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For a little over a month now, when playing videos on firefox, VLC, or any other application, I get infrequent stutters. This is with or without hardware accelleration. It's as if the video pauses briefly. If multiple videos are playing, even across different applications, each of them will be effected at the same time.

System:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
GPU: AMD AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
Driver Version: Mesa 23.2.1-arch1.2
Memory: 4x G.Skill Ripjaws S5 16 GB DDR5-5600 CL28
Motherboard: PRIME X670E-PRO WIFI
Kernel/OS: 6.6.4-arch1-1
DE: Gnome-Wayland 45.2
Audio Server: Pipewire
Audio Session Manager: Wireplumber

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[–] pendulous 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I had this happen with multiple programs for a while, and I found out that my computer had changed the cpu governor from "perfomance" to "power save"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My cpupower profile was set to power save. I just switched it to performance and will give it some time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Issue still occured

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This was exactly what caused the problem for me too.

[–] bazsy 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There were issues with TPM so that might affect the older bios versions. You could try disabling it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Try only having one video open at once. And reduce the resolution (make the window smaller)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It happens with only a single video or multiple. When there's multiple it happens to all at once

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you know what changed a month ago. It sounds like maybe a hardware issue or a bad update.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I had moved to a new house but my setup is the same as it was prior. I run updates regularly but I'm pretty sure the issue started after moving and before updating

[–] just_another_person 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There are still a number of clock sync issues with the Zen4 chips. I've had issues on 6.4/5/6 with similar sounding audio/video that I've been able to somewhat mitigate by getting my amd_pstate settings to stop competing with other power tuning tools. Turn off EVERYTHING you have running dealing with cpufreq management, and just let the kernel amd_pstate do it's thing. No TLP, no desktop tuning tools, just the upstate.

Also, double check that your memory frequencies aren't bouncing all over the place, and consider under locking in the BIOS to exactly match the channel freq for CPU/mem.

See if that helps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I believe the only power tuning I had was cpupower. I just stopped it and will give it some time. Do you know a tool that'll graph out my memory frequency? My memory seems pretty stable at 4800 MHz but I'll watch it with "watch lshw -short -C memory"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Issue still occured. Didn't see my memory fluctuating either