Question RGB Fusion Question

[fastamdman]

I have money for anyone who can solve this annoying issue. Every hour, on the hour, exactly, my gigabyte rtx 2080 and I believe my ram (gpu for sure) will have the LED's turn off, and then back on. When this happens, I get a spike in frame times and a dip in FPS. The whole thing only lasts maybe 5 seconds, however this happens EVERY hour on the hour.

My setup is as follows.
Asus strix z390-E gaming
9900k
Gigabyte RTX 2080 aorus
16GB G.Skill Trident Z ram (upgrading to 32gb's soon xD)
kraken nzxt x62
970 evo nvme, some ssd's, an old hdd.
Corsair TX750 psu.
Windows 10 insider preview (happens as well on fresh install of windows, updated windows and the newest insiders preview)

I have tried everything I can think of, different drivers, uninstalling and reinstalling software, etc etc. If anyone can figure this out, I will seriously give them a game or something.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hey, long time no see. I don't have an answer for you, directly, but I would investigate whether or not it's some sort of "tracking" behavior by Windows Insider Preview releases. It just seems too much... not like a coincedence, to me.

The only other thing that comes to mind, is SSD garbage collection, and the Crucial M4 "thousand hours" bug. Only, in that case, the OS would BSOD and crash, on the hour, after 1000 hours of power-on time, unless the firmware was upgraded to fix that issue.

Do you by any chance have a Crucial M4, as a secondary SSD? Maybe it's "freezing up", but not BSOD'ing the system, because it's not the primary SSD? Check the firmware revision.

 

[nodearr]

Do you have RBG fusion or AORUS engine installed? They cause many issues - remove completely.

 

[ty1erward]

RGB Fusion can/will cause many issues, but Aura Sync/AI Suite is just as bad (or worse). Installed together they certainly conflict and often compound the problems. In either case you can mitigate them for the most part if you absolutley have to (you’ll need to be strong willed lol).

OP- when you say “uninstall” do you mean just the Win add/remove programs? In addtition to that you’ll also need to manually stop and disable the services these tools create (they likely will still be running and active). Depending on your Windows comfort level there would be a variety of ways to to figure out/fix your problem, but my knee jerk reaction based on hour destiption would be to look for a scheduled task for either GB/Aorus or Asus/AI Suite that is set to run hourly and disable it. Or perhaps you’ve installed Afterburner too (or similar) so you’d want to check that as well. Alternativley, either SysInternals Process Explorer (basic) or Windows Performance Recorder (advanced) would show you what is happening during the +/-5 second|hourly event.

Much like AV apps and tools, having two (or more) OC or Mobo RGB control tools is one too many and insanley problemtatic unless you have the patience and knowledge to craft and curate a reasonable give/take solution for yourself.

 

[fastamdman]

I have both RGB Fusion and Aorus engine installed. I use RGB Fusion to control the lighting and Aorus engine to control the fan speeds, overclocks etc. I can ditch that for MSI afterburner, but it did it when both weren't even installed.

When I say uninstall - I mean I have done a fresh windows install at least twice now, possibly 3 times. It has done it with nothing installed and with various combinations of things installed. It's so goofy.

PS: I confirmed today and last night that both the ram and gpu led's turn off, not just the gpu.

 

[ty1erward]

Ah-ha! Now I see... your problem is RGB Fusion (i.e. it’s a mainboard software/utility) and you have an Asus board. For the proper RGB control of both your 2080 and your RAM you need Asus Aura. One of my machines has an Asus Z370-F, GB Xtreme 1080 ti and Trident Z RGB for example and it’s all compatible with Aura Sync. I know it’s probably super confusing because Gigabyte markets it as “RGB Fusion” then also for some dumb reason lists the RGB Fusion “mb_utility_xxx” (i.e. the GB motherboard utility) as a utility along side the “vga__utility_xxx” (i.e. the Aorus OC and RGB control utility), which imho isn’t a great OC tool any way so by using Asus Aura Sync (the correct control in your case) and Afterburner you could avoid the Gigabyte apps all together. Also on a side note, not only is the Gigabyte RGB Fusion mainboard app the wrong one, it also requires Gigabyte App Center to be installed FIRST to even work properly on Gigabyte board (though your can remove App Center after the fact and RGB Fusion will still work as I have a Z270 Aorus G7 and Z390 Aorus Xtreme as well). Soooo.... assuming you do indeed have an Asus board that’s your problem.

 

[fastamdman]

Asus Aura will control the motherboard and ram just fine, but it won't work with the gpu, neither will Aura RGB lighting control. The only thing I have found to work with the rtx 2080 is rgb fusion.

And yes, as stated above I have an asus strix z390-E gaming.

I have uninstalled and cleaned the registry of everything, but with aura sync installed, I can't control the led's on the gpu.

 

[ty1erward]

You can control the RGB of any Aorus card with the “Aorus Engine”- it’s download is listed as vga_utility_aorus_setup_v1.5.0.exe in the dowload section utilities for each/all Aorus cards. But since it’s also an OC utility you’ll want to disable it if you use something else for that (like Afterburner) but your last saved/chosen RGB settings will stick (it’s stored in the cards bios iirc). You don’t want the “RGB Fusion” download (mb_utlity_rgb-fusion_B18.1102.1.zip). It’s for RGB Fusion control of Gigabyte motherboards (which inherently includes control of a GB card and rgb ram if supported) and it also requires Gigabyte App Center.