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What you refer is an Windows 7 32-bit driver, and in my case, I use Windows 10 64-bit. I had already using the latest firmware and driver, provided by LSI.
One more problem. I unplug the card, use the internal SATA, still failed.
I am trying to boot Windows 20H2 64bit install and it just reboots automatically.
As soon as I disconnect the drives it boots OK. But I want to install system on RAID10 connected via this controller.
I added newest Broadcom drivers to the install image and this does not change anything.
It seemed fine, but after installing the drives and configuring them through bios, windows would not boot. Taking the drives out let me back to windows. Disabling the card from windows, installing drives and enabling back in windows would result in bsod: storport.sys Irql not less or equal error.
I was trying to upgrade a Windows 7 system that booted from this controller. I have an SSD as JBOD, a few SAS drives also in JBOD and 3 SAS drives in RAID5. I tried to upgrade using the latest (at this time) 22H2 on an USB flash drive but it failed with an error after the first reboot (0xC1900101 - 0x20017) that googling suggested was a driver incompatibility error. Tried booting from the USB drive and got the bluescreen from storport.sys. Decided to back up the Windows 7 install (just in case) and erase the SSD. I also found that Windows 10 1909 was the latest version that booted properly with these controllers so what worked for me was:
-Get a copy of Windows 10 1909 using mediacreationtool.bat (it's a script that helps you get whatever version of Windows you like and uses the official MS Media Creation Tool to download it) and write it on a different USB flash drive;
Everything went well so far, all drives recognised (including RAID5 array) and nothing lost. Perhaps it would have worked to upgrade the 7 install to 1909, update the driver and then do the 22H2 update but I'd rather have a clean Windows 10 anyways so I chose to erase the drive since the important stuff was on the other drives anyway and I did a backup in case I forgot something
Please help! I bought a Dell XPS 8920 PC a couple of years ago to play The Sims 4. It worked perfectly until I updated to the 1909 version of Windows Pro. Now my fan revs up really loud and my PC heats up to the point that I feel that my PC will be damaged if I continue to play. This has rendered my PC unusable for me since this was the purpose of my purchase. Any advice or help would be appreciated.
When I purchased this PC about 3 years ago, it had Windows 10 Pro version 1803. When the next version was available, I updated and then tried to play The Sims. That was the first time my PC had ever had problems with the fan revving and getting real hot while playing. I did some research and saw that others TS4 simmers were having the exact same issue after updating Windows 10. So, I reverted to the 1803 version and the fan revving and overheating stopped. All this time I have played just fine. Zero problems. I postponed updating Windows hoping that the situation would eventually resolve.
I am in contact with other forums. That was where I went first, and I am in the process of trying their many suggestions. Hopefully, I can find a simmer who has experienced this when they updated, and they have already found an answer. I would like to know why it has effected TS4 and nothing else on my PC. Have a good day!
@thealienqueen If you want to see whether your PC is actually overheating, or it's just that the fans are working harder than normal, you could do some hardware monitoring. Among the many available apps, hwinfo (free download) is the one I usually ask people to use because I have a log reader that makes its data easy to track. But it also reports readings in real time, if you want to see what happens when you launch Sims 4. Let me know if you'd like me to look over an hwinfo log.
To answer your implicit question, no, I haven't experienced the same thing, on Windows 10 build 1809 or 1903. But I also run hwinfo while playing, and I'd have noticed if any data was suddenly significantly different.
Microsoft support gave me this link entitled "After 1903 update: CPU spikes and noisy fan" at -us/windows/forum/all/after-1903-update-cpu-spikes-and-noisy-fan/8af.... There are a lot of suggestions to try and I'll be going through them one by one. I have also put hardware monitoring on this list. Thanks for the advice and offer of help.
To answer your question about updating BIOS. Yes, I actually check Dell's website daily to see if there are any updates. After I updated to Windows version 1909 I checked again and updated to the current version for my machine.
By the way, I've seen a lot written about very high fps in the Sims and the bad effect they can have on your computer. I have attached my data according to Razer Cortex for TS4 and TS3. Can someone tell me if this is too high and what I can do about it if so? Also, it seems my fps is dropping to zero at times. What would cause this? Thanks.
@thealienqueen Wow, yes, that fps is too high for Sims 4 and even more so for Sims 3. And incidentally, if that's what you mean by an fps drop in Sims 3, even the minimum is higher than it should be, and higher than most people get while playing. Excessively high framerates could certainly account for high temperatures and loud fans, as well as damage your graphics card in the long run.
In general, your in-game framerates should never go above the refresh rate of your monitor. To find out what that is, right-click on your desktop, select Display settings, then Advanced display settings. Clicking "Display Adapter Properties, then "List All Modes," will give you a list of all resolutions and refresh rates supported by your monitor.
If you play in fullscreen mode, the easiest way to limit fps is through the built-in Nvidia Control Panel's profile for each game. Right-click on the desktop and select Nvidia Control Panel, then Manage 3D settings, then the Program Settings tab.
Choose the relevant game .exe (green box): TS4_x64.exe for Sims 4, and TS3.exe (Origin install) or TS3W.exe (disc or Steam install) for Sims 3. If you don't see the game listed, click Add to the right. Scroll down to Vertical sync and set it to On or Adaptive, and turn TriplebBuffering on (red box).
You can see your in-game fps in real time in Sims 3 or Sims 4 by bringing up the cheat console (crtl-shift-C) and entering "fps on" without quotes. A number will appear in the upper right corner for Sims 3, or the lower left corner for Sims 4. ("fps off" makes it go away.) If the Control Panel settings aren't properly limiting the framerates, there are other tools you can use instead. Let me know if you need one.
Just finished working (4) 12-hour shifts in a row. Today, I am going to start working on the long list of things to do that were given to me by Microsoft. I will check the messages here tomorrow and continue trying to find a solution. Thanks!
EpicPrimus himself desperately tried to solve the issues through various online sources like youtube, guides, forums and Microsoft support, but all efforts were to no avail. I gave him a helping hand and after lots of trial and error we got it working.
Starting FS was never an issue. Also changing settings and setting up a flight in the main menu worked fine. The problems appeared after loading into a flight: Stutters, freezes and finally a crash to desktop, occasionally with a blue screen.
Sometimes FS crashed shortly after starting the engine(s), no matter the aircraft, sometimes after a longer flight. In many cases though, FS crashed during airport approach with an active flight plan.
After going through the typical steps of updating windows and drivers, we put all FS settings to low and switched off all effects (bloom, ambient occlusion, etc.) including live air traffic, to ensure the lowest possible resource consumption of FS itself and see how the system reacts. Yes, we even turned off force feedback to be really sure all in game performance related settings were low. A couple of test flights concluded that the issues persisted in the same extend. So the journey finding a solution went on.
For the tech savvy: BIOS Upgrade
Check your motherboard manufacturer website to see if there is a BIOS update available for your model. These updates mostly contain performance and stability improving changes. Be careful though, check out online tutorials on how to perform a BIOS update, as this might cause data loss or render your system unusable when carried out wrong.
Set FlightSimulator.exe Process Priority
Like setting the affinity described above, setting the priority works kind of the same way by preventing FS to consume every available CPU resource, thus giving windows and its processes room to breathe, so to speak.
In case of suggestions, tips, remarks or other solutions that worked for you, let others know as well by posting them below. EpicPrimus and I have created a Community Troubleshooting Guide that we keep expanding with solutions and tweaks. Make sure to check it out as well:
Using your instructions (reducing all rendering and data feed to their lowest levels, and setting Process Affinity with CPU 0 removed from the stack), I was FINALLY able to execute a brief flight across town (Seattle), and successfully landed at a local airport - this 20 minute flight was the best I could muster since last week when I installed the sim.
EDIT: I just found, that the error might also be related to the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime. Did you follow that step in the guide above (Part: Check DirectX and Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime)? Other than downgrading the Nvidia driver, this could fix it as well.
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