Overclocking is a per Silicon thing. So you have to find the sweet-spot for yourself.
Start with 50Mhz, run test play games, if stable increase for 50Mhz more, and so forth until you will not start to crash. If it crashes decrease 50Mhz and increase instead for 10 and repeat the process, if crashes go back one step and crease by 5, repeat, crashes go back by 5 increase by 1.
Just so you know OC GPU is lengthy process, many times its not even worth it, cause it depends on-the Silicon lottery.
As @Seimus already wrote, itās about finding the sweet spot.
However, to quickly test whether this is even the issue, I would go really low, like 25% below default and then test whether the crashes stop. If they donāt, weāre on the wrong track.
At this point I have it down to 1900. Iāve just been decreasing it a little bit more each time it crashes and each time it seems to do better and better. So far havenāt had a crash at 1900 so that might be what it likes if not Iāll go down to either 1850 or 1800 but it does seem like this is fixing my issue.
I thought of this as kind of first step in narrowing it down, because I actually had a Radeon card last year that could not run stable on stock settings either.
It might be worth playing with both memory and GPU limits. In my experience memory causes much less performance decrease, barely noticeable in many cases. So if that does the trick it would be better than limiting the GPU.
Next step would be to run a benchmark and watch things like temperature, which could be related to the issue, but doesnāt have to be.
And if I remember correctly, it was also possible to overvolt in Adrenaline. Within reason, that could be used to stabilize the card on higher clocks. Itās important to watch the temps though when doing that because they could get higher than stock.
EDIT: 1 minute later it turns out, the card still crashes at 1800, so forget what I saidā¦
Alright, so update⦠I have under clocked it clear down to 1800 and it is still crashing⦠it might be a bit better but not completely fixed. I will have to take a look at some of the other troubleshooted steps that have been requested to see if I can narrow it down even further or supply details that help find the cause⦠Not sure if Iāll be able to get a photo of Htop that is relevant since it black screens and then when the screen initially comes back up the image is from a minute or 2 ago and it rarely freezes then blacks out.
From what I can tell, temps look normal and Im not seeing any spikes but I might not be looking in the right spot to find temps
I would have to agree with some others in this thread that it looks like it may be some issue with the VRAM, and possibly faulty hardware. First step I would suggest is testing VRAM with memtest_vulkan-git that is in the AUR.
To install it, open up Konsole (or terminal of your choice) and use this command:
paru -S memtest_vulkan-git
(remember to press Q to exit out of the review of AUR packages)
memtest_vulkan-git doesnāt require any special set up to run. Just run it and let the test run for at least 6 minutes. You can stop the test with Ctrl+C keys. More information about it here:
An interesting thing i just remembered, I first started out using the KDE lite version of Garuda and I donāt remember having any issues with gaming using that version and I had the same PC setup, I think the issues have only started after staring to use KDE Dragonized so that I wouldnāt have to install as many things in the initial setup.
Please do not post pictures of the terminal. They are not searchable and may be difficult to see on different devices. Please always paste terminal output directly here and format it with a code block. Thanks.
This seems to be the case, I havenāt limited it myself; according to LACT, Power usage limit is 289/332. I have a Modular 1000W PSU with 3 separate PCIe 8 pin cables going to it.
Edit: the difference between the 2 photos on settings is that the first image had auto fan control which only turned the fans on shortly before freezing, 2md image has manual 50% fan control
I this reset only took like 3-5 minutes to happen this time:
Advanced\PCI Configuration
Please go to Boot page to disable CSM
*Greyed out* Above 4G decoding : disabled
*Greyed out* Re-Size BAR Support : Disabled
*Selectable* SR-IOV Support : Disabled
I saw the power get up to 145W, so doesnāt appear to be a power limit.. I played Ark Survival Evolved for 15-25 minitues with no crashing just runnign around. IDK if I should play longer to see if it will crash.