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yea, benchmark apps max'ing the GPU definitely threw a curveball into things. oh well. Appreciate all the help, thanks again!

EUREKA! IT WORKS! PCIe Performance Mode was disabled in Bios. Enabled it, booted up the original VM. Golf Sim app 60fps with vsync on Lite graphics mode. CPU/GPU usage ~26%/~29% respectively! Disabling vsync, jumps to ~75fps. This is fantastic! Thank you so much @ghost82 for all the help!

Thanks, will give that a try today. I almost all but gave up. Ordered an SSD to dual boot to bare metal windows on this server box to test that way 😔

So I tried all 4 suggestions. Reinstalled Windows even to start fresh. Followed performance tweaks on the Unraid Wiki. If anything, it's worse. Windows settings are the same for high performance power management, etc. VM settings should be the same as well except for the 4 items suggested to try. I can near max out the GPU in the kombustor benchmark app and MSI Afterburner though. XML of the new test VM attached. vmv2.txt

Yea I agree. just noticed the edits, I'll give them a try and report back. Really appreciate all the help!

Worth noting, HWiNFO app shows GPU Performance Limiters.... Utilization is yes. So is it the app just not making full use of the GPU? but if that's the case, on another setup non-VM, laptop setup with a 1050ti, the app makes full use of the GPU. I'll try q35 machine type. Can you explain further item #2? Any workaround if there are application limitations if it doesn't like to be run in a VM, or am I just SOL? edit - I used the kombustor benchmark app within MSI afterburner, and it's able to max out the GPU. So I guess that rules out VM config/setting that is limiting the GPU usage, and it's all pointing at the golf sim app.

Yea I was thinking that too regarding the dummy plug probably not changing anything. I did set all the usual windows settings to max out performance and such. I double checked GPU acceleration as you suggested and did make a small discovery where I added the exe for the 'launcher' of the GSPro sim application. Diving deeper the launcher just seems to perform update checks and eventually launches a different exe for the actual app so I added that exe for max GPU performance. fingers crossed I launch the app to test, but still the same results. Someone on the GSPro discord did test on a 1050ti laptop and they get higher FPS than I do as the GPU usage is much higher. Which is what I would expect, higher GPU usage to get higher FPS, instead of hovering around 15% GPU usage, just to get ~30fps like it's doing for me. Not sure what else to check. My limited unraid/VM knowledge, I'm assuming it's a VM config/setting as the hardware should be more than capable. Just not sure why the GPU is being 'limited' with this app.

thanks! I came across this possible solution lastnight. I connected my tv to the gpu. It’s connected via hdmi but needed a mini hdmi to female hdmi adapter as the gpu had mini hdmi. Didn’t make a difference but will try again today. I did order a dummy plug to see if it does anything.

Hi, all out of thoughts as to why this is happening. Setup a Win10 VM with a GTX970 passthrough to play GSPro, golf simulator software. GSPro is graphics intense and GTX970 is on the low end of GPU recommendations but figured I'd give it a try. GSPro has various graphics level settings (Lite, Low, Medium, High, Very High, Ultra). My projector is low resolution so I'm just trying all this on Lite settings at 1024x768. When I play, I get around 30fps (28-32) on the test benchmark course and it stutters at times. GPU usage NEVER goes above 15%. Nothing looks to be bottleneck'd on the CPU side, and I'm passing 16gb ram to the GPU. Whatever I do, I can't get GPU usage to go higher on this app unless I increase graphics settings but GPU usage doesn't go up much, and fps just goes down since it's rendering more. Using MSI Afterburner and it's built in kombustor benchmarking tool, I'm able to max out the GPU usage. I've even OC'd the GPU some, but it makes no difference in the golf sim sw. OC'ing the GPU, I get a few extra FPS in the Kombustor benchmark tool. I'm on a HP Z420 unraid setup with a E5-2680 v2 CPU. I previously had a 2630v2 but upgraded to see if it was a CPU bottleneck, but it made no difference. To add, this is a headless setup and I’m using Moonlight to connect and stream video. I've done all the usual to max out performance settings in the Windows VM. I've followed spaceinvaderone's gaming vm setup. Anyone have any thoughts? VM XML is attached. Thanks in advance! win10xml.txt

thanks. I removed the drive from the array and it's currently not assigned. I'll update and shut down and check cables. I'm due to clean the PC so maybe dust is causing issues. will try all this and report back. thanks!

333 day uptime! should I just go ahead and update/reboot first?

Hi everyone, started getting array fail messages on my parity drive. When in the GUI, it showed an X next to it as well. Attempts to run a SMART check it never seems to finish. Diagnostics attached, drive salvageable or is it completely toast? Thanks in advance!hpnas-diagnostics-20220703-1036.zip

Hi Everyone, Recently setup Pihole on a raspberry pi and noticed my unraid server is tallying thousands of dns queries. It is querying for my router's dns name tens of thousands of times a day. I have various docker containers like plex so I'm not sure if it's a docker that's performing these queries or if it's Unraid itself. can someone point me in the right direction as to how to narrow this down? The name it queries is both 'edgerouter' and 'edgerouter.home', which is the name of my router (edgerouter), and the name of my network domain (home). Anonymized diagnostics is attached. Thanks, Rob hpnas-diagnostics-20200406-1323.zip

Worked for me on 6.7.0rc4. thanks!

man, I'm new to unRaid as well. Tonight I followed the instructions to shrink my away to remove a drive, when I booted back up, my dockers didn't start and user shares were missing. Was going crazy with troubleshooting, rebooting, etc. Reviewed logs and searched the same error and found this thread. Removed the netstat plugin, rebooted, and all is well again. phew! signed up for an account to post this. great community, thanks for all the help!