Thread of PC Woes, Troubles, Problems, and Issues

It seems there is a problem with most (if not all) Nvidia GTX970 GPU's. They only allocate about 3.5GB of the VRAM, and not the full 4GB due to a severe degradation in performance when the last 500 or so MB's of VRAM is allocated.

I found this post on reddit initially: http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/2s2968/gtx970_memoryvram_allocation_bug/
Also this post here: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/803518/geforce-900-series/gtx-970-3-5gb-vram-issue/post/4430032/#4430032

There is a follow up post where Nvidia has acknowledged the problem and are looking into it. If this problem is not fixable with a firmware update or something similar, and it ends up being a hardware issue, I'm not sure what is going to happen, but this is quite shit, to say the least.
 
Blazzok said:
It seems there is a problem with most (if not all) Nvidia GTX970 GPU's. They only allocate about 3.5GB of the VRAM, and not the full 4GB due to a severe degradation in performance when the last 500 or so MB's of VRAM is allocated.

I found this post on reddit initially: http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/2s2968/gtx970_memoryvram_allocation_bug/
Also this post here: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/803518/geforce-900-series/gtx-970-3-5gb-vram-issue/post/4430032/#4430032

There is a follow up post where Nvidia has acknowledged the problem and are looking into it. If this problem is not fixable with a firmware update or something similar, and it ends up being a hardware issue, I'm not sure what is going to happen, but this is quite shit, to say the least.
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Yeah I read about this, I hope it can be fixed via driver or firmware update. :(
 
Anybody have any issues watching YouTube 720p60 vids where it seems to lag/stutter with the video?

The audio seems to be flawless, this never happens when viewing a standard 720p.
 
BeoTeK said:
Anybody have any issues watching YouTube 720p60 vids where it seems to lag/stutter with the video?

The audio seems to be flawless, this never happens when viewing a standard 720p.
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If you are using chrome go to settings (+advanced) and un-check "use hardware acceleration" for some reason it bugs out with some GPU's, it should not affect your CPU usage too much.
 
BeoTeK said:
Problem persists.
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Does your PC perhaps have a AMD display card? It seems to have a problem with HW acceleration and AMD drivers. Also check your CPU/RAM usage when watching a video.

I would also try a different web browser it could also be a problem persisting in chrome, I would also check that your CPU is not hitting 100% usage causing the frame drops but that is unlikely most modern CPU's can cope with 1080p video.
 
I don't have so much as a woe or a problem jsut need advice if joker's around to read this

My BF started giving me issues like 5 weeks ago with stuttering and huge FPS drops so much so that the game would freeze for up to 10 seconds.

2 days ago i reinstalled my windows and games and what not. so i installed my usual apps like msi after burner and played around with it and switched on the overlay

Saw that my GPU was running at 89% usage and using 3982gb of the mem on the R9 270X but running at a consant 64fps with it climbing but never dropping below and i saw that my BF stuttering was solved played for 3 hours no issue

Then i enabled xfire and played some more last night got constant 80fps also o stuttering and mem usages was about 5526gb from the 2 cards i presume but what i did notice was that my cards were running under load at only 33% usage

Now is this an issue or not if so how do i get it to use the max potential and capability of my 2 R9 270x cards
 
I had issues with Win 7 x64 and 32-bit Chrome, that went away once I went 64-bit Chrome...although it introduced some other minor
issues
 
Well, to be honest the main reason I use Chrome is that everything syncs so easily with my Google account.
 
phalen said:
hi guys - i have a problem with my vlc - when i try to watch an... ah... informational programs, it starts to stutter, or the picture freezes while sound continues, or the sound breaks as if it was shorting out (electrical short).

i dont have any 3rd party codecs installed. i strongly dislike windows media player.

i have 32gb of memory (brand new), a gigabyte nvidia gtx 760, intel core i7 4th gen - so its not like i'm lacking in hardware power.

all drivers are up to date.

any idea how i can fix this? or perhaps a different media player? codecs?
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It could be a codec issue, it could be even be something related to the video you're watching - poor encoding causing these stutters and freezes.

Have you tried other media players to see if this problem persists?
 
phalen said:
it persists with all media
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My only guess is that the videos themselves are poorly encoded... it's a common occurrence that such videos will suffer regardless of media player used.

Since I don't know what video you're watching and its properties (i.e. format, bit rate etc), I cannot give to much help or advice at this point.
 
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Glordit said:
No offence but VLC f*cking sucks. Period. It's UI is obtrusive, scaling system sucks and its also full of crap.

If you looking for something that will install and run everything download: CCCP it comes with Media Player Classic which uses less resources and is tiny.
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Was struggling to remember CCCP, so thanks for that.

And, no offence taken; only been using SPlayer - for years now and is something I'd recommend phalen uses. It is a lot more user-friendly than VLC.

SPlayer
 
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