Driftwood

Hi chaps! Has anyone else had bouncing ball on Davinci 17.2.1? (I know 17.2 is ok)

Hey fabiosun hope you are well? Hmmm, my Creative Cloud only shows Photoshop 22.0 and I dont see 22.4.1 (yes its updated again) in Betas section of CC. Are u on a special program?! Guess my Updates off the Help menu were'nt working. UPDATE: Solution kill the AdobeUpdaterPrefs.dat file in /Users/[enter username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/AAMUpdater and/or uninstall Photoshop, and then re-install.

Whats weird though is EVERYTHING is fine when booting from a SATA boot drive (a mirror of my m2 boot). But when I boot from the M2 mirror its only then I get problems. So SATA is overriding, and m2 is causing interrupt problems. We should never really run out of PCI lanes in my scenario. 64 for the CPU and 8 for the chipset TRX40 - 72. Unless its something to do with the downlink from the cpu to chipset because the chipset is populated to 12 PCIe devices...which makes getting to the bottom of this problem very difficult. Having noticed the new thread ripper pro supports 128 pcie lanes... it may well be time to upgrade!!!

Has anyone worked out their max PCIe lane bitrification resources? For example, my Asrock TRX40 Creator board has the following resources:- USB 3.2 2 x 2 in pci M2_4, the wifi adapter in M2_WIFI_1, and three m2 drives populating M2_1, M2_2, and M2_3. (not sure how many lanes they occupy)I have three SSD drives attached to SATA ports 5, 6 and 7. ( how many lanes do SATA controllers/ports in use, use?The 3970x cpu supports 64 PCIE lanes, my 4 PCIe mobo slots occupy 2 x16 lanes (32) in slot PCIE1 and PCIE3, 1 x 8 lane in Slot PCIE2 and 1 x 4 lane in slot PCIE4.So I think my question relates to which TRX40 Creator lanes is shared with SATA/m2/PCIE slots? Am I right in saying that each SATA SSD will use 4 PCIE lanes? Note: I'm using three SSD SATAs (Proxmox, Mac OS clone from m2, Windows boot). I'm using three m2s (Mac OS boot 2tb MP600, another MP600 m2 for scratch disk, a Sabrent 8TB m2 for sample libraries and video raw/h264 originals) How many lanes do the WIFI and USB 3.2 M2 slots consume?Which SATA ports clash with which PCIE Lane M2 ports?What happens if Im out of resources - is it supposed to auto manage shared resources (cuz it doesnt do it properly with certain software)?Is there a map anywhere detailing shared lanes resources for TRX40 with similar board setup? Just trying to get to the bottom as to why certain PCIe devices work under SATA boot, but NOT m2 boot! I outlined in an earlier post that if I boot from the m2 Mac OS, OBS and the Decklink cards show black (no) video. Steam and games like CSGO dont work. If I boot the mirrored Mac OS copy from an SSD drive, both the above software work fine - and I see video coming in from the SDI inputs on the Decklink card. So somewhere there is a clash of PCIE resources when booting from the m2 drive. When I boot from the SSD Mac OS mirror, I see no problems writing data to any of the m2 drives! This is all rather perplexing. Any tips or experience in this matter would be appreciated. UPDATE: Asrock tell me there is no sharing of PCIe lane resources on the Asrock Creator unlike other AM4 or other mobos. Whilst the cpu takes care of the main PCIe slots (2 x 16, 2 x8) plus the m2_1 and M2_2 drives 2 x 4 pcie lanes, there is a x8 bus connector going to the TRX40 chipset which handles the third M.2 Slot_3 / Gen4 using x4 (with SATA Type)* * maybe there is my clash!? Anyone know what that means? The TRX40 chipset x8 bus also handles the Aquantia net card which takes x 2 PCIe lanes, and the RTL8125 (which has been replaced with a Broadcom) and the WIFI CARD take x1 PCIE lane each. Plus, the TRX40 chipset handles the ASM3242 USB 3.2 Gen2x2 Single type C ( rear port ) which uses x4 lane. What I cant get my head around is that this x8 lane bus connector to the chipset is able to handle upto x12 lanes!? A 3970X CPU handles 64 PCIe Lanes therefore;- CPU PCIE lane layout PCIE lane slot 1 Radeon VII = x 16 PCIe Lanes PCIE lane slot 2 Decklink 8K Pro SDI Input Video card = x 8 PCIe Lanes PCIE lane slot 3 2nd Radeon VII GPU = x 16 PCIe Lanes PCIE lane slot 4 Firewire card (a x4 card) occupying the x 8 slot = x8? or x4? PCIe Lanes 1st M.2 Slot / Gen4 MP600 m2 drive = x4 PCIe Lanes 2nd M.2 Slot / Gen4 - another MP600 m2 drive = x4 PCIe Lanes CPU to AMD TRX40 Chipset PCIE Gen4 BUS Lane = x 8 PCIe lanes Total = 64 PCIE Lanes AMD TRX40 Chipset PCIE layout (allegedly x8 PCIe lanes taken from the cpu total) 3rd M.2 Slot / Gen4 (with SATA Type) - Sabrent Rocket 8TB m2 = x4 PCIe Lanes ASM3242 - Rear side USB 3.2 2x2 Type C PCIe Gen3 = x 4 PCIe lanes Mini PCIe slot - Acquantia AQC107 = x 2 PCIe Lanes Mini PCIe slot - RTL8125 = x 1 PCIe Lanes Mini PCIe slot - M.2 WiFi - Intel AX200 / replaced with Broadcom = x 1 PCIe Lanes Total = 12 PCIe Lanes As you can see the x8 PCIE lane CPU to TRX40 chipset bus only has x8 lanes So why is there 12 PCIe lanes coming off it? Does anyone know that what they really mean by the 3rd M.2 Slot / Gen4 saying "with SATA Type" means you can plug an M.2 SATA (aka M+B key) into an M.2 NVMe (M key) or that it means it disables a SATA port when you use the M.2 slot?

Patches dont work yet so I wouldnt bother.

An interesting discovery: Whilst attempting to get OBS broadcasting software working with Baremetal and Decklink x8 speed PCIE card. If you run the above under Bare Metal and booting from a m2 boot OS and your TRX40 Motherboard is fully populated with PCIE-E cards as well as shared NVME m2 drives there is a strong possibility that you will experience crashes and corruption or your PCIE card will not work correctly due to shared memory space switching. I had been using an m2 Catalina boot drive which I discovered shared the same mem space as the x8 Decklink card. ie OBS or BMD Desktop Video Express wouldn't work correctly - no SDI inputs were showing video from cameras Id attached. Sometimes it would simply freeze. As you know, I have 2 x AMD Radeon VIIs in my machine (thats two x16 pcie slots), a Fireface 800 on a Firewire card (using x4 PCIE lane but occupying x8 in BIOS) plus the Decklink 8K Pro (which requires a x8 PCIE). Add that to the shared m2 slots and you can see theres going to be corruption or problems like above when trying to get the cameras to show in OBS or write to hard drive. Indeed, I experienced partition errors whilst trying to use the m2 boot with all those PCIes. However, if I booted to a SATA boot drive copy of my Catalina OS the Decklink card was fine - everything worked and never crashed. I could still write back to the m2 drives but the fact that I was using a SATA boot (that wasnt shared on the PCIe lanes) meant I had no mem / PCIE crashes or freezes. So, please remember to bare in mind if you are fully using all m2 slots, and all PCIE lanes (inc Thunderbolt) GPUs, sound cards etc... that you may experience problems on your boot drive or other memory clashes/freezes. So in my case, now I only use a SATA boot drive for the OS and I do all my speed writing (encoding/drive intensive stuff) to m2 drives which are NOT sharing memory with PCIe lanes. Lesson learned. Update: Also, some programs (and games like Steam CS:Go) work in BM from a SATA drive but NOT from a m2 boot drive! * With Proxmox it kinda works, but I was getting the occasional glitch using Decklink and all pass thru PCIes. Sometimes the Decklink would just 'lose' camera inputs or the device just went missing. So for me Bare Metal works best on a SATA boot. End of.

For those using Catalina still. 10.15.7 (19H512) update works without problem.

re: Resize BAR. Apparently if you switch off Above 4G, it works under OSX in Proxmox because Linux/KVM is supported. Though I am yet to test. Pavo tells me he has experienced a 10% performance increase.

TRX40 Creator can enable resizable BAR with BIOS P1.74. Both RX6000 series and Radeon VII can turn on “Large memory range” normally. Linux and Windows currently work, Mac OSX currently doesn't support this feature but maybe in a future update/Opencore hack?! 6800XT & RADEON VII BAR test results in Windows: I am awaiting info from Asrock support regarding how MMIO will be affected. In the meantime, Asrock said, "In the games we tested, it seem that resizable BAR had a less affect to performance".

VRAm and the resizable BAR issues. Not much info regarding Mac hacks but MMIO will need analysing after setting it on with new BIOS. https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/resizeable-bar-support-issues.435389/page-4 What is Resizable BAR? https://hardwaresfera.com/en/articulos/resizable-bar/ AMD Radeon VII work?

One thing I failed to mention, I use an Editors Keys keyboard and perform sleep and shutdown via its power on/off key. Sleep works for me in BS and latest Cat. For shutdown/restart try disabling the LED controller using usb mapping,

big sur stable 3-7.BIN.zip I think this is the last bios I saved for my Asrock TRX40 Creator. Ill check on reboot later to see if anything has changed.

csm disabled/Above 4g enabled m.2ncard swapped for a Broadcom one. its on the proxmox thread somewhere. a few of us have the same swap out.

Yeah but you have to scale. Here's what its like in 8K (good for Photo/video editing though!)

Big Sur Sleep Video Catalina Sleep Working @Rox67er & other Asrock board owners: My Asrock Creator EFI for both BS & Cat (with two variants of config (ie one with full Algrey patches called 'config1.plist', the other 'Config2.plist' with the only patches we need thanks to *fabiosun testing) - please update and enter with your own platform info and rename your chosen configs.plist to config.plist). * Please note I swapped out the motherboard's wifi/BT for a Broadcom 100% Apple supported version board. However, I dont much use wifi/BT so test away! Driftwood Cat BS with 2 variant configs EFI.zip

All good on the update.

No.

Are you getting reliable audio sync at above 48K (ie 96, 192)?

My current Black Magic Raw Result with Radeon VIIs.

This is my worry. I use predominantly the DP ports. Dont really want to use the HDMI unless forced. Editing in 4K/8K monitors.

Hopefully this will work on Radeon VIIs under Proxmox.

Interesting that AMD are about to release an undervolting tool for Ryzen 5000 series. Apparently, improving performance by 10%. New AGESA... wondering if we will enjoy such new ideas in a BIOS update? Due out in early December and known as Curve Optimization, the new tool is designed to enable lower CPU voltages. That in turns means less heat and lower power consumption and, in some circumstances, higher clock speeds. The tool will require a BIOS revision for 400 and 500-series AMD motherboard chipsets including the AGESA 1180 update https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/amd-undervolting-tool-boosts-ryzen-5000/ Also Asrock Creator owners are still on AMD AGESA 1.0.0.3 patch C and AMD CastlePeakPI-SP3r3-1.0.0.4 Are any of you other mobo owners beyond that?

Thats an incredible score.

Hmmm... thought Id already updated this... unless Im mistaken. ah well 10.15.7 (19H105) it now is on Catalina. Only one reboot for this update.

Wanna see your Big Sur Data drive from within Catalina? The only way is to open Disk Utility, right click on the drive, Show in Finder and Viola! It opens.