And I don’t mean just the sim closes…the whole machine resets itself. Any help/suggestions would be hugely appreciated.
Brand new PC built just for MSFS…basically all the hardware one could want.
ryzen 5 5600x
6800xt
32gb ram
initial install on 500gb ssd, rest of files on D-drive, 1 tb ssd
And major issues. I mean it looks amazing when running. I have tried ultra and high to see if that helps, but same issues. Crashes every time I try and do a lesson. Sometimes the screen will flicker, sometimes not. It’s really frustrating.
Has happened before and after last update.
Is it possibly something small in terms of I have stuff plugged in wrong? Or do I need to mess with settings? Likely some combo I’m sure. Again, would be so appreciative of any guidance at all. Thankssss
Just of the top of my head try to remove the ram cards and reinstall making sure they are fully clipped in, just a possibility, I had issues when I built mine would boot up and keep resetting it self found I hadn’t pushed the card all the way in, not saying it is the fault but might be good luck.
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double-checked all four and they were good. thanks for idea, though!
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Whole machine shutting down under load ?
Do you hear a click when it happens ?
First item to look at is the power supply.
Second Item to look at is the CPU / Added to the situation that we have with Asobo spiking certain CPU cores usage to 100% that may well be an issue (That should be monitored as well and properly put through some cinebench runs)
Whats the power rating and specs ? / What type of CPU cooling are you using and what are your temps under load ?
Apart from flightsim you may want to try a few benchmarks as well to see if it can be reproduced.
this is clearly a hardwear issue. Welcome to the PC world.
Even your different drives can cause that.Why on earth are you seperating something thats whole as it is ? Folders ? I get it.But drives ?
Anyway,check also your PSU and your ram sticks
Nothing wrong with him having two drives for different purposes.
I have the exact same setup
Adata 8200pro 512gb (Sim was initially installed here and moved to the 1 tb drive)
Adata 8200pro 1 TB
Works fine … thats not his issue and its not a problem so berating him about something like that makes no sense.
What you can try to do is help him troubleshoot the issue and trust me … Those nvme’s are not it. (or at least not the first place to look)
Also … Bad ram throws up errors and crashes … not hard reboots.
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I am starting to think it’s monitor related? There’s a lot of flickering and sometimes a weird noise (not from the PC itself) and then eventually just kicks off. I installed monitor driver (it was on Windows default), but that doesn’t seem to have changed anything.
Just now, I was flying up the CA coast and flicker-flicker-weird noise-flicker-reset.
Doubt it. Unless of course… your pc is still running and the only thing your turning back on all this time is the monitor power button.
download 3dmark timespy demo, Heaven, cinebench23 and hwinfo64 and install them.
Find out what 5600x normal temps are at idle and under load for the cpu cooler that you are using… then start running some benchmarks while using hwinfo64 to monitor temps.
If you can get the system to not shut down running cinebench23 with then its not your cpu.
Ill help with the next stress test if you pass the one posted above.
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What wattage is the Powersupply? Are you running any overclocks?
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this is all somewhat over my head, but trying, haha. thanks so much for the help. on cinebench score came up as 10,703 pts
…on hwinfo, im not sure where to find the temp info but the active clocks on the 5 cores it shows…the bars are mostly full. not sure if that’s anything. sorry if my explanations are terrible.
ill try the other programs in a bit or maybe tomorrow. thanks again!!
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Try downloading ThrottleStop to see if running high load triggers thermal or vr throttling, causing the pc to ultimately shut down for safety.
I had this with my i9900. Main board was too weak to support load in the vram modules. Replaced the mainboard and now everything works great.
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If you need detailed info let me know.
Then try setting max processor load to 99% in windows advanced energy settings. Also make sure minimum processor load is not higher then max load. This prevents the processor from entering turbo mode which prevents vram modules from overheating. This probably takes a pretty big hit on the framerates (10% in my situation. But is for troubleshooting only) If no shutdowns now, you can be pretty certain there is a overheating issue. I’m not aware of a monitoring util for AMD. Please look around on internet. Its important that you get a feeling of what happens inside the processor /mobo.
thanks again for all the help.
turned max processor load down to 99% and fired up the sim. while just sitting on the main menu (was finishing a work email on other computer), the monitor/speakers made the sound and shut itself down. the weird thing (maybe?) is when this happens, the keyboard (and yoke) as well as the pc tower are all still lit up but the monitor essentially goes into what seems to be sleep mode. and there’s no way to wake it without turning everything back off and on again.
hopefully this is useful info!
…should mention, too…sometimes the flickering even occurs when just sitting on windows desktop without the sim running. don’t believe the pc has crashed during this, but occasionally (no rhyme or reason i can find) it will flicker while sitting there.
research on flickering all led to updating drivers, which has been done, for both the gpu and the monitor itself.
the flickering can be because you use possible FreeSync. But FreeSync not cause reboots.
More simple reason for flickering might be also a bad cable possible, but this cause also not PC reboots.
Thus, if is allways flickers and then directly reboots, it can also be your Graphics-Card. With bit luck it is only the AMD driver issue ( which version you have installed ? ).
If your PC does not reboot and you have only a Black-Screen or a CTD ( crash to desk ) then also other reason might be possible ( independen of flickering )… as example, memory XMP mode ( can also cause reboots, but often reported is CTD ).
thank you…just turned free sync off and will see if that helps.
as for amd driver version: 20.45.01.28-201204a-363904c-ati
…i had previously uninstalled and reinstalled the driver completely after reading that could be part of flickering. obviously did not help.
if flickering is gone if you disabled FreeSync, then it was because of FPS comes out of range. We have threads about, I have same with my FreeSync monitor.
Now, I assume disabling helps, then we have to find your crash issues.
I can’t realy help with AMD drivers, because I own an nvidia, but some users reported issues with specific driver versions.
In case of a crash you should normaly find an entry within the windows event viewer. Can you check this for ERROR entries and possible post the message of it ?
What also helps some users is to disable the rolling cache , possible you can try.
But as said, also check BIOS settings whether you have XMP mode enabled… try to disable.
It might be also a good idea to check your temperaturs, possible use tools like MSI-Afterburner ( the new version ).
just loaded the game with the amd system tool open and basically the issue would appear to be that even sitting at main menu, gpu load is in 90+% range. vram, cpu, ram all in the 20-30% range.
so i am hopeful that that at least gives us some understanding of what’s happening here?
thanks again to everyone.