
Can you unlock your FPS and check please? Might won't tank if I cap to 60, but if it's at like 140+ then it will go all the way down if I move my cursor. Sorry to be a pain.
Regarding the memory, this has been an issue even at stock speeds with XMP enabled. It only started happening once I swapped the 3070 for a 6900xt. Brand new high end PSU too.
May I ask how you have your 6900xt connected? Is it 3xPCIE or 2?
Caporegime
I've already tried, it's the same. I only noticed a little hitching on that screen when the shaders were compiling. Once they were done, it was fine.
x3 PCI-E connectors required for the Toxic EE 6900 XT. I use three separate, horrible looking cables as I don't trust any form of PSU cable extension.
Associate
I've already tried, it's the same. I only noticed a little hitching on that screen when the shaders were compiling. Once they were done, it was fine.
x3 PCI-E connectors required for the Toxic EE 6900 XT. I use three separate, horrible looking cables as I don't trust any form of PSU cable extension.
Thanks for checking mate. There is definitely a problem with my system then.
I am using extension cables. Maybe I should try without....
Caporegime
Yeah you might have a few issues going on there tbh, hopefully you can get to the bottom of it.
Associate
First thing I'm going to do is remove the extension cables and see.
Can bad cable management cause issues like this? I have them all twisted and scrunched up in the back of the case out of the way.
Caporegime
Soldato
Dont know whether it makes any difference but I had a RM850x PSU and I was wondering whether my 6900xt was power limited as I didnt seem to be getting GPU clocks above 2400mhz in games at default etc and I put in a H1000W PSU and I have noticed it goes over 2500mhz now but whether its just coincidence but it seems to run better now although I've never done any serious overclocking with it.
Caporegime
Could be, 850W is the recommended minimum. That's for a 6900 XTX, 255W stock power limit.
With an XTXH, with higher voltage and power limits, three PCI-E connectors, I'd recommend 1000W Platinum PSU at a minimum, which is what I use.
Soldato
Yeah thats what I switched to.