PC Processors

[SNJA742]

Newest bios, newest drivers, fresh install, balanced windows power profile. When i load into my single player Minecraft world it freezes the PC for 15 seconds. Cant click on anything, complete freeze. When it catches up all cores are at 100% briefly. Worked fine on my 9800X3D. When i uninstall the AMD software and drivers via windows control panel and DDU, the problem goes away. Download drivers, problem comes back. Sooo yeah.

Also, on Counter Strike 2, its not fully parking all the cores. Parks them partially, and then some come back to life, over and over. To my understanding the new drivers should park all non 3dvcache cores while playing games. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[neikosr0x]

I am having very similar issues with the core parking not parking cores or just partially... i have tried reinstalling drivers over and over but nothing seems to work, in fact if I use AMD chipset drivers, some games just stutter like hell and even crash, going back to Asus websites' the stutters disappears and no more CPU related crashes... it seems to varied from mobo to mobo, but this is definitely an issue on mine, BIOS is fully updated and it happens at stock settings as well.

[poohkij]

My 9950X3D keeps freezing, but the mouse can still move. The cores are also not parking correctly

[Matt_AMD]

With the latest AMD Chipset drivers installed from the AMD website and running Minecraft, try switching to the High Performance power plan before you launch the game and let me know if that helps.

When running games, the cores on the second CCD should be mostly parked. However, if the CPU utilisation becomes high enough, it is normal and expected for one or more cores on the secondary CCD to wake up and become utilised. Based on what you both described, it sounds like this is what is happening. It is normal, so please don't worry.

To verify at least some of the cores are parked, you can launch Resource Monitor in Windows, switch to the CPU tab and under Views select small. Now scroll down to core 8-16, launch your game and once the game is at the main menu, alt tab out to resource monitor and you should briefly see the word Parked against cores 8-16. 

Please note that once you are back at Windows desktop, no cores should be parked. This is normal and expected.