Well, Affinity is blocked from accessing the web on all my computers. It has never thrown problems or refused to start as a result - as far as I recall. On Windows and Mac (blocked by LuLu, previously Little Snitch).
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MP 7,1 Is the W5700X the best card for most users?
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Well, Affinity is blocked from accessing the web on all my computers. It has never thrown problems or refused to start as a result - as far as I recall. On Windows and Mac (blocked by LuLu, previously Little Snitch).
I fall into this camp as well. We have two 7,1 configs with the W5700X in our post production operation that randomly freeze and crash on a daily basis (yesterday alone, one of them crashed three times). And when I say crash, I mean the machine just turns off.
These crashes occur for us in Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Media Encoder.
This issue is only an issue after a system sleep. Maybe you can enable sleep and see if you have the same issue. It doesn’t mean you don’t just because you’ve disabled sleep. It just means you’ve changed the parameter of the issue.
Ha ha, I gave it a shot. Putting the mac to sleep while leaving After Effects active caused AE to instantly crash upon wake up followed by a complete system freeze.
I have run all my Adobe apps on my 2015 MacBook Pro through all the various versions of Catalina and now with Big Sur with sleep enabled - never a freeze or crash.
So, it sounds to me that there is a problem with at least the 7,1/w7500x/Sleep combination. The reason I include the GPU in that mix is because I am not hearing of these issues from those with the Vega II Pro. My crashes have been somewhat evenly distributed:
Hard to track down because I sometimes go for days with sleep enabled and no crashes.
So, it sounds to me that there is a problem with at least the 7,1/w7500x/Sleep combination. The reason I include the GPU in that mix is because I am not hearing of these issues from those with the Vega II Pro. My crashes have been somewhat evenly distributed:
- Crash during sleep (actually most of the time on waking from sleep it appears)
- Adobe apps - AI, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, AE, Photoshop (in that order)
- Apple apps - Quicktime, Safari (mostly Quicktime)
Hard to track down because I sometimes go for days with sleep enabled and no crashes.
Honestly I’ve been through the issue countless times. It’s a driver issue with the w5700x after a lengthy battle with apple, and AMD confirming it was a driver issue after refusing a warranty claim, I got my money back. Apple have no intention of fixing it. I swapped to the Vega. Zero issue since paying for a more powerful card. It’s a 7,1 issue. Doing this with a different system doesn’t help at all. This issue is specific to this setup. Interestingly I was told some systems that have shipped with the w5700x haven’t displayed the issue. I can’t validate that, but I can tell you from my experience it’s the drivers.
