Anyone having Ryzen issues with Borderlands 2?

[Anders]

After upgrading to my new Ryzen 3900X is constantly crashing when playing the game. Sometimes after a few hours and some times after 10-15 minutes. On a couple of ocassions I get what looks like a stack trace from Windows and sometimes it just crashes to desktop with error messages in the event logs indicating an issue with a DirectX related file.

I havent tried re-installing DirectX runtimes as suggested here and will try it now, but I was wondering if somebody else running a Ryzen CPU was having similar issues. As for what I have done so far it amoutns to formatting and installing Windows from scratch (not for this problem, but on account of going from Intel to Ryzen), reinstalling the game and clean installing the latest Nvidia drivers. Nothing helped :(

When I do get error reports this is what I see:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zXJbSM6_PE6KQS29RIB6HRqrMb4XC9i0/view?usp=sharing

[Migz - DH]

I've had a number of out of memory crashes in BL2 when using High PhysX or Always Streaming textures after upgrading my system (R7 3700X, new mobo, RAM, Win 10, new SSD) this winter; but I've associated the crashes with the HD pack, a higher resolution, and 120 framerate rather than with the processor specifically. Do you have a reason for suspecting the processor?

[dontu_worry]

No issues here. 2700x, x470, 32 GB RAM, Win10.

[Anders]

I don't really have a specific reason to suspect the CPU, but outside of the motherboard which I had to change as I previously had an X99 board all other parts are carried over from my previous build. Since a motherboard in my experience never breaks a game and I formatted and installed a fresh install of both Windows and the game the only factor left outside the CPU is changes to Steam, Nvidia's drivers, Windows or the game itself within the last 1-2 weeks.

I did notice that 3-4 threads with various issues has cropped up since I wrote mine. I found the one related to co-op particularly interesting as I have been playing through the game with a friend. Sadly the poster left far to little information there for me to see if it's the same problem or unrelated. Sauce for the CO-op issue post: https://steamcommunity.com/app/49520/discussions/0/1744517765716445615/

[Anders]

Originally posted by dontu_worry:

No issues here. 2700x, x470, 32 GB RAM, Win10.

Any chance I can post a screenshot of my settings to see if you can duplicate the issue?

[Casurin]

The CPU it self should have little to no impact.

Make sure to turn OFF texture-streaming (it can cause problems) and use GeforceExperience to change the settings (i know - but it set the ini-files to some decent values at least).

[dontu_worry]

Originally posted by Casurin:

The CPU it self should have little to no impact.

We have different generation Ryzens. Its not your cpu. Many thousands run this game perfectly on all tples of Ryzen CPUs.

[Anders]

I haven't tried the texture streaming stuff yet, but I will look into it later. As it is right now I did discover that my motherboard was trying to hit XFR speeds which the chip simply could'nt handle. It also ran extremely hot at 1.4+ volts VCore. After running a manual 4.25 GHz OC at 1.35 volts VCore all the synthetic benchmarks stopped throwing errors. Really dissappointing that a high end X570 board with the latest BIOS goes nuts on the voltages like this when you are running with their default settings enabled :(

[Migz - DH]

Well, it depends on what cooler you're using too. The air cooler that comes with new Ryzen chips can't keep them cool enough to maintain the highest clock speeds.... and sometimes even hit them.

[Anders]

Originally posted by Migz - DH:

Well, it depends on what cooler you're using too. The air cooler that comes with new Ryzen chips can't keep them cool enough to maintain the highest clock speeds.... and sometimes even hit them.

I'm running a custom watercooling loop. The computer does'nt even break a sweat over this game due to the low CPU utilization.

[dontu_worry]

Originally posted by Anders:

Originally posted by Migz - DH:

Well, it depends on what cooler you're using too. The air cooler that comes with new Ryzen chips can't keep them cool enough to maintain the highest clock speeds.... and sometimes even hit them.

I'm running a custom watercooling loop. The computer does'nt even break a sweat over this game due to the low CPU utilization.

What Ive noticed about Ryzen+: Sometimes stable isnt stable. There is such a thing as intfrequently manifesting issues. Remove all overclocks, turn XFR off, disable global Cstates, set SOC voltage to 1.1 and dram vtage to 1.35. set dram frequency to 2133. Run memtest from a bootable USB and prime95 from a live linux distro. If your system is bulletproof under these conditions, enable xmp for your ram and test again. If this is stable, boot into windows and run some games while monitoring temps, clocks and voltages.