PC Processors

[pstone]

So I'm wondering if there's some way in the bios of the MSI TRX40 PRO WiFi mobo and within W10/Enterprise to tell the processor to kindly use 100% (or at least attempt to) of all it's LPs. My issue is this:

I'm running Camtasia 2021 on both a 2 year old ASUS ROG i7-8750H 2.2GHZ and it's built in RTX 2070 vs my 3970X 3.7GHZ with a RTX 3080.

The i7 using all it's 6c/12LPs during a render burns away at 100%

The 3970X at 32c/64LPs rendering the exact same thing ends up only using around 20% and ends up being quite a bit slower on the render.
If I drop the 3970X to 8c/16LPs it uses a little more power and barely eeks out the i7
If I drop the 3970X to match as 6c/12LPs, it runs about 6% faster but still doesn't max out it's processors - maybe 70%-95%.
If I set the 3970X to 16c/32LPs, it's slower then the i7 again.

That said, what's preventing the 32c/64LP setting to fail in going over 20%? Do I need to OC the machine to accomplish this? Anyone familiar with the general settings for this, especially on this MoBo?

Thanks!

[elstaci]

Can't really help you but found his thread that Users are complaining about how slow Camtasia 2021 is. This User in the thread mentioned some tips on how to make it go faster: https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360078551992-Incredibly-Slow-editing-Camtasia...

As to the processor, in the past another User was also using a Threadripper to render and found out he needed to disable half the cores to run the program using Ryzen Master. It seemed like the program wasn't fully compatible with a 32 Core processor running on all cores.

If you were aware of all of the above then I apologize for repeating what you already are aware of.

NOTE: In Ryzen Master you can change the parameters (Overclock etc) of the Processors which might help your issue: https://www.amd.com/en/support/cpu/amd-ryzen-processors/amd-ryzen-threadripper-processors/amd-ryzen-...

Not sure if compatible with Windows Enterprise OS or not.

[elstaci]

Here is another thread about Camtasia 2021slowness from the same Camtasia forum in my previous reply: https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360077955752-Camtasia-2021-Windows-SLOW

So problem may not be with the processor but the program itself that is sluggish.

[pstone]

Thanks for those and yes, I was aware of all of those. I do feel it is a camtasia issue but one of their programmers have made their render engine too 'general' and so yes, it fails to become processor dependent. I dropped my cores to match my laptop and only then does the threadripper become actually a little faster finally but in the end, I suspect the Camtasia engineers need to fix this.

I was just making sure there's not a way to accomplish the apparent governer of all the processors from BIOS - I'll look at the OC solution again as that one might just be a brute force solution at the expense of machine life and I'm trying to avoid that.

[elstaci]

I don't understand about the relationship between your laptop and your Desktop PC?

Also make sure you have the latest BIOS installed for your Motherboard.

Here is Razor on how to correctly connect its eGPU to your computer: https://mysupport.razer.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3937/~/how-to-fix-the-razer-core-if-the-gpu-is-n...

Just a troubleshooting tip, if you connect your eGPU with the RX6700 to another computer with regular Windows 10 is it recognized? 

My thinking is maybe Windows Enterprise may not be compatible with eGPU setups.

NOTE: I realize that Windows Enterprise is very similar to Windows 10 except it has more security and other extra features and so forth. Possibly one of those features is preventing the eGPU from being recognized or needs to be correctly configured in Enterprise.

[pstone]

The relationship is the laptop is a slower machine, slower video card and 2+ years old compared to the 3970X should be running rings around it along with the 3080GTX.

Latest bios is installed.

Interesting about the eGPU -the GPU is listed in W10e - GPU0 - RTX 3080... so it's there and Camtasia sees it.

[pstone · Accepted solution]

So chatted with Techsmith tech support and it was confirmed that Camtasia will only go as far as to use a 6c/12p configuration so anything more than that will not be optimized. My request for the 32c/64p was put in and maybe will get done in an update... so there's that - but yeah.... bummer...