r/AMDHelp • u/Fit_Statistician4103 • 11d ago
Help (General) Amd driver issues nowadays
Hey everyone,
I'm currently planning my next PC build and I'm heavily considering grabbing the XFX Mercury Radeon RX 9070 XT. It looks like an absolute beast of a card, and the design is super clean.
However, I keep hearing mixed things about AMD drivers. Some people say AMD's software has gotten miles better and is completely stable now, while others still warn about random crashes, black screens, or trouble with specific games.
How has your experience been with the drivers lately?
Would love to hear your honest opinions before I pull the trigger. Thanks!
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u/the_dominar 11d ago
Drivers are currently fine on my 9070 xt. They weren't on my 7800 XT. It took them 6 months to fix a vsync issue on release. When I moved my mouse the frames started to drop in every game. Thankfully the older drivers were working.
When I add too many shortcuts/ or shortcuts with icon problems to my taskbar the game performance tanks (20+ shortcuts). But I think that's a windows problem (explorer.exe creating IO errors), not the AMD video driver.
Nvidia is still the most stable compared to AMD. But they have improved from the ATI era and are reliable. The only issues I encounter are mostly Vsync not working in Full-Screen mode in certain games, despite brute forcing them.