pc seems to freeze up on certain web page....then i hear the gpu fan kick on and it comes right back

Oddly enough i have only seen it happen on the fps review.
https://www.thefpsreview.com/

Some kind of weird bug with AMD drivers and chrome and not going thru the longer process with using ddu and doing a more clean driver install. Im pretty sure a clean driver install will fix this. Seems like the last time this happened was after i did a lazy driver upgrade over the top.

It is funny the https://www.thefpsreview.com seems to trigger it so perfectly.

i'd think if only one site causes it but others dont reliably, then it's less likely something global like the browser's hardware accel of rendering the page and ui and more likely something specific that this page is doing that is locking up chrome and to an extent the rest of the system.

Either way, you can just disable hardware gpu accel and see if it still has the same issue.

are you use they arent mining while you are on the page? use noscript and see which script dont cause the load

it's gotta be something in the UI causing it.. i'm not on the newest drivers but yeah going to fpsreview does cause my gpu usage to go up to 5% when scrolling through the page but that's about it. still not enough to trigger it to come out of idle pstate.

sirmonkey1985 said:

it's gotta be something in the UI causing it.. i'm not on the newest drivers but yeah going to fpsreview does cause my gpu usage to go up to 5% when scrolling through the page but that's about it. still not enough to trigger it to come out of idle pstate.

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Well it looks like i fixed it by fully uninstalling both the chip set and display driver and then using ddu in safe mode. I could swear for a very long time i could update my polaris card by just installing over the top of the current driver. This vega card has issues every time i go the lazy driver route. On mine i could pull up gpu-Z sensors after the 15 second or about freeze and see it was fully pegged out the entire time. (doing what is a good question?) doesnt matter if its fixed now. Ill just avoid doing the lazy driver updates

Standard javascript bloat courtesy of default Xenforo config, been blocking that since 2014 on various forums using XF software.

Add following to your adblock custom filter config:

This blocks the bloated GPU-intensive javascript functions, while not triggering the annoying "Please enable Javascript" notification.
This does not block ads on the page. Some fancier forum functions will cease to work. Your call whether you need those or not.

P.S. Disabling 3D HW acceleration will not help you. Your GPU is still being used to render the page layout in 2D using BITBLT and other old-school GDI acceleration functions.

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Well it looks like i fixed it by fully uninstalling both the chip set and display driver and then using ddu in safe mode. I could swear for a very long time i could update my polaris card by just installing over the top of the current driver. This vega card has issues every time i go the lazy driver route. On mine i could pull up gpu-Z sensors after the 15 second or about freeze and see it was fully pegged out the entire time. (doing what is a good question?) doesnt matter if its fixed now. Ill just avoid doing the lazy driver updates

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I'd be worried if I did NOT have this issue using a different driver. That means part of your GDI acceleration is either crippled or being performed on the CPU now, potentially reducing your performance in legitimate functional applications that require it. This is a software bug (or maybe a "feature" now) with XenForo, and I've had this problem on AMD, Nvidia and Intel GPUs going back 5 years. Doesn't always manifest itself as aggressively, usually it doesn't completely freeze my computer but increases GPU usage dramatically enough to make the fans work harder (basically what you mentioned).