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Destiny 2 AMD Ryzen 3000 Issues solved with chipset driver update
Bungie’s Destiny 2 doesn’t currently work with on AMD’s latest CPU. It’s was not clear why this is currently the case. The problem cropped up a few days ago when Ryzen 3000 early upgraders found they couldn’t run the game. A week ago, Redditor Trinsikk posted. AMD now has a solve available.
AMD has issued a statement regarding a fix for the continued compatibility problems Ryzen 3000 users have been dealing with:
"AMD has identified the root cause and implemented a BIOS fix for an issue impacting the ability to run certain Linux distributions and Destiny 2 on Ryzen 3000 processors. We have distributed an updated BIOS to our motherboard partners, and we expect consumers to have access to the new BIOS over the coming days."
Robert Hallock, the company's technical marketing head for processors, posted this (incl fix):
Concerning Destiny 2, this is indeed something we caught after launch. Plain and simple: I'm sorry. It is not a title that is in our standard test suite, as it's difficult to reliably benchmark. Going back to the topic of Destiny 2, I'm hoping you can help me test a workaround driver that should get you into the game. This is a beta chipset driver, and it may give you an installer warning or two if you're upgrading an existing driver, but I believe this should work around the D2 launch issue.
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#5695080 Posted on: 07/29/2019 02:51 PM
Robert said this game isn't in their testing suite because its highly difficult to get any performance numbers from it.
Also they probably weren't expecting their lack of core entropy to bite them in the ass this way (far as i know Zen2's low power state is much like how the cpu goes to sleep in S3 standby)
Robert said this game isn't in their testing suite because its highly difficult to get any performance numbers from it.
Also they probably weren't expecting their lack of core entropy to bite them in the ass this way (far as i know Zen2's low power state is much like how the cpu goes to sleep in S3 standby)
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#5695086 Posted on: 07/29/2019 03:01 PM
Testing all popular games is nearly impossible.
I bet there are test suites for every single x86 instruction and combination of them and parallel executions of them.
All in all testing games on a cpu is not what I would expect.
Is weird to me that none of their test caught that the instruction wasn't working in a particular power state, or that the core is not waken up on that instruction, but this is not something you find out running a bunch or a ton of games.
Totally unacceptable really. Does AMD not test popular games with their CPUs? This is obviously on their end, not the developers.
Testing all popular games is nearly impossible.
I bet there are test suites for every single x86 instruction and combination of them and parallel executions of them.
All in all testing games on a cpu is not what I would expect.
Is weird to me that none of their test caught that the instruction wasn't working in a particular power state, or that the core is not waken up on that instruction, but this is not something you find out running a bunch or a ton of games.
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#5695089 Posted on: 07/29/2019 03:10 PM
Raven Ridge incorporates an enhanced power gating scheme to lower the average power consumption of the chip. Upon exiting P-State, the CPU enters the CC6 Idle State. When all the CPU cores enter CC6, the CPUOFF state is asserted and the shared L3 cache power is lowered. Likewise, when the GPU enters idle state, up to 95% of the GPU is power gated. A GPUOFF state further power down the GPU uncore. When both CPUOFF and GPUOFF states are asserted, the system VDD regulator is switched off.
I'm surprised it wasn't caught on Raven Ridge first, since it also implemented CC6 and CPUOFF.
Is weird to me that none of their test caught that the instruction wasn't working in a particular power state, or that the core is not waken up on that instruction, but this is not something you find out running a bunch or a ton of games.
Raven Ridge incorporates an enhanced power gating scheme to lower the average power consumption of the chip. Upon exiting P-State, the CPU enters the CC6 Idle State. When all the CPU cores enter CC6, the CPUOFF state is asserted and the shared L3 cache power is lowered. Likewise, when the GPU enters idle state, up to 95% of the GPU is power gated. A GPUOFF state further power down the GPU uncore. When both CPUOFF and GPUOFF states are asserted, the system VDD regulator is switched off.
I'm surprised it wasn't caught on Raven Ridge first, since it also implemented CC6 and CPUOFF.
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#5695097 Posted on: 07/29/2019 03:36 PM
The fault is on their end, though, it's unrealistic for them to test every popular game. And even then, Destiny 2 isn't that popular.
The more confusing issue is how they somehow didn't notice booting issues with Linux. I understand the Ryzen series isn't really all that interested in the Linux desktop, but, if Zen2 were released on Epyc first, that would have been a much bigger issue. On the other hand, they also probably would've noticed the problem long before launch day if they released Epyc first.
Totally unacceptable really. Does AMD not test popular games with their CPUs? This is obviously on their end, not the developers.
The fault is on their end, though, it's unrealistic for them to test every popular game. And even then, Destiny 2 isn't that popular.
The more confusing issue is how they somehow didn't notice booting issues with Linux. I understand the Ryzen series isn't really all that interested in the Linux desktop, but, if Zen2 were released on Epyc first, that would have been a much bigger issue. On the other hand, they also probably would've noticed the problem long before launch day if they released Epyc first.
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Totally unacceptable really. Does AMD not test popular games with their CPUs? This is obviously on their end, not the developers.