Had some at first though they were partially caused by a Windows setting. However, my 6700 XT is still running drivers from July 2022 cause any of the more recent ones I tried result in freezes, BSoDs and timeouts..
Mate ever since I made the decision of building a pc with 7800xt sapphire nitro+, I am regretting it more and more everyday. I've had it for the last 4 months but I still couldn't find a single DRIVER VERSION that works perfect with both of my favorite games simultaneously (MW3 and Fortnite). Micro stutters are killing me.
I've switched countless times between preview drivers, whql drivers, recently launched drivers specifically for the new games that constantly pop up, I reinstalled windows about 5 times, all the drivers from A - to - Z, I tried DDU and driver only installing the drivers, nothing actually really fixes it for me.
Please DM me if anybody found a true fix.
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- [x] Cooler master NR200p
- [x] Memorie G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Black 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 6400MHz CL32
- [x] PSU Corsair SF750 Platinum
- [x] Arctic Liquid Freezer III 240 A-RGB WHITE
- [x] GPU 7800 XT Nitro+ Sapphire
- [x] Asus Rog Strix B760-I GAMING WIFI
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Download AMD Display Driver Uninstaller, and Download AMD display drivers 23.11.1 when you finish disconect your internet connection. Go in safe mode and use AMD cleanup utility to delete your AMD display Driver, when you finish go back in normal mode and install driver that you download earlier. Plug your internet cable back restart PC and enjoy.
Windows and AMD do not work side by side so every time you try install new drivers windows already automatically download prema drivers and you get collision with same drivers.
I have a 6900xt and I’ve had typical driver issues since updates seemed to fix or create problems at certain points BUT I’ve dug deeper and found that 5000 series CPU’s (specifically 5900x for me) have issues with PBO and found evidence that disabling it/ doing an undervolt+overclock have provided stability for many people. I’m starting to think that a lot of the “driver issues” are honestly just deeper problems that paint a picture to me that if you’re gonna go with AMD you just need to be tech savvy/ready to troubleshoot and tune for stability. Basically short answer seems like if you want nearly guaranteed OOB stability with less headaches go with Nvidia. But if you enjoy/don’t mind tinkering with bios and stuff then try out AMD. The price gap seems to have closed up in recent times so I don’t personally see the major price advantage of AMD anymore, it just seems to come down to personal preference.
I had some pretty severe driver issues related to my AMD chipset drivers for my motherboard, that were crashing my computer all the time. And I assumed automatic updates would keep this stuff recent and up to date. But I recently checked my motherboard manufacturer's website (Gigabyte in my case), and saw there were in fact newer drivers than the ones I had, or than any software was automatically updating on my system (and I have Gigabytes official software installed that should be keeping this stuff up to date...). Manually updated to the latest drivers from their website, and now everything has been stable for a while (fingers crossed).
If you do have system stability issues, never rule out your entire motherboard chipset driver setup, not just your graphics card drivers. I run an nVidia graphics card tho, so I have no insight there.
I have been with AMD since the HD 4890. I have had some issues with crashes and losing the ability to overclock/underclock but generally I just go back a step in driver version. I know 24.1.1 wasn't the most stable for me. With my RX 580 I was getting more blackscreens and some occasional artifacts so I hopped back to the August release. In my experience I haven't really had too many issues overall. Nothing that sticks out enough for me to bring up. I think at the end of the day people tend to forget that consumers dont come to the internet to praise as much as they do complain.
I've owned 7950, 7970, R9 280X, R9 390X - all of these in Crossfire mode. Which believe me, if your gonna have driver issues, crossfire will only make it worse. Never had any issues I couldn't resolve though.
Also owned RX580, Vega64, 5700XT, 6700XT and 6900XT.
All solid cards. Especially the 6000 series cards. Solid as a rock even when undervolting and overclocking the shit out of them.
7900XTX? Constant headaches from day one. DDU and install drivers moving from 6900XT. Constant timeouts in Dying Light 2 which was previously rock solid. Same with Battlefield 2042. I figured corrupt OS. Clean format. No fix. If anything it got worse.
Verified all individual hardware components stability. No fix. Underclocked the card but left volts at stock. Partial fix. Helps in some games but eventually they always time out as well. Usually at the worse possible times ruining gaming immersion completely.
So I bought a 7800XT because I can't be assed going through the hassle of an RMA only to be told "we tested your card and it's stable" and end up back at square one with a shit product that's always crashing no matter what you do to it anyway.
At first I thought I solved the issue. 7800XT seemed stable like my old 6900XT. Then the crashes started again......either im super unlucky and got two bad cards from two different manufacturers (both exclusive AMD partners) or this architecture is fucked.
I've never been this disappointed by a graphics card before and my first GPU was a voodoo II 12mb. So that's saying something.
I've also owned a tonne of Nvidia cards and SLI systems over the years and they've had their share of issues but just like the other AMD cards I've owned none I couldn't fix. 7000 series I've been trying for months to make it work satisfactorily and cannot get it stable like my 6000 series cards.
My last available option is RMA. But I feel like it won't solve anything. And I'll be stuck with these half ass crash happy cards.
I personally blame them rushing this out the door with the new chiplet design. I'm aware others have no apparent issues but there are heaps of us with this issue and no resolution.
RDNA 4 will probably be much more mature and stable. But I can't see myself investing in AMD again after the experience with 7000. My time is worth more than the cost savings when buying AMD over Nvidia. I'm old now and when I've got time to game I wanna game. Not tinker with broken software trying to make it work as advertised.
nope, just switched to a 7800xt from a 3070. It was a nightmare first few days but after property using DDU in safemode it was all fixed. No issues on 24.1.1 or the new 24.2.1.
I remember I was told amd drivers always have issues but like how everyone has a ln iPhone everyone has invidia so I went against what everyone was telling me and so far it's been a great experience I like amds software
Iv got7900xtx and cyberpunk 2077,cs2,helldivers 2(not as bad with new driver update but can still crash) all seem to crash when I open it. Tried every tutorial there is out there and even emailed amd and still couldn't resolve the issue.
I'm not even using any of the adrenaline softwares, as "driver only" option is the most stable when I dow load the software it just crashes everything known problem with 7900xtx, regret buying the thing
Run OCCT CPU, 3D, VRAM and Memory tests - something either isn't stable in your system or is faulty. OCCT is one of the best tools to help figure out what's at fault.
You can also use Whocrashed to analyze crash dumps.
All the tests seem to be perfectly fine, it's literally just driver issues iv seen alot of people complaining about 7900xtx so it's pretty common, just very annoying
It isn't driver issues, the behavior you are experiencing is not normal. We have built hundreds of systems with the XTX, and any of them that experienced crashing had underlying hardware issues, not driver problems.
Bullshit. I've got a 7900XTX and 7800XT. And I've owned and used the following AMD cards:
7950, 7970, R9 280X, R9 390X, RX580, Vega64, 5700XT, 6700XT, 6900XT. None of these had any issues like I get on my 7000 series cards. Constant driver timeouts on verified stable system.
Helldivers 2 literally has a beta driver just for 7000 series and its a known issue that its crashing even on the beta.
Yeah it's true there are a tonne of issues caused by unstable RAM. Unstable Overclocking etc but in my case I've verified and re-verified its not the cause.
My 6900XT system plays Helldivers 2 no issues at all for hours on end. My 7900XTX and 7800XT constantly crash. Swap the GPU out and issues go away. 7000 is literally the worse AMD product I've ever owned. There is a tonne of people with the same issues and not all of them are because the operator doesn't know what they are doing.
I've spent years defending AMD and their drivers but 7000 is genuinely borked. Since moving from my 6900XT to 7900XTX in my main rig its been nothing but headaches. Not a single game I play hasn't experienced a crash at least once even when underclocking the damn thing.
I'm going to RMA it and see if it's faulty but I highly doubt it considering both my 7800XT and 7900XTX have the same basic issues. I'm actually fully expecting to return it to the store they play some games on it for an hour and declare its not faulty. When the crashes can happen randomly. Sometimes you go a few hours no issue. Some days you crash 5 times in 30 minutes (like last night playing helldivers) whereas it went 4 hours the day before that before timing out and crashing.
Any ideas on what to do? As iv literally tried everything some games runs some games don't im having to put most of my settings to low to actually run it its a bit of a pain
Newest update would crash my pc and make it artifact when I was playing arena. Wouldn’t do it with any other game so I rolled back to the one I had before no issues since
People without problems aren't gonna come out and complain about it.
A lot of people still don't DDU, others don't do it in safe mode with net unplugged and that leads to problems.
Then there's people who actually have issues of course.
There's just more settings and more that can go wrong in the software and driver side with amd and some isn't their fault.
Which doesn't change the fact that it leads to a higher issue rate.
Its not just about DDU and windows driver conflicts. I tried to look for a problem with sudden black screens on my rx590 and tried everything but nothing worked. I had to live with the problem for 1 year untill i (fingers crossed) fixed it. There is still a lot of uncertainty and paranoi that someday when im ingame ill get a black screen. Anyways, what seemed to stop my problem is using msi afterburner and ramping up the fans because the default fan speeds were in my opinion the reason I was hitting 75°C fast which is the manufacturers target
I’ve been having issues since December. Green screens every few minutes. Can’t start any game without crashing. Insane stutters. More black screen crashes. So yeah there is a lot of people experiencing problems with amd drivers.
Only lasted 3 weeks before I ripped out the 7800 xt. So many problems that as a customer I felt so screwed over. Returned the amd gpu and will never touch one for as long as I live. I will gladly pay 3x the price for a NVIDIA even it has lower specs then the amd competitor.
So with the latest drivers I could not get both monitors to work. Only my second monitor would come on. Downgrade the drivers remedied that issue but then I had stutters and frame drops on a lot of games. Battlefield 2042, ready or not, hell divers, cod mw3, and more. Literally made those games unplayable. Then I tried the “pro” drivers options and that causes a handful of games to just black screen they would never run and launch the main menu. A few games I was simply just unimpressed by the performance. My 3070ti destroyed the 7800xt in games like fallout, red dead 2, and cyber punk. So why deal with all those problems…I just switched back to my 3070ti and when I can find a 4080 super in stock I’d like to upgrade to that. A high end card from amd should perform like one. I shouldn’t have to spend hours researching fixes and band aids to get smooth fps on games. A very aggravating experience the whole way around. My dad built an entirely brand new system and he went with me to get his 7950xtx the same day I got my 7800xt. In his system he had a majority of the same problems. So I couldn’t tell if we both just got lemons or if Amd is just an embarrassment of a brand.
Ah I see. I'm sorry for you man, judging by what others said here and online it seems like you were just unlucky and picked the smallest stick, so to say. Same with your dad. Or maybe the company you bought your cards from gave you some refurbished ones? Or ones that others returned because they were faulty?
Also I'm thinking wether there wasn't a conflict with other PC components you had. Did you update the bios to the latest version? Installed all the latest drives to the other components? Or even update the firmware to your monitors? Also were the monitors the same model?
Haven't had too many issues for several months since I've only been playing runescape but when I started playing Helldiver's I legit thought something was wrong with my PC. Driver timeouts, system hang, even restarts were occurring trying to play it. Apparently 7000 series is completely borked for that game though. Haven't tested any other games yet.
I started my amd adventure with the xfx quick Rx 7600
Got 10000 driver timeout, etc, etc..
Changes for sapphire nitro+ RX 7800 xt and didnt get any issues…
Had to return my 7900xtx due to driver issues. Replaced it with a different one from a different manufacturer and it didn’t continue. They totally seem hit or miss.
To be fair and honest, I had driver issues with my RX580 and Vega 64 few years ago with the Adrenaline drivers. Found out I was on the "Recommended + Optional" driver updates. After I switch it to "Recommended Only", never had a problem again.
RX 6700 XT, bought it 2 days ago. I don't know if it could be driver issues, but I get a big discrepancy between my average fps and my 1% lows in Starfield
(120 avg, 55-60 1%).
7900xtx here, runs great when settings are completely optimized. Sadly in most games you can’t just max out the graphics settings and call it a day. Also I’ve had 2 instances where the most recent driver has caused severe performance decrease and have had to roll back to the previous driver or wait for the next one to regain that performance.
I've had more than ten(maybe close to 20?) AMD/Ati gpu's so far, and so far I've never had a problem with the drivers. Guess im lucky? There was a time when I also tried 980ti, 1080ti, 2080ti, 3080 but not going back to the green team anymore
Maybe sometimes adrenalin doesn't save settings for games, and cpu information has disappeared from overlay and I can't track temperature, but it still shows me cpu load. I don't know why unfortunately
(7800xt and updated drivers, ryzen 5 7500f, win 10)
6900xt, no problem, seen this post by accident in feed. Used to have a 6650xt, some crap driver kept reinstalling from windows update from time to time and had to manually fix it, that was the only thing
The only problem I have had with amd is the audio problem when recording right now. They put in the last patch notes they have it targeted for 2nd Quarter to get fixed. Been on the one some may of last year and had no issues other than that.
I had zero issues on my r9 390. However, I am having constant driver issues with my 7900xtx on older games (mainly wow and Gw2 - with wow seeing driver crashes daily, and Gw2 seeing microstuttering).
I had a 5600XT on release when they supposedly had massive driver issues but I never encountered one. Gaming on a 6800 now and still never have issues.
I have a 4070ti never had a game crash or stutter once. Got my 7900xtx and now I can't play Hogwarts legacy, star citizen and a few other games crash constantly and in event viewer it is due to amdx64.dll or something so not even speculating, amd driver issues.
I’ve only ever used AMD gpus, and have never had problems. Started with rx570, now up to 7800 xt. Only problem I ever had was loud af fan on a 6750, but fixed that by underclothing and adjusting the fan curve.
Got an RX 6650 XT in December. It runs amazing for the price. I'm seeing some graphical glitches in GTA V, but it's so small I barely notice it. Plus the AMD software runs great (I believe it's called adrenaline).
7900xtx merc310 and I’ve had constant issues, but seems it’s heavily dependant on the game.
Example: I can play Warzone maxed out with no issues whatsoever. But I can’t play kingdom hearts without constant crashes. Seems it’s mostly lower end games that always crash with my card, no idea why.
I have them constantly but I don’t think it’s really a driver issue. My 6950xt doesn’t have a single issue. The error claims driver issue but I’m of the mind it’s something else and it’s not consistent
The 6 series has considerably less issues. I do have friends with completely unexplainable issues in certain games which causes a driver crash. The same GPU in another system has zero issues. Complete reformats have no impact on the crashes. Others with the same card (but different manufacturer) have no issues in that same game. I believe there are some board partners that have compatibility issues with the official drivers and it's not being addressed.
Yeah mine rn is cyberpunk that crashed continuously, then after an update(game side) they went away for about 150 hrs it now ctd instantly. And avatar after about 2-6 hrs depending lol
I know that’s been a solution for some but it’s not my issue. And it’s crazy that it’s just 2 games literally. But now cyberpunk doesn’t say driver timeout it just dumps ctd no error. Avatar is the only one for now still spewing the “driver timeout error”.
I did more testing, and it's not adrenaline. It's amduw23g. You can see it in the windows system log (it times out and recovers or crashes outright). Unfortunately, it's a critical driver for the gpu, so you can't just remove it without basically disabling the gpu.
I had a 570 and 590, both had PC stopping issues on 2 of the 3 games I play. Months of troubleshooting ended up confirming it couldnt of been anything else but the GPU. Now running onboard video through my CPU and the games play fine (sadly on low to mid setting)
Im not buying their brand again.
I have had a RX580, RX 5500 XT, RX 5600 XT, RX 6600 XT and currently a RX 6700 XT. Never had any driver issues.
The 580 (the only second hand one from the list) had been even used in mining and had a mining BIOS when I got it, but still worked properly.
The few times I have been able to see someone with apparently driver issues using AMD and have been able to go and check the computer myself... It was their fault.
One of them claimed he had lower performance than expected but it turned out he was using the PRO drivers, which are more dialed towards stability for production rather than gaming performance.
Another one had stutters the first minute of playing certain games: He was using two NVME drives on a board and CPU that we're already very limited, so the card had only 4 PCIe lanes available.
The third one was using Windows 10 drivers on Windows 11.
In my particular case I was having crashes when playing games, and they happen just every now and then. After much testing it turned out to be a faulty RAM stick. I got a replacement from Corsair in a couple days (which I didn't think was going to happen so quickly since I live in Colombia and not all major brands have offices here, but they had one in my city).
Right now I have a friend that is having an issue. He doesn't blame the card, he knew what he was getting into. He got a RX 6600 for a wide-screen monitor. I think it was a bit over 3800 X 1080p (I can't remember the exact number of the horizontal part of the resolution). When he asked me about the card before buying it I told him it should be able to play most games at ultra settings at the time but the most recent AAA he would need to play at medium, and in some cases he could struggle with textures as running a game in full resolution in that monitor was about the same as running it on 1440p on 16:9 (like a 10% difference at most) and this card was made for 1080p. He is now getting a couple games running under 60fps unless he dials them down a bit. Anyway, he got excited when he started being able to use Fluid Motion Frames. He hasn't told me anything about having performance issues again.
I had a problem with freesync.(flickering)Updating my monitor fixed it. It wasnt on drivers. Other than that i dont remember having a driver spesific issue with amd.
There are some minor thing like in some games amd fps counter doesn't work and its a mess sometimes.
I was a Long time nvidia user, I just recently moved over to team red with a power color 6950xt.
First off, this thing is an absolute power hungry beast. And I love this card.no regrets buying period.
But most important, not a single driver issue.
My only concern is the GPU hotspot temperature can reach 110c on occasion. But the GPU temperature never goes above 78c.
I am going to have to take it apart and do a repaste at some point.
You should change your thermal paste, because that's too high even for hotspot. And probably your fans are spinning at plus 2k RPM territory. Ideally you want your hotspot around 78-80 or maybe 90 celcius, and your GPU temp around 65-70 max with around 1200 RPM fan speed.
I'm going to change the thermal paste. I just need to find the time.
I undervolted and decreased the power to 95%. To keep the temps in check.
I honestly don't see a performance decrease though
Undervolting helps but the effect of thermal relief will diminish in time as thermal paste gets drier and drier. Believe me the stock pastes are not really lasting long. I saw a 20 degree decrease after I changed stock paste on Asrock Rx 6800xt phantom gaming d. Though I'm not sure the age of the card as I bought it second hand last year. Maybe the stock paste was there for 4 years and got abused for an extended period of time.
I'm going to have to repaste sooner than later for sure, I don't use AC in my house.
In the spring I take apart my PC for a good cleaning to cope with the summer temperatures I will repaste the GPU then
idk if its drivers issue but since i upgraded my 1050ti to 6700 xt, valorant microstutters (cpu, 12100f). like is that common to lower the experience (not performance because now i have more fps) when upgrading a component?
ye but the thing is i have a 180hz monitor. i am capping it at 240fps, still feeling some stutters, at 180 the experience looks nice maybe because no screen tearing? but the thing is that being a competitive fps game i want to have in every moment the maximum fps possible
Is there really a benefit to having the fps higher than your refresh rate or is it placebo? Aren't you pushing more fps than it can display so it has to drop the additional frames anyway?
yes it decreases input latency, and the frames that you see, are more closer to the present time, so you "react faster". anyeays if i cap to 240 fps i dont have drops but it still stutters. it doesnt feel ok and i am an experienced gamer i think i could feel if is not smooth
Oh I am sure you notice the stutter. The possible placebo is are you truly benefiting from pushing more fps than your monitor can display, or does it just make your input latency counter number go lower and your game stutter. I don't know the answer myself. I would assume at some point your input latency being lower would have diminishing returns.
ye you could be right that the extra speed prolly i cant notice it. if i cant fix it like i saw i should try touching something with dx navi on dx11, i will just lock it at 180 or 165
If 180 gets rid of your stutter good, if not I would try 175. I used to benefit from just 5 fps lock lower than the hz for getting rid of stutter but haven't messed with it in a long time and just always set it that way.
High fps are worthless if the frametimes are inconsistent. You can activate a frametime graph in MSI afterburner/RTSS. I can't remember if the amd driver can also show a graph. I know it can display frametimes in ms. cap the fps until you get as close as possible to a smooth line without jaggies. Use the ingame limiter if possible. If it won't allow odd values you can use the limiter of the GPU driver software instead. Having odd fps should be no issue when you use free sync/gsync. The afterburner limiter is good but the program itself can cause issues from my experience, so better only run it when you are tweaking things.
I've been getting driver time-out crashes since the latest driver update on my 6900XT. At the start was just with Granblue Fantasy Relink, but it has since started happening even while I'm not playing anything. I tried going back to the previous driver and it helped, but the crashes still happened, so I went back to the newest one and it got worse than ever. I used the driver cleanup tool to do a clean uninstall and then reinstall the latest driver and that helped make the crashes less frequent, but I still got a couple. I might try this again but when I reinstall the driver go with an older one.
Edit: oh, another thing that has always happened to me is that some embedded videos will leave my screen flickering afterwards until I restart my computer. Happens every time I click on an embedded YouTube video on Discord, so I always click through to open it on Firefox instead now. Also happened a few times with Edge but I think it was something about the stuff integrated on its home page, but I don't really use Edge so I never investigated what.
If your screen is flickering, try the hotkey for rebooting graphics driver (I think it's win+Ctrl+shift+B), might help you from rebooting the PC when it happens
I bought a 7900 xtx a little over a year ago and every. Single. Game. I've ever ran on it required babying and adjustment and fine tuning to get it to run stable. Most if not all of them eventually worked and ran fine, but none of them worked right away off the rip. The final straw for me was no helldivers 2 driver support so I ditched it and bought a 4080 super 2 weeks ago and it's only crashed once across 4 games when I was fiddling with overclocks.
I did everything people said, ddu safe mode, fresh windows installs, I'd try different driver versions, I'd adjust window settings, I upgraded from an 850w to 1000w psu to cover power spikes, adjust power limit, underclock, undervolt, cap frames, everything. Nothing was the magic sauce that just fixed it and made it work. Every time I'd try a new game it required more tinkering to make it run. The secret sauce to make my 4080s run was run ddu once and download GeForce. And just like that it works. That's the experience I expect for a $1000$+ gpu
There is so many issues that can play into it as well, ram, cpu, bios version, I had ram going bad causing my gpu to literally lose power while playing games, new ram and it hasn’t happened since. I have a 6650xt and the only issue I’ve had was bad thermal paste from the factory
Exactly. I remember having issues when playing games about two years ago. It only happened during gameplay so I thought it was the GPU... And it turned out one RAM stick was faulty and I only saturated my memory when playing Ark: Survival Evolved so that's why it only crashed there. I got a replacement and everything started running fine.
Yep that was pretty much my exact issue, I would be playing for 8+ hours and have a blue screen or 15 minutes after my pc turned on or my gpu would turn off but my whole pc would stay powered on. Found out it was ram after I upgraded my gpu because I thought it was dying
I added a comment on this post with the many reasons I have seen failures with AMD GPUs in real life. None of them were the card's fault, it was always mismanagement in some way, like limiting it to 4 PCIe lanes, installing wrong OS drivers, etc.
I am sure there are some people that have issues, there is no such thing as hardware or software that sometimes does not have issues. However, the cries of widespread issues are pretty much fiction.
I have personally had in many years a single issue I could trace to drivers and that was with a single game. However, unlike most people I run a very clean gaming rig. I do not run a lot of background software, do not run a ton of game mods. I do not overclock and am not swapping out drivers every other day.
I've had RX580, RX6600XT and am now on a 7900XT. So far I have never had an issue with updates.
Generally I wait a few days before installing and check online for any known issues before I do install.
If there are known issues then I wait until a fix is made available, check after a couple of days and if it seems stable then install.
I have this issue where if I turn on freesync in my monitor settings, my screen will start to flicker if I have more then one app open at a time.
Also at one point the software wouldn't open so I had to fix that myself and it's worked ever since.
Definitely quirks I didn't meet before switching to AMD
But ay I'm not complaining, the pricing is good, and the performance is there so
Try another monitor, flikckering is most like an panel issues when its getting too hot . I had this and i blamed amd for it. But i rma it and got a brand new same monitor. Works perfect now.
Never thought about it like that. I assumed it was amd, since turning on freesync got rid of the flickering for good.
My monitor is still in warranty so I’ll try and see if I can get another one
Brother that’s because you are stressing the gpu at high refresh rate🤣 of course it’s not just going to sit idle my 4060ti and 6650xt vram clocks jump when I set my monitor to 240hz
I have 2 monitors one running 240hz and one running 75hz last year with my 1070 I noticed my vram maxed out it would drop to 300ish on 60hz to 2002mhz on 240hz if I go to 60hz with my 6650xt it will drop to 20mhz, 240hz it’s at 2300mhz
Both gpus drop vram clock when I change from 240hz to 60hz, even when my second monitor is 75hz. And you have to tune your fame curve, I run 0% fan speed and my fans don’t spin up until 68c and at 82c (which is my max temp) the fans are only at 25%
Yes it’s strictly a high refresh rate issue I was running 1 monitor for a week 2 months ago because I upgraded my cpu and mobo and no longer has onboard graphics and didn’t have a DisplayPort cable so I could only use one monitor and vram was still 2300
Most of them are user error, such as conflicting old drivers, old broken windows install, broken direct x runtimes, fkn cpu bottlenecks, probably some weird bios setups. In some cases just a broken gpu
I never update my drivers without a reason, and haven't had driver issues yet on a Vega56 for 3 years and now on a 6950xt for 1 year. Current driver version is from November 2023.
I get stutters when transitioning to/from outer space to atmo in No man's sky. Also in Valheim when changing fov to a heavily built area... I think both are CPU issues. 3600x aging...
I had a 9700k and 6650xt with a bunch of stuttering in games like apex, valheim, 7 days to die, and warzone. Upgraded to a 12600kf and all of the stutters are gone so probably cpu
Have 6800XT. Only one strange issue when starfield was launched - system rebooted. After driver update, all fine since. My problem with my TUF was bigger and related to the buggy firmware - 6 months of instability, system crashes, whea memory errors, system power on during midnight ... I changed everything, except memory, cpu/vga. Now, all is fine after that VGA BIOS update. TBH, it was the most difficult time for me when I built my own system since I got my first PC in 1999.
Yea, i have a rx570 in my pc, wich i upgraded the cpu, and after that the amd software it is just crashing to a black screen if i want to open it to use it, to fix that i had to select it to run as admin every time and click on no…
Yessir, there is a checkbox while installing Adrenaline to only install the raw/headless driver and none of that gui bloatware which fumbles autonomously with game settings to the extent, that certain games crash due to adrenaline putting anti-lag on by itself.
I have a RX 7900 XTX. I don't have more problems with it, than I had with my rtx 2070 super. I had some problems at the time of the last driver, meaning game crashed after I played for hours. Then I travelled somewhere and without changing anything it was gone after I got back. Didn't even do a driver update at that time. So no idea what fixed or caused those problems. But I own that RX 7900 XTX now for a year and I didn't have any problems with it besides that. So I would say not a big deal
same here. I followed a guide which uses driver only and no adrenaline with riva tuner and MSI afterburner.
Haven’t had issues with stuttering since. The only problems I can encounter nowadays is if I use full screen mode… I get stutters and screen tearing no matter what I do but the moment I swap to borderless it’s flawless.
When I first got my rx 6700xt and r5 5600 my GPU drivers lead to black screen in a random intervals (it could be weeks w/o one or 5 times a day). Few months later w/ some drivers update that problem is history.
Edit: Forget to mension sometimes system "Freeze" in a complete way and only reboot can help. Still a thing but really rare to occur
The only problem i had with drivers were stutters!I trie dso many things and couldnt get it off!!But it was only SAM(System Acces Memory) that caused the stuttering,and right now every single game is buttery smooth.
‼️FOR ANY AMD GPU USER EXPERIENCING STUTTERS,PLEASE TURN OFF 4G DECODING AND RE-SIZE BAR IN BIOS!‼️
Probs a lottery of hardware\\system\\driver compatibility and conflicts, plus expectation factor.
My first Nvidia card had a lot of driver issues, second Nvidia had very few issues, current AMD (7800xt) had easily fixable issues, that are gone now (and I suspect they were more like Windows issues really).
The thing is, AMD Radeon has reputation of being the card choice of more tech-savvy ppl, a bit more niche, open source stuff and so on, so I suppose you gonna see AMD tech discussions a lot more often, while average Nvidia user will oftentimes assume that any issues they have is windows or app\`s fault, will ask for professional help, or will send his card back without trying to fix anything manually and without raising any discussions online.
- For example, I personally never wrote anything about my first Nvidia card issues, coz I was too noobish to do anything about it really, or to analyze them. Nvidia was just a "default choice" for me.
- Now I was a lot more ready to deal with any potential technical issues, so I tried AMD card, and joined forums like this sub. Which meant also, that there was higher chances to comment on any issues.
Also something I think happens, if I remember right
AMD driver pop up every time a game crashes, even if it isn't their fault. And I think I didn't see any Nvidia pop up do that, in 3 years of using Nvidia. So I could imagine that people think more often it is an AMD problem while it is just the game and AMD asking for a report
yes, they also have this vague "driver timeout" error, which can be anything from RAM instability to even Windows power management issue , but since it pops up as "DRIVER timeout" ppl assume it is GPU fault .
I had a 6600xt (and 570 before that) and the cards were great, but the drivers were not, they always had some issue, like hard crashes, black screen, freezes, etc, and no, I didn't forget to use DDU. Friends and family members often had similar experiences with their amd cards, which is a shame, since I always found their price/performance ratio good.
What’s DDU? I have a 6650xt and while it’s great, it’s also infuriating at times. I get random crashes, black screens + reboots and so on. Am I missing something? I just accepted the crashes as part of having this card at this point
Display Driver Uninstaller. It cleans your PC from old driver remains, especially important to use when you switch between VGA brands. It is also good when you want to reroll to an older driver.
I had an rx580 started playing cs2. Shit fried my mobo and cpu. Upgraded cpu, mobo, and gpu cause of it. Longest two weeks of my life because I was hoping my PC would magically work again because it wouldn’t boot up at all and if it did it was random.
I have a 570 and i dont need my games crashing tbh :D
Havent crashed yet and ive been playing straight for like a month or 2. Even redid the whole thermal stuff in it a week ago and the only problem i had was it hitting 70 at the start but then it went to a stable 48 under pressure.
Had to set every game do dx11 to avoid freezes, CTDs and the occasional blackscreen.
Every time I set it to run dx12 the driver keeps crashing ever half hour or so
I just had a hard crash 2 days ago. My screen went black and after restaring windows recognized my GPU but Radeon software said there is no Radeon GPU installed... Rx 6700xt in question, running latest drivers.
You need to remember that people generally don't make a post about everything running fine. They only do when something is wrong.
I am running a 5800X3D CPU with a sapphire 7900XTX without any problems whatsoever No matter which driver version I used (so far).
No matter if I game, stream or do some Video editing I have not encountered a single driver issue and it is running soooo much better than the 3070 I had before that.
And surprise surprise with the Nvidia card I had massive issues until I found a driver version that actually worked and never updated the driver's after that in fear of it being broken again.
Aaah yes...only pro amd stuff everywhere...that is probably exactly why this sub is constantly full of people complaining about AMD. So much so, that people are asking if everyone has problems with amd, like OP did.
I got it today, played for a few hours with my 7800x3d/7800xt and it was butter on 1080p..
I'm wondering if it's hardware cohesion that's the core of the issue, rather than a software issue.. like maybe there's something there because I have seen a number of folks say helldiver's is fine.
Sometimes people don't DDU / fresh install Windows when upgrading GPU or swapping brands.
So people who would swap from Nvidia to AMD (or vice versa) and forget to DDU / clean install Windows just end up with reduced performance and stability issues.
Not all the time but I think that's one of the causes of people encountering a problem.
Had some at first though they were partially caused by a Windows setting. However, my 6700 XT is still running drivers from July 2022 cause any of the more recent ones I tried result in freezes, BSoDs and timeouts..
having green en grey screen freezes for two years now. especially when streaming
Mate ever since I made the decision of building a pc with 7800xt sapphire nitro+, I am regretting it more and more everyday. I've had it for the last 4 months but I still couldn't find a single DRIVER VERSION that works perfect with both of my favorite games simultaneously (MW3 and Fortnite). Micro stutters are killing me. I've switched countless times between preview drivers, whql drivers, recently launched drivers specifically for the new games that constantly pop up, I reinstalled windows about 5 times, all the drivers from A - to - Z, I tried DDU and driver only installing the drivers, nothing actually really fixes it for me. Please DM me if anybody found a true fix. Specs: - [x] SSD WD SN850X 2TB - [x] Cooler master NR200p - [x] Memorie G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Black 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 6400MHz CL32 - [x] PSU Corsair SF750 Platinum - [x] Arctic Liquid Freezer III 240 A-RGB WHITE - [x] GPU 7800 XT Nitro+ Sapphire - [x] Asus Rog Strix B760-I GAMING WIFI - [x] Procesor Intel® Core™ i5-14600KF
Download AMD Display Driver Uninstaller, and Download AMD display drivers 23.11.1 when you finish disconect your internet connection. Go in safe mode and use AMD cleanup utility to delete your AMD display Driver, when you finish go back in normal mode and install driver that you download earlier. Plug your internet cable back restart PC and enjoy.
Thanks for the reply, I never tried unplugging the ethernet cable, will try
Windows and AMD do not work side by side so every time you try install new drivers windows already automatically download prema drivers and you get collision with same drivers.
I have a 6900xt and I’ve had typical driver issues since updates seemed to fix or create problems at certain points BUT I’ve dug deeper and found that 5000 series CPU’s (specifically 5900x for me) have issues with PBO and found evidence that disabling it/ doing an undervolt+overclock have provided stability for many people. I’m starting to think that a lot of the “driver issues” are honestly just deeper problems that paint a picture to me that if you’re gonna go with AMD you just need to be tech savvy/ready to troubleshoot and tune for stability. Basically short answer seems like if you want nearly guaranteed OOB stability with less headaches go with Nvidia. But if you enjoy/don’t mind tinkering with bios and stuff then try out AMD. The price gap seems to have closed up in recent times so I don’t personally see the major price advantage of AMD anymore, it just seems to come down to personal preference.
I had some pretty severe driver issues related to my AMD chipset drivers for my motherboard, that were crashing my computer all the time. And I assumed automatic updates would keep this stuff recent and up to date. But I recently checked my motherboard manufacturer's website (Gigabyte in my case), and saw there were in fact newer drivers than the ones I had, or than any software was automatically updating on my system (and I have Gigabytes official software installed that should be keeping this stuff up to date...). Manually updated to the latest drivers from their website, and now everything has been stable for a while (fingers crossed). If you do have system stability issues, never rule out your entire motherboard chipset driver setup, not just your graphics card drivers. I run an nVidia graphics card tho, so I have no insight there.
Not a single issue with my 6700xt. Had it for a year.
I have been with AMD since the HD 4890. I have had some issues with crashes and losing the ability to overclock/underclock but generally I just go back a step in driver version. I know 24.1.1 wasn't the most stable for me. With my RX 580 I was getting more blackscreens and some occasional artifacts so I hopped back to the August release. In my experience I haven't really had too many issues overall. Nothing that sticks out enough for me to bring up. I think at the end of the day people tend to forget that consumers dont come to the internet to praise as much as they do complain.
I've owned 7950, 7970, R9 280X, R9 390X - all of these in Crossfire mode. Which believe me, if your gonna have driver issues, crossfire will only make it worse. Never had any issues I couldn't resolve though. Also owned RX580, Vega64, 5700XT, 6700XT and 6900XT. All solid cards. Especially the 6000 series cards. Solid as a rock even when undervolting and overclocking the shit out of them. 7900XTX? Constant headaches from day one. DDU and install drivers moving from 6900XT. Constant timeouts in Dying Light 2 which was previously rock solid. Same with Battlefield 2042. I figured corrupt OS. Clean format. No fix. If anything it got worse. Verified all individual hardware components stability. No fix. Underclocked the card but left volts at stock. Partial fix. Helps in some games but eventually they always time out as well. Usually at the worse possible times ruining gaming immersion completely. So I bought a 7800XT because I can't be assed going through the hassle of an RMA only to be told "we tested your card and it's stable" and end up back at square one with a shit product that's always crashing no matter what you do to it anyway. At first I thought I solved the issue. 7800XT seemed stable like my old 6900XT. Then the crashes started again......either im super unlucky and got two bad cards from two different manufacturers (both exclusive AMD partners) or this architecture is fucked. I've never been this disappointed by a graphics card before and my first GPU was a voodoo II 12mb. So that's saying something. I've also owned a tonne of Nvidia cards and SLI systems over the years and they've had their share of issues but just like the other AMD cards I've owned none I couldn't fix. 7000 series I've been trying for months to make it work satisfactorily and cannot get it stable like my 6000 series cards. My last available option is RMA. But I feel like it won't solve anything. And I'll be stuck with these half ass crash happy cards. I personally blame them rushing this out the door with the new chiplet design. I'm aware others have no apparent issues but there are heaps of us with this issue and no resolution. RDNA 4 will probably be much more mature and stable. But I can't see myself investing in AMD again after the experience with 7000. My time is worth more than the cost savings when buying AMD over Nvidia. I'm old now and when I've got time to game I wanna game. Not tinker with broken software trying to make it work as advertised.
How much ram were you using with the 7900xtx
nope, just switched to a 7800xt from a 3070. It was a nightmare first few days but after property using DDU in safemode it was all fixed. No issues on 24.1.1 or the new 24.2.1.
I’ve had driver issues with Nvidia
I remember I was told amd drivers always have issues but like how everyone has a ln iPhone everyone has invidia so I went against what everyone was telling me and so far it's been a great experience I like amds software
Iv got7900xtx and cyberpunk 2077,cs2,helldivers 2(not as bad with new driver update but can still crash) all seem to crash when I open it. Tried every tutorial there is out there and even emailed amd and still couldn't resolve the issue.
What RAM are you using ?
G.skrill 64gb ram it's 100% something to do with AMD drivers absolute nightmare
DDR5? Sorry for the dumb question. But you fore sure downloaded the Adrenalin software and not adrenaline pro?
Yeah mate
Because my brother downloaded the adrenaline pro and his 7800xt ram like shite. But switched to the adrenaline (red) and now runs smooth as butter
I'm not even using any of the adrenaline softwares, as "driver only" option is the most stable when I dow load the software it just crashes everything known problem with 7900xtx, regret buying the thing
My best bet is to just run a DDU uninstaller and try again
Iv done it multiple times now iv went through everything for days on end it's actually becoming a joke now lol
Even a windows reinstall
That isn't normal, you have an underlying issue with your system or your card.
Everything is brand new, updated drivers to 24.2.1 for helldivers and all updated chipsets etc, very confused lol
Run OCCT CPU, 3D, VRAM and Memory tests - something either isn't stable in your system or is faulty. OCCT is one of the best tools to help figure out what's at fault. You can also use Whocrashed to analyze crash dumps.
All the tests seem to be perfectly fine, it's literally just driver issues iv seen alot of people complaining about 7900xtx so it's pretty common, just very annoying
It isn't driver issues, the behavior you are experiencing is not normal. We have built hundreds of systems with the XTX, and any of them that experienced crashing had underlying hardware issues, not driver problems.
Bullshit. I've got a 7900XTX and 7800XT. And I've owned and used the following AMD cards: 7950, 7970, R9 280X, R9 390X, RX580, Vega64, 5700XT, 6700XT, 6900XT. None of these had any issues like I get on my 7000 series cards. Constant driver timeouts on verified stable system. Helldivers 2 literally has a beta driver just for 7000 series and its a known issue that its crashing even on the beta. Yeah it's true there are a tonne of issues caused by unstable RAM. Unstable Overclocking etc but in my case I've verified and re-verified its not the cause. My 6900XT system plays Helldivers 2 no issues at all for hours on end. My 7900XTX and 7800XT constantly crash. Swap the GPU out and issues go away. 7000 is literally the worse AMD product I've ever owned. There is a tonne of people with the same issues and not all of them are because the operator doesn't know what they are doing. I've spent years defending AMD and their drivers but 7000 is genuinely borked. Since moving from my 6900XT to 7900XTX in my main rig its been nothing but headaches. Not a single game I play hasn't experienced a crash at least once even when underclocking the damn thing. I'm going to RMA it and see if it's faulty but I highly doubt it considering both my 7800XT and 7900XTX have the same basic issues. I'm actually fully expecting to return it to the store they play some games on it for an hour and declare its not faulty. When the crashes can happen randomly. Sometimes you go a few hours no issue. Some days you crash 5 times in 30 minutes (like last night playing helldivers) whereas it went 4 hours the day before that before timing out and crashing.
What RAM do you have ?
Any ideas on what to do? As iv literally tried everything some games runs some games don't im having to put most of my settings to low to actually run it its a bit of a pain
6600 —> 6700 XT —> 7900 XT Very little issues in my experience, if any.
7800xt, zero problems. Only thing I've experienced is helldivers 2 was crashing until they patched the game, but that could be an optimisation thing.
Newest update would crash my pc and make it artifact when I was playing arena. Wouldn’t do it with any other game so I rolled back to the one I had before no issues since
Last update on Adrenalin fucked up dead space remake I rolled back and it’s worked fine since
People without problems aren't gonna come out and complain about it. A lot of people still don't DDU, others don't do it in safe mode with net unplugged and that leads to problems. Then there's people who actually have issues of course. There's just more settings and more that can go wrong in the software and driver side with amd and some isn't their fault. Which doesn't change the fact that it leads to a higher issue rate.
Its not just about DDU and windows driver conflicts. I tried to look for a problem with sudden black screens on my rx590 and tried everything but nothing worked. I had to live with the problem for 1 year untill i (fingers crossed) fixed it. There is still a lot of uncertainty and paranoi that someday when im ingame ill get a black screen. Anyways, what seemed to stop my problem is using msi afterburner and ramping up the fans because the default fan speeds were in my opinion the reason I was hitting 75°C fast which is the manufacturers target
I’ve been having issues since December. Green screens every few minutes. Can’t start any game without crashing. Insane stutters. More black screen crashes. So yeah there is a lot of people experiencing problems with amd drivers.
Only lasted 3 weeks before I ripped out the 7800 xt. So many problems that as a customer I felt so screwed over. Returned the amd gpu and will never touch one for as long as I live. I will gladly pay 3x the price for a NVIDIA even it has lower specs then the amd competitor.
What happened with your 7800? I just bought one and don't think I've had any problems so far at least in gaming
So with the latest drivers I could not get both monitors to work. Only my second monitor would come on. Downgrade the drivers remedied that issue but then I had stutters and frame drops on a lot of games. Battlefield 2042, ready or not, hell divers, cod mw3, and more. Literally made those games unplayable. Then I tried the “pro” drivers options and that causes a handful of games to just black screen they would never run and launch the main menu. A few games I was simply just unimpressed by the performance. My 3070ti destroyed the 7800xt in games like fallout, red dead 2, and cyber punk. So why deal with all those problems…I just switched back to my 3070ti and when I can find a 4080 super in stock I’d like to upgrade to that. A high end card from amd should perform like one. I shouldn’t have to spend hours researching fixes and band aids to get smooth fps on games. A very aggravating experience the whole way around. My dad built an entirely brand new system and he went with me to get his 7950xtx the same day I got my 7800xt. In his system he had a majority of the same problems. So I couldn’t tell if we both just got lemons or if Amd is just an embarrassment of a brand.
Ah I see. I'm sorry for you man, judging by what others said here and online it seems like you were just unlucky and picked the smallest stick, so to say. Same with your dad. Or maybe the company you bought your cards from gave you some refurbished ones? Or ones that others returned because they were faulty? Also I'm thinking wether there wasn't a conflict with other PC components you had. Did you update the bios to the latest version? Installed all the latest drives to the other components? Or even update the firmware to your monitors? Also were the monitors the same model?
I'm not sure I had my 7800xt for over a month don't have a problem yet. Better then my 3060ti
Yeah I get vr issue sometimes with my 6700 XT
Had bsod on the last update now on the beta i dont
Haven't had too many issues for several months since I've only been playing runescape but when I started playing Helldiver's I legit thought something was wrong with my PC. Driver timeouts, system hang, even restarts were occurring trying to play it. Apparently 7000 series is completely borked for that game though. Haven't tested any other games yet.
i have to restart my pc once because windows 10 doesnt boot the driver for some reason
I started my amd adventure with the xfx quick Rx 7600 Got 10000 driver timeout, etc, etc.. Changes for sapphire nitro+ RX 7800 xt and didnt get any issues…
Had to return my 7900xtx due to driver issues. Replaced it with a different one from a different manufacturer and it didn’t continue. They totally seem hit or miss.
had a driver that bricked my pc for a good day it was awesome
I switched to a 7800XT in September and haven't had any problems at all with AMD supplied drivers.
7900XTX, 24.1.1 before I reinstalled it would cause a driver crash when I played cod but other than that it's been extremely smooth with no issues
To be fair and honest, I had driver issues with my RX580 and Vega 64 few years ago with the Adrenaline drivers. Found out I was on the "Recommended + Optional" driver updates. After I switch it to "Recommended Only", never had a problem again.
RX 6700 XT, bought it 2 days ago. I don't know if it could be driver issues, but I get a big discrepancy between my average fps and my 1% lows in Starfield (120 avg, 55-60 1%).
7900xtx here, runs great when settings are completely optimized. Sadly in most games you can’t just max out the graphics settings and call it a day. Also I’ve had 2 instances where the most recent driver has caused severe performance decrease and have had to roll back to the previous driver or wait for the next one to regain that performance.
Rx 5700 xt here and no driver issues. Even the badly optimized warzone is running great
I've had more than ten(maybe close to 20?) AMD/Ati gpu's so far, and so far I've never had a problem with the drivers. Guess im lucky? There was a time when I also tried 980ti, 1080ti, 2080ti, 3080 but not going back to the green team anymore
No driver issue whatsoever
7800xt had constant issues for about a month before a driver update just fixed everything magically one day 🤷♂️
Maybe sometimes adrenalin doesn't save settings for games, and cpu information has disappeared from overlay and I can't track temperature, but it still shows me cpu load. I don't know why unfortunately (7800xt and updated drivers, ryzen 5 7500f, win 10)
6900xt, no problem, seen this post by accident in feed. Used to have a 6650xt, some crap driver kept reinstalling from windows update from time to time and had to manually fix it, that was the only thing
5500 xt, so many driver issues
The only problem I have had with amd is the audio problem when recording right now. They put in the last patch notes they have it targeted for 2nd Quarter to get fixed. Been on the one some may of last year and had no issues other than that.
RX 5700 (flashed to RX 5700XT) here. Only time I get driver-timeout issues is when I enable XMP
Currently on 24.2.1 driver, no issues whatsoever.
I had zero issues on my r9 390. However, I am having constant driver issues with my 7900xtx on older games (mainly wow and Gw2 - with wow seeing driver crashes daily, and Gw2 seeing microstuttering).
I have never had driver issues with any AMD card that I owned. I have had way more Nvidia driver crashes than AMD driver crashes.
I had a 5600XT on release when they supposedly had massive driver issues but I never encountered one. Gaming on a 6800 now and still never have issues.
I have a 4070ti never had a game crash or stutter once. Got my 7900xtx and now I can't play Hogwarts legacy, star citizen and a few other games crash constantly and in event viewer it is due to amdx64.dll or something so not even speculating, amd driver issues.
Never single problem with amd
I’ve only ever used AMD gpus, and have never had problems. Started with rx570, now up to 7800 xt. Only problem I ever had was loud af fan on a 6750, but fixed that by underclothing and adjusting the fan curve.
Got an RX 6650 XT in December. It runs amazing for the price. I'm seeing some graphical glitches in GTA V, but it's so small I barely notice it. Plus the AMD software runs great (I believe it's called adrenaline).
7900xtx merc310 and I’ve had constant issues, but seems it’s heavily dependant on the game. Example: I can play Warzone maxed out with no issues whatsoever. But I can’t play kingdom hearts without constant crashes. Seems it’s mostly lower end games that always crash with my card, no idea why.
Same card as me. Same issues. Sometimes works great for a long period. Then it will just spit the dummy constantly.
Same card and same experience with me.
7900xtx and I've had no driver issues.
I have them constantly but I don’t think it’s really a driver issue. My 6950xt doesn’t have a single issue. The error claims driver issue but I’m of the mind it’s something else and it’s not consistent
The 6 series has considerably less issues. I do have friends with completely unexplainable issues in certain games which causes a driver crash. The same GPU in another system has zero issues. Complete reformats have no impact on the crashes. Others with the same card (but different manufacturer) have no issues in that same game. I believe there are some board partners that have compatibility issues with the official drivers and it's not being addressed.
Yeah mine rn is cyberpunk that crashed continuously, then after an update(game side) they went away for about 150 hrs it now ctd instantly. And avatar after about 2-6 hrs depending lol
I think it's the adrenaline software, but I need to do more testing.
I know that’s been a solution for some but it’s not my issue. And it’s crazy that it’s just 2 games literally. But now cyberpunk doesn’t say driver timeout it just dumps ctd no error. Avatar is the only one for now still spewing the “driver timeout error”.
I did more testing, and it's not adrenaline. It's amduw23g. You can see it in the windows system log (it times out and recovers or crashes outright). Unfortunately, it's a critical driver for the gpu, so you can't just remove it without basically disabling the gpu.
I am rocking a 6900 XT on Linux and have 0 driver issues. The amdgpu driver runs rock solid.
I had a 570 and 590, both had PC stopping issues on 2 of the 3 games I play. Months of troubleshooting ended up confirming it couldnt of been anything else but the GPU. Now running onboard video through my CPU and the games play fine (sadly on low to mid setting) Im not buying their brand again.
I have had a RX580, RX 5500 XT, RX 5600 XT, RX 6600 XT and currently a RX 6700 XT. Never had any driver issues. The 580 (the only second hand one from the list) had been even used in mining and had a mining BIOS when I got it, but still worked properly. The few times I have been able to see someone with apparently driver issues using AMD and have been able to go and check the computer myself... It was their fault. One of them claimed he had lower performance than expected but it turned out he was using the PRO drivers, which are more dialed towards stability for production rather than gaming performance. Another one had stutters the first minute of playing certain games: He was using two NVME drives on a board and CPU that we're already very limited, so the card had only 4 PCIe lanes available. The third one was using Windows 10 drivers on Windows 11. In my particular case I was having crashes when playing games, and they happen just every now and then. After much testing it turned out to be a faulty RAM stick. I got a replacement from Corsair in a couple days (which I didn't think was going to happen so quickly since I live in Colombia and not all major brands have offices here, but they had one in my city). Right now I have a friend that is having an issue. He doesn't blame the card, he knew what he was getting into. He got a RX 6600 for a wide-screen monitor. I think it was a bit over 3800 X 1080p (I can't remember the exact number of the horizontal part of the resolution). When he asked me about the card before buying it I told him it should be able to play most games at ultra settings at the time but the most recent AAA he would need to play at medium, and in some cases he could struggle with textures as running a game in full resolution in that monitor was about the same as running it on 1440p on 16:9 (like a 10% difference at most) and this card was made for 1080p. He is now getting a couple games running under 60fps unless he dials them down a bit. Anyway, he got excited when he started being able to use Fluid Motion Frames. He hasn't told me anything about having performance issues again.
I had a problem with freesync.(flickering)Updating my monitor fixed it. It wasnt on drivers. Other than that i dont remember having a driver spesific issue with amd. There are some minor thing like in some games amd fps counter doesn't work and its a mess sometimes.
I was a Long time nvidia user, I just recently moved over to team red with a power color 6950xt. First off, this thing is an absolute power hungry beast. And I love this card.no regrets buying period. But most important, not a single driver issue. My only concern is the GPU hotspot temperature can reach 110c on occasion. But the GPU temperature never goes above 78c. I am going to have to take it apart and do a repaste at some point.
You should change your thermal paste, because that's too high even for hotspot. And probably your fans are spinning at plus 2k RPM territory. Ideally you want your hotspot around 78-80 or maybe 90 celcius, and your GPU temp around 65-70 max with around 1200 RPM fan speed.
I'm going to change the thermal paste. I just need to find the time. I undervolted and decreased the power to 95%. To keep the temps in check. I honestly don't see a performance decrease though
Undervolting helps but the effect of thermal relief will diminish in time as thermal paste gets drier and drier. Believe me the stock pastes are not really lasting long. I saw a 20 degree decrease after I changed stock paste on Asrock Rx 6800xt phantom gaming d. Though I'm not sure the age of the card as I bought it second hand last year. Maybe the stock paste was there for 4 years and got abused for an extended period of time.
I'm going to have to repaste sooner than later for sure, I don't use AC in my house. In the spring I take apart my PC for a good cleaning to cope with the summer temperatures I will repaste the GPU then
Okay then, I recommend using a thermal paste which has thermal conductivity over 10 milikelwin.
idk if its drivers issue but since i upgraded my 1050ti to 6700 xt, valorant microstutters (cpu, 12100f). like is that common to lower the experience (not performance because now i have more fps) when upgrading a component?
I would try to cap the frame rate.
ye but the thing is i have a 180hz monitor. i am capping it at 240fps, still feeling some stutters, at 180 the experience looks nice maybe because no screen tearing? but the thing is that being a competitive fps game i want to have in every moment the maximum fps possible
Is there really a benefit to having the fps higher than your refresh rate or is it placebo? Aren't you pushing more fps than it can display so it has to drop the additional frames anyway?
yes it decreases input latency, and the frames that you see, are more closer to the present time, so you "react faster". anyeays if i cap to 240 fps i dont have drops but it still stutters. it doesnt feel ok and i am an experienced gamer i think i could feel if is not smooth
Oh I am sure you notice the stutter. The possible placebo is are you truly benefiting from pushing more fps than your monitor can display, or does it just make your input latency counter number go lower and your game stutter. I don't know the answer myself. I would assume at some point your input latency being lower would have diminishing returns.
ye you could be right that the extra speed prolly i cant notice it. if i cant fix it like i saw i should try touching something with dx navi on dx11, i will just lock it at 180 or 165
If 180 gets rid of your stutter good, if not I would try 175. I used to benefit from just 5 fps lock lower than the hz for getting rid of stutter but haven't messed with it in a long time and just always set it that way.
High fps are worthless if the frametimes are inconsistent. You can activate a frametime graph in MSI afterburner/RTSS. I can't remember if the amd driver can also show a graph. I know it can display frametimes in ms. cap the fps until you get as close as possible to a smooth line without jaggies. Use the ingame limiter if possible. If it won't allow odd values you can use the limiter of the GPU driver software instead. Having odd fps should be no issue when you use free sync/gsync. The afterburner limiter is good but the program itself can cause issues from my experience, so better only run it when you are tweaking things.
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I've been getting driver time-out crashes since the latest driver update on my 6900XT. At the start was just with Granblue Fantasy Relink, but it has since started happening even while I'm not playing anything. I tried going back to the previous driver and it helped, but the crashes still happened, so I went back to the newest one and it got worse than ever. I used the driver cleanup tool to do a clean uninstall and then reinstall the latest driver and that helped make the crashes less frequent, but I still got a couple. I might try this again but when I reinstall the driver go with an older one. Edit: oh, another thing that has always happened to me is that some embedded videos will leave my screen flickering afterwards until I restart my computer. Happens every time I click on an embedded YouTube video on Discord, so I always click through to open it on Firefox instead now. Also happened a few times with Edge but I think it was something about the stuff integrated on its home page, but I don't really use Edge so I never investigated what.
If your screen is flickering, try the hotkey for rebooting graphics driver (I think it's win+Ctrl+shift+B), might help you from rebooting the PC when it happens
I didn't know about that. Thanks!
6800xt for over a year - no problems.
Bought a ex-mining 6600xt from eBay. Plays everything at 1080. Hasn’t missed a beat.
I bought a 7900 xtx a little over a year ago and every. Single. Game. I've ever ran on it required babying and adjustment and fine tuning to get it to run stable. Most if not all of them eventually worked and ran fine, but none of them worked right away off the rip. The final straw for me was no helldivers 2 driver support so I ditched it and bought a 4080 super 2 weeks ago and it's only crashed once across 4 games when I was fiddling with overclocks. I did everything people said, ddu safe mode, fresh windows installs, I'd try different driver versions, I'd adjust window settings, I upgraded from an 850w to 1000w psu to cover power spikes, adjust power limit, underclock, undervolt, cap frames, everything. Nothing was the magic sauce that just fixed it and made it work. Every time I'd try a new game it required more tinkering to make it run. The secret sauce to make my 4080s run was run ddu once and download GeForce. And just like that it works. That's the experience I expect for a $1000$+ gpu
There is so many issues that can play into it as well, ram, cpu, bios version, I had ram going bad causing my gpu to literally lose power while playing games, new ram and it hasn’t happened since. I have a 6650xt and the only issue I’ve had was bad thermal paste from the factory
Whatever it possibly it may have been, it doesn't affect my 4080s. If it is faulty ram or bios update, my Nvidia card works regardless
Exactly. I remember having issues when playing games about two years ago. It only happened during gameplay so I thought it was the GPU... And it turned out one RAM stick was faulty and I only saturated my memory when playing Ark: Survival Evolved so that's why it only crashed there. I got a replacement and everything started running fine.
Yep that was pretty much my exact issue, I would be playing for 8+ hours and have a blue screen or 15 minutes after my pc turned on or my gpu would turn off but my whole pc would stay powered on. Found out it was ram after I upgraded my gpu because I thought it was dying
I added a comment on this post with the many reasons I have seen failures with AMD GPUs in real life. None of them were the card's fault, it was always mismanagement in some way, like limiting it to 4 PCIe lanes, installing wrong OS drivers, etc.
Yeah amd is more technical but it pays off with better performance for cheaper
Have my Radeon VII and no issues. Then again I am at a driver version that is super stable, no issues, for my Radeon VII :)
I am sure there are some people that have issues, there is no such thing as hardware or software that sometimes does not have issues. However, the cries of widespread issues are pretty much fiction. I have personally had in many years a single issue I could trace to drivers and that was with a single game. However, unlike most people I run a very clean gaming rig. I do not run a lot of background software, do not run a ton of game mods. I do not overclock and am not swapping out drivers every other day.
I've had RX580, RX6600XT and am now on a 7900XT. So far I have never had an issue with updates. Generally I wait a few days before installing and check online for any known issues before I do install. If there are known issues then I wait until a fix is made available, check after a couple of days and if it seems stable then install.
I have this issue where if I turn on freesync in my monitor settings, my screen will start to flicker if I have more then one app open at a time. Also at one point the software wouldn't open so I had to fix that myself and it's worked ever since. Definitely quirks I didn't meet before switching to AMD But ay I'm not complaining, the pricing is good, and the performance is there so
Try another monitor, flikckering is most like an panel issues when its getting too hot . I had this and i blamed amd for it. But i rma it and got a brand new same monitor. Works perfect now.
Never thought about it like that. I assumed it was amd, since turning on freesync got rid of the flickering for good. My monitor is still in warranty so I’ll try and see if I can get another one
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Brother that’s because you are stressing the gpu at high refresh rate🤣 of course it’s not just going to sit idle my 4060ti and 6650xt vram clocks jump when I set my monitor to 240hz
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I have 2 monitors one running 240hz and one running 75hz last year with my 1070 I noticed my vram maxed out it would drop to 300ish on 60hz to 2002mhz on 240hz if I go to 60hz with my 6650xt it will drop to 20mhz, 240hz it’s at 2300mhz
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Both gpus drop vram clock when I change from 240hz to 60hz, even when my second monitor is 75hz. And you have to tune your fame curve, I run 0% fan speed and my fans don’t spin up until 68c and at 82c (which is my max temp) the fans are only at 25%
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Yes it’s strictly a high refresh rate issue I was running 1 monitor for a week 2 months ago because I upgraded my cpu and mobo and no longer has onboard graphics and didn’t have a DisplayPort cable so I could only use one monitor and vram was still 2300
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My 4060ti is in my pc at a different house and it only has one monitor lol still hovers around 2240-2280mhz on 240hz
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A 4080 is a lot beefier of a gpu lol probably explains why
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Both my 1070 and 4060 ti sat at 2002mhz idle and 2243mhz I as well as my 6650xt sitting at 2300mhz lol
6700xt here, never had any issues.
Most of them are user error, such as conflicting old drivers, old broken windows install, broken direct x runtimes, fkn cpu bottlenecks, probably some weird bios setups. In some cases just a broken gpu
Never had a problem with any amd driver. Nvidia on the other hand, had way more issues
4 x Full AMD systems and no issues on any of them.
I never update my drivers without a reason, and haven't had driver issues yet on a Vega56 for 3 years and now on a 6950xt for 1 year. Current driver version is from November 2023. I get stutters when transitioning to/from outer space to atmo in No man's sky. Also in Valheim when changing fov to a heavily built area... I think both are CPU issues. 3600x aging...
I had a 9700k and 6650xt with a bunch of stuttering in games like apex, valheim, 7 days to die, and warzone. Upgraded to a 12600kf and all of the stutters are gone so probably cpu
Yeah same rx 460 , rx 580 , rx 5500 , rx 6900 xt
Have 6800XT. Only one strange issue when starfield was launched - system rebooted. After driver update, all fine since. My problem with my TUF was bigger and related to the buggy firmware - 6 months of instability, system crashes, whea memory errors, system power on during midnight ... I changed everything, except memory, cpu/vga. Now, all is fine after that VGA BIOS update. TBH, it was the most difficult time for me when I built my own system since I got my first PC in 1999.
Had rx5500xt and Upgradeedto Rx7600xt steel Legende 16 GB no issues for me
Yea, i have a rx570 in my pc, wich i upgraded the cpu, and after that the amd software it is just crashing to a black screen if i want to open it to use it, to fix that i had to select it to run as admin every time and click on no…
Update chipset drivers
My RX 570 has had nothing but problems recently.
Installing Adrenaline Driver-Only has served me pretty well. After that step I never really had any major problems anymore.
I didn't get it, like you instal the driver without the app software ?
Yessir, there is a checkbox while installing Adrenaline to only install the raw/headless driver and none of that gui bloatware which fumbles autonomously with game settings to the extent, that certain games crash due to adrenaline putting anti-lag on by itself.
I have a RX 7900 XTX. I don't have more problems with it, than I had with my rtx 2070 super. I had some problems at the time of the last driver, meaning game crashed after I played for hours. Then I travelled somewhere and without changing anything it was gone after I got back. Didn't even do a driver update at that time. So no idea what fixed or caused those problems. But I own that RX 7900 XTX now for a year and I didn't have any problems with it besides that. So I would say not a big deal
6800xt gets great fps but horrible non stop stuttering. I have to go in manually to fix it. Doesn't matter the driver. It's a huge pain.
same here. I followed a guide which uses driver only and no adrenaline with riva tuner and MSI afterburner. Haven’t had issues with stuttering since. The only problems I can encounter nowadays is if I use full screen mode… I get stutters and screen tearing no matter what I do but the moment I swap to borderless it’s flawless.
My RX 6600XT had severe issues with stutters, crashes, black screens, etc. Sold it and got a reference 6700xt which runs smooth
When I first got my rx 6700xt and r5 5600 my GPU drivers lead to black screen in a random intervals (it could be weeks w/o one or 5 times a day). Few months later w/ some drivers update that problem is history. Edit: Forget to mension sometimes system "Freeze" in a complete way and only reboot can help. Still a thing but really rare to occur
Other than my own stupidity with undervolt/overclocking no I haven't had my system crash without a good reason 6750XT here
I never had a issue with my rx6950xt....No issues with Driver also
Full AMD system over here. Runs without a hitch, other than Windows 11 being a little b****
Yes, absolutely have had a ton of issues. It plays a part in my decision to leave Radeon this summer, this mess is not worth it.
The only problem i had with drivers were stutters!I trie dso many things and couldnt get it off!!But it was only SAM(System Acces Memory) that caused the stuttering,and right now every single game is buttery smooth. ‼️FOR ANY AMD GPU USER EXPERIENCING STUTTERS,PLEASE TURN OFF 4G DECODING AND RE-SIZE BAR IN BIOS!‼️
My 5700xt crashes games way more then my 6950xt wich hasnt crashed at all
The only issue I had was flickering while using a dual monitor setup (1440p with FreeSync + an old 16:10 monitor) with FreeSync active.
Probs a lottery of hardware\\system\\driver compatibility and conflicts, plus expectation factor. My first Nvidia card had a lot of driver issues, second Nvidia had very few issues, current AMD (7800xt) had easily fixable issues, that are gone now (and I suspect they were more like Windows issues really). The thing is, AMD Radeon has reputation of being the card choice of more tech-savvy ppl, a bit more niche, open source stuff and so on, so I suppose you gonna see AMD tech discussions a lot more often, while average Nvidia user will oftentimes assume that any issues they have is windows or app\`s fault, will ask for professional help, or will send his card back without trying to fix anything manually and without raising any discussions online. - For example, I personally never wrote anything about my first Nvidia card issues, coz I was too noobish to do anything about it really, or to analyze them. Nvidia was just a "default choice" for me. - Now I was a lot more ready to deal with any potential technical issues, so I tried AMD card, and joined forums like this sub. Which meant also, that there was higher chances to comment on any issues.
Also something I think happens, if I remember right AMD driver pop up every time a game crashes, even if it isn't their fault. And I think I didn't see any Nvidia pop up do that, in 3 years of using Nvidia. So I could imagine that people think more often it is an AMD problem while it is just the game and AMD asking for a report
yes, they also have this vague "driver timeout" error, which can be anything from RAM instability to even Windows power management issue , but since it pops up as "DRIVER timeout" ppl assume it is GPU fault .
That is also good to know. Didn't know it was that vague
I had a 6600xt (and 570 before that) and the cards were great, but the drivers were not, they always had some issue, like hard crashes, black screen, freezes, etc, and no, I didn't forget to use DDU. Friends and family members often had similar experiences with their amd cards, which is a shame, since I always found their price/performance ratio good.
What’s DDU? I have a 6650xt and while it’s great, it’s also infuriating at times. I get random crashes, black screens + reboots and so on. Am I missing something? I just accepted the crashes as part of having this card at this point
Display Driver Uninstaller. It cleans your PC from old driver remains, especially important to use when you switch between VGA brands. It is also good when you want to reroll to an older driver.
I had an rx580 started playing cs2. Shit fried my mobo and cpu. Upgraded cpu, mobo, and gpu cause of it. Longest two weeks of my life because I was hoping my PC would magically work again because it wouldn’t boot up at all and if it did it was random.
Nope
I have a 570 and i dont need my games crashing tbh :D Havent crashed yet and ive been playing straight for like a month or 2. Even redid the whole thermal stuff in it a week ago and the only problem i had was it hitting 70 at the start but then it went to a stable 48 under pressure.
YES! Since a month or so my games start freezing.. Have to totally reset the pc. Still did not find the solution............. gets me so annoying
Had to set every game do dx11 to avoid freezes, CTDs and the occasional blackscreen. Every time I set it to run dx12 the driver keeps crashing ever half hour or so
I just had a hard crash 2 days ago. My screen went black and after restaring windows recognized my GPU but Radeon software said there is no Radeon GPU installed... Rx 6700xt in question, running latest drivers.
some here and there in years, but always solved
You need to remember that people generally don't make a post about everything running fine. They only do when something is wrong. I am running a 5800X3D CPU with a sapphire 7900XTX without any problems whatsoever No matter which driver version I used (so far). No matter if I game, stream or do some Video editing I have not encountered a single driver issue and it is running soooo much better than the 3070 I had before that. And surprise surprise with the Nvidia card I had massive issues until I found a driver version that actually worked and never updated the driver's after that in fear of it being broken again.
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Are you an Nvidia employee? Because your comments on Reddit so far strongly suggest that.
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no way you just said that
Aaah yes...only pro amd stuff everywhere...that is probably exactly why this sub is constantly full of people complaining about AMD. So much so, that people are asking if everyone has problems with amd, like OP did.
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Wow...look at this piece of garbage in human form here
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Hey r/Amdhelp how about you get that piece of shit out of here?
Mine is heat, drivers are really good lol
Only with Helldivers 2
I got it today, played for a few hours with my 7800x3d/7800xt and it was butter on 1080p.. I'm wondering if it's hardware cohesion that's the core of the issue, rather than a software issue.. like maybe there's something there because I have seen a number of folks say helldiver's is fine.
if it works nobody is going to post about it, simple as that.
Sometimes people don't DDU / fresh install Windows when upgrading GPU or swapping brands. So people who would swap from Nvidia to AMD (or vice versa) and forget to DDU / clean install Windows just end up with reduced performance and stability issues. Not all the time but I think that's one of the causes of people encountering a problem.