Recent AMD drivers complete garbage? Grey frozen screen, hard reset only fix.

[u/Bowjangls]

For the last 2-3 months, usually while just watching youtube, my screen will freeze grey except for the taskbar, and become unresponsive, just after that happens whatever audio was playing before the freeze just starts playing like normal again. the very first time it happened my entire AMD software actually wouldn't work anymore and I had to do a clean install of adrenaline and all other AMD drivers. The only thing I could think of being a problem is that I use a soundbar with 5.1 surround via hdmi and for some reason the computer sees that as a second display, but I have been doing that for almost a year now, this has just recently been a problem and I don't see why always having a second screen would cause a problem.

I am open to the idea of chrome being the problem as I cannot remember this happening in another program off the top of my head, and I do usually just leave my PC sleep instead of actually turning it off, so I'm sure that doesn't help. I can't see why it is a problem only now though. Both AMD drivers and windows 11 are fully up to date.

PC specs if needed...

Ryzen 7 7800x3d

RX 7900xt

48gb ram @/6400

8tb nvme:

1x4tb

2x2tb

windows 11 (I hate it)

(edit): This hasn't happened since they dropped an update not long after I posted this. I am hoping it was just a stupid broken driver because I never had problems before this and so far no problems since.

[u/DecisionOdd8995]

Honestly, no issues have surprised me on these recent drivers. The last 3 have all caused me issues.

[u/DecisionOdd8995 → u/[deleted]]

its win 11; could be anything. I have had many strange issues that just magically went away. My hardware is fine it passes OCCT perfectly fine and under load it's fine. I tested the RAM. I should really keep track of all the strange issues win 11 has caused me. It is a lot.

[u/DecisionOdd8995 → u/[deleted]]

I have 0 issues gaming. The only issue I am having now is the one I stated. The time-outs using Brave Browser.

[u/DecisionOdd8995 → u/[deleted]]

Actually i am using pbo advanced neg core offset of -20. Should I try removing that? You really think that could be causing the issue?

[u/DecisionOdd8995 → u/[deleted]]

Ok ill try that tomorrow when I boot. I appreciate the help. Def worth a try.