{"id":6989,"date":"2019-05-23T13:46:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=6989"},"modified":"2019-05-23T21:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T01:58:05","slug":"amd-you-nearly-fucked-my-computer-up-re-issue-fixing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2019\/05\/23\/amd-you-nearly-fucked-my-computer-up-re-issue-fixing\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD, you nearly fucked my computer up (RE: Issue fixing)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Started last night in a desperate attempt to fix an unending enemy that keeps fucking with me and my VR experience (and is currently unknown if it’s fixed.. or can be<\/em> fixed), to a desperate attempt of fixing a thing Zagro did to update my chipset drivers.
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\nWas with friends yesterday (the same world I was in when Zagro showed up). He showed up again when I was with Nigh, came up to me and started asking a very strange question of my sona’s primary and secondary colors. Thought this was a sign he was actually considering of doing what I asked him a few weeks ago (to do what Erodac did for my sona), but it was only because he’s partially colorblind and didn’t really recognize me.
\nHe then told me to use TeamViewer for him to help me with the issue with my VR
\nheadset. Myself and a few others told him about Parsec and how it’s safer, but Zagro with a quite legitimate fear that someone would screw him over, I told him I would get everything set up (after Nigh left to go do something).
\nLeft VRChat and joined Zagro in a DM to do the thing. First I told him something I noticed after the issue happening (that one of the HID’s(Human Interface Devices.. aka keyboard mouse etc) showing a caution symbol on it. So we tried to update BIOS, which was ‘fun’. He told me to use a USB stick to burn the update onto it, so I did, then went into BIOS using my phone for him to see what I’m doing.
\nGoing into ‘flash mode’, it refused to detect the stick (yet detected my external drive). So I moved the files over to it, and was able to install the update successfully.<\/p>\n

After that, he felt I should also update the chipset drivers. Except the way to do it, was extremely weird; it wanted me to update my graphics card drivers.
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\nZagro was confused about this too, but with no other (clear) option to only update the chipset drivers, he decided to go with it. Everything seemed<\/em> OK with the installation, until it got done and I noticed the icons were still messed up (even though it claimed the installation was completed). In other words, the icons typically on my secondary
\nmonitor, get ‘pushed’ back into place (after updating the drivers).. instead, the secondary was mirroring the primary. After having to argue with Zagro that I know wtf I’m talking about, he felt TeamViewer could be causing it. Some time later, the monitors re-adjusted themselves automatically. Odd.
\nAfter that, Zagro (and I don’t know how in the hell he didn’t notice this sooner), claimed the BIOS update finally showed the correct USB port names. Could had sworn it was showing them with the old version, but he swears up and down they weren’t showing up for him. Huh.. whatever. And since he felt doubt, he started adjusting the ports to what he said he would do.
\n–
\nThen we went in VRChat. Some of my friends are playing Never Have I Ever (with others randomly chatting). Everything seemed OK, then the sudden jerk-disconnect thing happened again. Ran up to Zagro and said “it tried happening again!” But he said “I felt it too”.. wait what<\/span>?! You<\/em> just had it?? He doubles down on saying it’s when people join and leave or change avatars. Said “why doesn’t it happen all the time then?” He said it depends on the avatar. Basically, to think of it as lag.
\nSo, could the issues I’m having, be related to VRChat? He also reminded me that my graphics card is being used fully, and could hiccup at times. But that would had been it for the night.
\nWent to bed a bit later than I usually do (as Nigh joined the world and I wanted him to have company)… but not before DJ got a picture of me and Nigh;
\n
\nWas trying to kiss him and.. well, I missed. \ud83d\ude1b I don’t often know where my snout
\nis (there’s no visual way to see, other than a mirror and weeks of training of knowing where it is).<\/p>\n

Anyway.. when getting ready to go to bed, I noticed Discord glitching out strangely (graphically), as if my graphics card was still hot (yet it was idling at 35*C). But what really was freaking me out was apparently there’s now an issue with my keyboard (letters are missing).
\nBut I went to bed.
\n———-
\nToday came, booted up and still saw the strange glitching. Okay, I think something bad happened from trying to install those ‘chipset’ drivers. Because this looks slightly similar to the graphical glitches I had many years ago (before getting the 750Ti). And all of those issues were from not doing a clean install of the drivers.. yet the thing is, I did<\/em> do a clean install with this! So what the HELL?!
\nTried using the latest drivers, and it claimed I had the latest installed. I tried to do a clean uninstall, and claimed it couldn’t find any drivers. WTF?! My other option was to download and install the drivers.. I already have downloaded. And I didn’t have a clean install option with this.
\nDid some searching and found this ‘ATI Cleanup Utility’<\/a>, designed to clean out corrupted drivers. It’ll even go into Safe Mode to do it, and create a restore point if something goes wrong. Seeing how this was my best option to avoid possible damage to the graphics
\ncard, I used it and it worked.. not sure how well, but afterwards I installed the latest drivers and haven’t seen the graphics glitches since.
\nComputer’s been behaving better too, namely launching MR Portal. No longer a black screen when initializing it, so that’s good.<\/p>\n

.
\nBefore I (hopefully) close this post, a friend asked me why I mostly play VRChat. Told him how I stick with one game ’till I get bored enough, then said how I “want to get into Beat Saber” but saying how it got updated and broke everything. DJ heard this and said he knows of a working mod manager, then sent me three links to get started (each one is its own mod manager). So, I should do this and get myself back into that game. This way I can see if the issue happens in other VR games.<\/p>\n

EDIT: Played Beat Saber for just over a half an hour. My arms feel like noodles and I was sweating hard, but the game (and my computer) were pretty stable. Only one time did it seem it was going to disconnect me (which was after accepting the health warning) and loading all the songs downloaded, and it was smooth as butter after that.
\nThis proves the disconnecting and the weird behavior is because of VRChat, also proving Zagro was right; certain avatars loading in and out, having a chance of causing an ‘overload’ in graphics processing.
\nIt means, the game (at times) is asking too much from the GPU. So now that I know, this is something I’m just going to have to deal with until I manage to start saving again and try to get a faster graphics card that hopefully won’t do it. Zagro though says there are a few things I could do to mitigate the issue from happening as frequently (probably lowering the resolution in both lenses to make it look like shit).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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