System requirements and preparation
System requirements and preparation
I have paid due attention to the system requirements and the operations a user has to do before working with CTR. Now the user does not need to have Ryzen Master installed, you do not need to have any drivers installed, and you do not even need to clean the Windows log to get the correct CPPC tags. The only thing you need is to have Windows 10 x64 with the latest update, download Cinebench R20, unzip it into the CB20 folder and run it once to accept the license agreement. That will be all. Regarding the recommended settings, the list is as follows:
- PBO/PBO2 - Auto mode only.
- AGESA 1.2.0.0 and newer only for Zen 3 and APU Renoir processors. For Zen 2, it does not matter.
- Core voltage / CPU voltage - Auto only. Offset is also not allowed.
- CPU multiplier - Auto only.
- Performance Enhancer - Disabled only.
- CPU Virtualization - not important.
- CPPC - Enabled.
- CPPC Preferred Cores - Enabled.
- Global C-State - Enabled.
- Power Profile - irrelevant.
All other settings that are not listed here are irrelevant. I also want to remind you that you must make sure that your RAM is absolutely stable before you do any experiments with CTR. Otherwise, you will get abnormal results.
List of currently supported processors:
- Zen 3: Ryzen 9 5950X, Ryzen 9 5900X, Ryzen 7 5800X, Ryzen 5 5600X
- Zen 2: Threadripper 3970X, Threadripper 3960X, Ryzen 9 3950X, Ryzen 9 3900X, Ryzen 9 3900XT, Ryzen 9 3900, Ryzen 7 3800X, Ryzen 7 3800X, Ryzen 7 3700X, Ryzen 5 3600XT , Ryzen 5 3600X, Ryzen 5 3600, Ryzen 5 3500X, Ryzen 5 3500, Ryzen 3 3300X, Ryzen 3 3100
- APU: Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G, Ryzen 7 PRO 4650G, Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G
What could go wrong?
- Windows Defender can block the CTR because Microsoft has no information about the CTR. Simply add the application to exceptions.
- Anticheat can block the inpoutx64.dll library, which is used for monitoring. To solve this problem, you need to stop the anti-cheat service, even if the anti-cheat itself is disabled.
