I have a few tips for you to try, I read the whoel thread, but there is a ton of details in it, if I am repeating something apologies in advance; First, do not use this drive for previews: Seagate 2TB SATA 7200RPM HDD (for project files, Auto Saves and Preview Renders) Previews, generates lots of drive fragmentation, which is the enemy of video files. Basicaly, I would ONLY use this drive for exported projects. The other thing you want to do, is run the trim command on all your SSD/NVME drives. When you do this, also run the defragment command on the SATA drive I noted above. If you are not sure what Trim/Defrag are its best to google it, but run these commands. Second, depending on what version of windows / build number, you may have the version with the issues with the trim command, that wasnt working proper. If you can, upgrade to the latest Windows Builds, also, look for option drivers while you update, windows 10 update doesnt make it very clear when it offers options updates, but look for them on the update page. Also, if you have not downloaded the samsung magition software, down it, and check to ensure firmware is up to date on those drives. They also offer a NVME enhanced driver (I use it) and it will help. Turn off the MSI game mode boost. Often, game mode boost stuff disables certain things that can allows errors to show up in the math it does. Your driver / Bios setup should be focused on quality, not speed. I dont know if you have screen recording software installed, but sometimes, driver packages etc can offer OBS install ot specific tunning, please ensure thats all off/unistalled (unless you use it, in which case try it as trouble shooting). Do your mother board bios updates, if you have any. Thats a very new Chip, and they may have updates that you need. I have nto run AMD before, but for intel, there is often a 'chipset' driver package for the operating systems that match the Bios update path. AMD might have a simular path. What your seeing on that screen appears to be envenc decode issues. I suspected that your root issue has to do with the overclock of video card at first, but it appears to me that your issue progressed from none, to increase in occurances. This leads me to belive that 7200RPM drive fragmentation and possible TRIM and firmware for the SSD/NVME might be playing a role. I had a issue with the NVME driver causing me all sorts of issues in the late fall, I had to install the driver again as a windows update appeared to damage the driver, but device manager was reporting it was current. You might have the same issues, so best to install the NVME driver again (full install/overwrite). Here is a half decent link for the driver details, but download it from samsung direct, I never trust these 3rd party sites for links to drivers: Samsung NVMe SSD Driver Download v3.3 (guru3d.com) And please, stop using that 7200RPM SATA drive for preview files, between the speed of the drive and the fragmention issues with that type of drive, it will cause you greif at some point. (run the defrag also as noted earlier). And last thing, if you have antivirus software installed, remove it for at least testing. I have used windows defender and have had no issues, but if your running other scanners, they tend to be very agressive, and when you create/read/move a file (such as block of preview video) the anti virus wants to read the block first, and this gets in the way of playing it back. Hopefully one of these steps gets you further along, if you have not tried them already. I am interested in your feedback on this topic. as a side note, I run the multiple 970, 960 drives, an RTX 3090, with the current studio driver and current premier CC, with no play back issues. The GPU is NEVER busy enough in playback to give me any reason to think that a 3070 would have issues (I do note you tried multiple other video cards). As a side note, I am not a big fan of the ADATA brand, I would suggest if you can (not already) for your testing, try putting your source footage on a the samsung for testing. If you open task Manager, you will see that the disk actrivity for all those drives, and those NVME's are not very busy at all, so for testing using the samsung for source is fine. The reason why dont have an good opnion of ADATA is mostly because I dont trust thier specs. I dont know which version you have, but its possible they are using QLC (slower) memory, and often they dont include cache on the drive, or too little cache, and this creates challanges for writting data mostly, but can for reading data also. However, ven the worst NVME drive should be okay for 4k video, but if not already, try to exclude the ADATA and the SATA for testing purposes. Apologies for the long response, hopefully somethign that can help you will be found within it.
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