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russell_john AMD EEU is also present if you have an AMD CPU but doesn't seem to exhibit the same behavior and seems to be mostly idle. ReBAR also works different with Nvidia and is turned on and off on a game by game basis. You'd be surprised how many games have ReBAR turned off by default in the Nvidia drivers. For instance Ubisoft's latest Shadows and Black Flag Resynced both have ReBAR turned off by default. Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered has ReBAR off while Horizon Forbidden West has it turned on. AMD on the other hand turns it on for everything whether it helps or not Reply
Jabberwocky79 Well I wasn't seeing the offending .exe's in my list, but I definitely have noticed a 1% drop in longevity about every 5 months – not as bad as reported, but I have been wondering why. Maybe this is why Reply
Arkitekt78 You won't get a fix… remember AMD doesnt care about consumers anymore, only data centers. Reply
Tulpin Last year my brand new drive cooked itself inside 2 years of use only really gaming. And I found it temps were way higher on idle than it should be but wasn't smart enough to look for this stuff. Now I see my new expensive drive was also getting chewed up. But I have disabled the culprit. When does amd send me the cheque for my SSD they nuked? Reply
hotaru251 hmm i wonder if something similar with nvidia gpus on amd cpu systems as i have noticed my ssd storage randomly go up and down (soemtiems gigabytes a day) even while idle. Reply
GeorgeLY Fortunately does not look that it affects Linux: I have system with AMD graphics, which I use daily in Linux for work and very occasionally in Windows. I do play on it from time to time. `smartctl` shows ~900 days of being on and total written at 69TB, which is slightly more than 1% of its resource. Reply
artk2219 Arkitekt78 said: You won't get a fix… remember AMD doesnt care about consumers anymore, only data centers. There should be a fix in pretty short order, especially after a potential lawsuit. I can imagine that there are enough people around that they could get some sort of lawsuit thrown together in short order. Reply
Makaveli I already checked and that service is writing 0.6 mb/s and my SSD health is at 98% on a WD 850X that has been in use for about 3 years so not an issue here. I'm still on Win 10 Arkitekt78 said: You won't get a fix… remember AMD doesnt care about consumers anymore, only data centers. Ya except one of the AMD's dev's on reddit said it will be fix in the next driver version….. Reply
-Fran- I wonder if the issue is present in Linux as well. I haven't noticed anything strange with CachyOS, at least, so I hope not. Regards. Reply
helper800 russell_john said: AMD EEU is also present if you have an AMD CPU but doesn't seem to exhibit the same behavior and seems to be mostly idle. ReBAR also works different with Nvidia and is turned on and off on a game by game basis. You'd be surprised how many games have ReBAR turned off by default in the Nvidia drivers. For instance Ubisoft's latest Shadows and Black Flag Resynced both have ReBAR turned off by default. Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered has ReBAR off while Horizon Forbidden West has it turned on. AMD on the other hand turns it on for everything whether it helps or not Where does one 'turn on' rebar for these games? I Download the standalone driver for my card and have all those settings enabled in my motherboard's BIOS. I do not have any of those mentioned games, but is there literally a 'rebar' setting in the games settings? Do you turn these on in the Nvidia control panel that has to be downloaded through the MS store? Reply
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