[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

As AMD owner that has experienced this issue, the black screen crash is manageable for some symptoms and very likely not AMD's fault. And it's NOT just 7000 series, it's happened to Nvidia card as well if you search for the "Nvidia black screen crash".

Disclaimer, not all crashes in that link you posted is related to the same cause, trust me because I did my home work when my 6800XT experienced the black crash. Specifically, mine is the monitor sleep crash(can't wake monitor up anymore but can hotkey reboot and sometimes goes into boot loop after a system critical error(have to cold shutdown unplug psu power cycle and then reconnet) usually around mid night update time.

What I found how to fix my issue is that there is an old version of driver that does not have this issue at all. Use that for quite a bit of time until someone else report more stability for a different version of driver then I tried again. But then I got tired of stuck at older version driver and experiment around, found that don't put screen to sleep and don't "lock" your windows(keep the windows at desktop and not lock it remove that black screen crash issue that I have. ** important, this is very different crash than the playing game and crash to black screen, which is much easily addressed as most that run into this(that I saw during my hunt to fix my issue) have bad component or PSU not good enough. **

And, my new rig also full amd setup does not suffer the same issue at all with desktop lock or monitor sleep after 15mins.

old rig: 6800XT amd stock, auros master MB, 3900X new rig: 7900XTX Merc, msi B650 MB, 7800X3D

Yes, I've done firmware updates and everything. You might be wondering, why I said it might not be AMD's fault after I said there is a version of old driver that does not have this issue. My reasoning is like this. The older version of driver probably did not implement some more modern power saving or whatever inter device communication protocols that leads to the crash thus aren't triggering it. The why it's seems so wide spread is because it could be triggered and happen when one of the component can't return and communicate with the system properly. That means, in my case more power management related issue:

  • the MB bios regarding power policy issues.
  • windows driver/kernel that manage power policy( I don't think I've seen any post that have this black screen crash on Linux)
  • monitor bios and the connections
  • display driver and protocols responding to the requests(windows have to go through GPU to ask monitor to go sleep)

See how many points of failure this could happen? Now think about how most people use their hardware and upgrades? ie.

  • how many people upgrade their graphic card and then check if their MB/Monitor firmware is up to date??
  • how many people keeps delaying driver updates or windows updates??
  • how many manufacturer stops updating firmware for their older MB/Monitor?? (I pretty much suspicious of my Acer 144hz 4k IPS panel for causing the crash, cause at the time I was investigating, the monitor's firmware is already old enough, from 2021, just went back to check again and still the same version.)

I hope my information show that it's manageable and not a hard problem to get around. And actually running into this is pretty rare as there aren't a lot of thread and not really "wide" spread.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

make sense but it's unfortunate Dreams didn't take off like LBP series were.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I think they have but the exploit probably also generated a new uuid. (I have no idea how they implemented but I believe they can track down all the items. )

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

It can happen at any stage where transistors are involved. So for important thing just ecc memory is not enough, I saw a video where newer space craft basically have a voting system, so 3 or 4 subsystem calculating exact same instructions, and the "majority" wins.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

don't buy it. I will just wait until all 3 released, and someone else put together a "no commentary/reaction" Youtube(or other) just to look at the cinematics. Then if I am really itchy at playing(which I won't, honestly), buy if off a huge sale later.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

dang this trailer is creepy.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Because Capcom's in-house game engine is really scalable.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

good thing the rendering engineers are willing to try different ways instead of stuck at this "real pixel" shit that some youtuber started. Even freaking Pixar that is grand daddy of CG tech also doing ML global illumination and temporal denoiser. some of our current gen realtime graphics literally took hours to render 10 years ago, hardware aren't improving that fast, it's the new algorithms and render method make it possible.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

gaming laptops are pretty much scam anyway, as person "once" fall for such scam.

  • they are really heavy, not really good with travel.
  • they are also power hungry, might be less than your actual tower rig, but significantly more than common "business laptop"
  • the battery won't last with degradation where you constantly plug it in.( to gain the boosted frequency where you can play games at higher settings/frame rate)
  • your upgrade path is very limited and they won't have the parts after like 2~3 years.(so anything broken you have to try find it on ebay/amazon/aliexpress)

for portable gaming during travel, your best choice is consoles. So switch, steamdeck, heck, even PS4 slim is better than gaming laptop.(hopefully PS5 pro/slim is made into form for easier box/travel format.)

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Reminds me community names a pencil Steve and the snaps it, people can get attached to anything really. ie. pet rock

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

The guy that has long since faded into history with occasional media fart that reminds us he exists.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

For a brief time I used Netflix, I was not impressed with the fluctuations of encoding/streaming quality.(yep, I know it's early days.) Fast forward to this year, I visited my friend's place to have a get together, one pick something to watch and yet with gigabit fibre internet it still looks shit and pixelated until it "catches up".

I'd buy downloads instead cause I can zoom around the show without worrying the quality.

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