I've run a miniPC for about a year and a half or so, working great, does just what I need it to do (like, not be a laptop with an attached 14" Screen).....but since it had USB4 implementation, I took advantage of that by running (occasionally, mostly because I could, not because I ever really needed to do so) an inexpensive eGPU enclosure to turn on my spare 1080 Ti when I 'needed to'. It worked fine, all I ever did was benchmark, I found I was having too much fun tweaking settings and such in games on the AMD chips iGPU instead, dialing Doom Eternal to run at 60fps locked (with graphics settings akin to an xbox 360 but hey, the fun is in the doing!) while setting up other games at a locked 30fps (console style) and then...mostly never playing any of them. The USB4 was a nice to have and the eGPU add-on board was only about $90 bucks shipped.
Problem is, Windows broke it with the 23H update a few months ago...at least that is pretty-much what I am thinking since it's the only thing that has changed in the system. Was working 6 months ago, then turned it on and poof....no longer recognized by windows.
Browsing online Reddit and egpu.IO reveal that the egpu market continues to be awkwardly non-compliant (particulalrly with USB4) and nobody has any real answers, yet all of the suggestions involve regedits and updating firmware using dev tools and so forth.
Now, Life isn't so bad I couldn't just...buy a new eGPU adapter....the one I have is already 4 revisions on from the one I bought last year, this is more informative for me: Did anyone else who may occasionally use an eGPU USB4 dock (or Thunderbolt 3 I suppose) notice a breaking or problems introduced with the upgrade to the 23H builds of Windows 11 mid year?
PS: its not the USB4 cable and it's not the port itself as I can use it as a USB port just fine, although I don't own any other USB4 compliant devices I'm assuming I will get max speed on whatever I plug into it...its just the egpu dock (ADT-Link UT3G V3 in case you were wondering, the newest version is about $100 on sale or $125 not on sale on Aliexpress, more on Amazon) that refuses to show up and be recognized by windows. I plug an SSD into the port, it reads just fine.
Thx.
Problem is, Windows broke it with the 23H update a few months ago...at least that is pretty-much what I am thinking since it's the only thing that has changed in the system. Was working 6 months ago, then turned it on and poof....no longer recognized by windows.
Browsing online Reddit and egpu.IO reveal that the egpu market continues to be awkwardly non-compliant (particulalrly with USB4) and nobody has any real answers, yet all of the suggestions involve regedits and updating firmware using dev tools and so forth.
Now, Life isn't so bad I couldn't just...buy a new eGPU adapter....the one I have is already 4 revisions on from the one I bought last year, this is more informative for me: Did anyone else who may occasionally use an eGPU USB4 dock (or Thunderbolt 3 I suppose) notice a breaking or problems introduced with the upgrade to the 23H builds of Windows 11 mid year?
PS: its not the USB4 cable and it's not the port itself as I can use it as a USB port just fine, although I don't own any other USB4 compliant devices I'm assuming I will get max speed on whatever I plug into it...its just the egpu dock (ADT-Link UT3G V3 in case you were wondering, the newest version is about $100 on sale or $125 not on sale on Aliexpress, more on Amazon) that refuses to show up and be recognized by windows. I plug an SSD into the port, it reads just fine.
Thx.