I'm not sure why this is happening, but DF (using v12.0.1) is having some really weird behaviour ever since i did a DDU and installed the latest NVIDIA drivers (591.74):



It keeps on cycling like this endlessly for no apparent reason... This behaviour goes away if I reinstall the previous 581.xx drivers.

edit: i checked the threads themselves and they seem to call out a invalidation controller reset or something?



edit2: ... or rather, it STILL happens on the older drivers, but they are far less sever or noticeable. Still seem to be driver related.
It seems to stop leaking memory (at least) whenever i play a game, but the I/O and cpu spikes seems to still happening even then.

edit3: Ok, I downgraded DF to 11.1.1 and the issue stopped entierly. I guess i just had'nt been noticing it until now, but v12 seems to really not like my PC.

Alright, the memory leak stopped happening with the new beta version, but it still does the weird I/O search on a steady basis (about once every min for about 1-2 sec). From what ive been able to skim through the log, it might be related to a screensaver i dont use anymore? Not exactly sure, but that's the only thing i can glean from it...

Alright, sounds good. Still, weird that it isnt preset in v11, so it must've been a recent change. I'll report once the next beta is out!

Seems alot more stable (for now), still have to make it run a while to see how it's really preforming, but no more random spikes in the I/O at least! I'll report back if I notice anything else. Thanks!