August 24, 20223 yr Hi all – I've been building Unraid 'gaming servers' with GPUs passed through to VMs for a few years, but I'm having an issue with my latest build that's got me stumped. I recently finished a build with a 10700 and an RTX3060, and on the whole performance is as expected - but when playing games or other GPU-intensive applications, the frame rate will stutter every six seconds like clockwork. Everything runs fine, then no new frames get rendered for 2-3 tenths of a second, then everything runs fine again until the next stutter. You can see this clearly on the 3DMark results posted below: in the two GPU tests, the framerate drops every six seconds like clockwork. Any thoughts on what the issue might be? I've tried all my usual tricks but nothing's working. I've attached my diagnostics in case that helps. Thanks! smolboi-diagnostics-20220824-1535.zip Edited August 24, 20223 yr by stevehopkinson Misleading title
August 24, 20223 yr Author Solution Embarrassingly I've fixed it - it's was the classic MSI priority issue for passed-through devices. I ran the MSI util and the audio hardware on the GPU was unchecked; I checked it, applied and rebooted and now everything runs without a hitch (literally). Feel free to lock this thread!
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