Install the Chipset drivers

[VitaminD]

After a main drive failure last week, I spent a bit of time getting the system back to normal.

One thing I noticed is the system felt a bit weaker. Cubase projects were eating up nearly the full amount of CPU available on higher ASIO buffer settings I'm used to. Among other apps not performing the same.

Today I realized I never reinstalled the Chipset Drivers for my motherboard. I have an AMD AM4 X570 based motherboard. I installed the chipset drivers for the X570 specifically from the AMD website (and NOT through windows update). Rebooted.

It's like it's a different computer. Same project in Cubase that was taking up nearly all the CPU is now only using about a quarter of the system. Night and day difference.

Install the chipset drivers.

[legendCNCD]

Yep of course install chipset drivers Been doing it like this since I can't remember hehe:

1. Update bios
2. disable crap from bios you dont use (wifi, bluetooth, internal audio chip etc.)
3. install OS
4. install chipset drivers
5. install everything else

[Pictus]

6. Do some Windows tweaks
viewtopic.php?p=8820694#p8820694
Using all the tweaks, but MPO is enabled, less stuff running in the BG better it is.
This is what I got when using VCVRack. (AMD Ryzen 5600X + Radeon 5600 XT)

Also using AMD GPU modded driver
https://sourceforge.net/projects/radeon ... tribution/
The latest chipset driver from 12/06/2024.
https://www.techpowerup.com/download/am ... t-drivers/
They are slow to install and may take a couple of minutes.