GPU usage issue

Discussion in 'MSI AfterBurner Application Development Forum' started by ludespeedny, Sep 7, 2018.

  1. ludespeedny

    ludespeedny Guest

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    I just installed a MSI RX480 8gb and did a clean driver install with DDU. When using Afterburner the GPU usage sits at 0% constantly. I also have a RX580 in a separate pc that shows all info just fine. Any suggestions?
     
  2. Caesar

    Caesar Ancient Guru

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    Try:
    ENABLE unified GPU usage monitoring.

    Lastly:
    make sure display cable should be plugged into your discrete dGPU ports and not your integrated iGPU port!
     
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  3. ludespeedny

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    Ok, I'll try that. Oh, and OS is W10 x64, and afterburner version 4.5
     
  4. ludespeedny

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    That worked! Thanks!
     

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    I got a iGPU mem usage issue. New AB don't display the value, but iGPU usage is fine. ;)
     
  7. Andy_K

    Andy_K Master Guru

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    Please have a look at the documentation it states mobile gpu is not officially supported. If it works it's fine if not, bad luck.
     
  8. rdiameter

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    Yeah, I'm totally accepted that. Just feel a bit weird. It used to be working fine on win7.
     
  9. Andy_K

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    So maybe it is a driver issue...?
     
  10. rdiameter

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    I'm not sure. But I won't go back to win7 anymore. Win10 is OK to me now. Just like old times when I transfer winXP to win7.
     

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    GPU usage suddenly stopped working in mine setup. I had enabled unified GPU usage monitoring. Can it be related to Windows 10 October Update?
    GPU: RX470
    Driver 18.9.1
    AB: 4.6.0 b9
     
  12. Unwinder

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    Search, commented in development thread.
     
  13. Radier

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    Latest drivers 18.10.1 fixed the problem.
     
  14. Unwinder

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    Yep, confirmed. Those performance counters depended on lack of proper WDDM 2.5 support in the previous AMD driver for 1809. The latest AMD driver added it so it is fixed.
     
  15. Tiago Lopes da Costa

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    The problem is back with AMD Driver 18.11.1 and 18.11.2
     

  16. Aragorn

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    hi

    i have the problem with driver version 18.12.1.1. the GPU usage is reported always as 0.

    my gpu: rx480
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  17. Haldi

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    Seems like AMD changed something.
    Was wondering why i only saw 0% for a while. But it was after i updated AMD driver to 18.12.3
    P.S on Vega64 btw
    P.S2: After deactivating Unified GPU usage it now properly shows GPU usage :)
     
  18. Unwinder

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    Unified GPU usage relies on D3DKMT performance counters. Those performance counters absolutely require OS and display driver WDDM version to match. Last AMD drivers have WDDM version for October Update OS build. So unified GPU usage option won't work with the latest drivers if you don't have OU installed. Other performance profilers like Microsoft's own PIX rely on the same performance counters and affected by the same issue, and that's exact reason why AMD documents it as "currently unsupported" in their release notes. Summarizing, if you want to use unified GPU usage options - either use the latest drivers with October Update or downgrade drivers to version not targeted on OU WDDM if you're on older OS build.
     

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