I’ve seen a ton of people posting about “the gpu bug” and last night when I was playing Shredders I noticed the odd stutter. Nothing game breaking but I remember thinking “hmm, I thought this game would run more than the fps I’m getting”. Turns out it doesn’t, but still.
So I get up the performance overlay and I see my gpu constantly jumping between 200-1040mhz and remember it being mentioned by many on here.
Like I said, I’ve not encountered any occasions of games being unplayable (yet) but can someone please explain in simple terms what is actually happening with this bug?
TIA
I think you just have to wait a couple of days for a fix
Optimistic.
Very optimistic considering this issue was in main channel for months and THEY STILL released 3.5 to mainstream lol
It’s not entirely clear whether the deck fluctuating between 200mhz and 1040mhz is in itself an issue. I get this in The Ascent but it performs absolutely fine but in Cyberpunk 2077 and The Surge 2 the frame times are all over the place resulting in a stuttery not very playable experience.
I do NOT get this issue on my LCD deck but I do on the OLED. Having said that I don’t think it’s related to the OLED specifically because I have read reports of the LCD deck having this issue too.
On the benchmark in Cyberpunk I lock the FPS within steam to 60hz/30fps (LCD) and noticed the maximum frame rate is as expected 30fps and the minimum is not much below that 28 or something. On the OLED even though it’s locked to 90hz/30fps the result is too an AVERAGE of 30fps but the maximum frame rate is 88fps and the minimum is 15fps. That to me explains the stuttery performance but I don’t know how to fix it. I’ve tried every possible combination of settings and it’s always the same stuttery experience.
I’ve noticed significant decrease on emulation performance due to this bug. Talking over 40% less frames in certain games
Because SD GPU fluctuates between specific MHz values people sometimes think that there’s a bug, when there’s none.
However, if your fps suddenly dropped to a single digit number/or even your SD completely froze after a few seconds AND your gpu is stuck at 200MHz - welcome to the club, buddy.
ELI5 version:
Saying your deck is running at 200MHz/1040MHz clocks is like saying your vehicle has 4 wheels. If you try to look at a busy street you’ll most likely see a vehicle with 4 wheels. Sometimes there will be a 2 wheel vehicle, and sometimes there will even be a 3 wheel one or an 18 wheel one. But most of the time you’ll see 4 wheels.
Person A had a car problem, their car was making weird noises when accelerating. They posted online, “My car is making weird noises when accelerating, I noticed that my car has 4 wheels”.
Person B also had a car problem, their car headlights were not working. They posted online, “My car’s headlights are not working, my car also has 4 wheels”.
Person C’s car AC is not working. They post online “My car has the 4 wheel problem too”
Person D’s car has no problem. They post online “I also noticed that my car has 4 wheels”.
The “4 wheels problems” became popular enough that any new person that ran into a issue self diagnosed as having the “4 wheels” problem too. And people with no issues started noticing that their car also had 4 wheels and started worrying they might have a defective car.
In reality the “4 wheels problem” is just a lot of different problems, all unfortunately categorized under the same label. So if you aren’t running into any issues don’t worry, it is okay to have a car with 4 wheels. And if you do run into problems, and there have been real issues with 3.5.X, providing an explanation longer than “I have the 4 wheels” problem will be useful in getting the issue resolved.
P.S. This is a big oversimplification of the situation and the analogy isn’t perfect. But I think it conveys the idea of what is going on properly.
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