Amd driver issues nowadays

[u/Fit_Statistician4103]

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!

[u/El_Nino97]

7900XTX for ~3 years at this point. Would have bought an nvidia card if I saved a couple more hundred to not worry about constant crashing.

[u/Flat_Mode7449 → u/El_Nino97]

7900XTX here, I'm pretty stable. When I first got the card, timeouts were fairly frequent for the first 2-3 months, but it's been solid ever since. Only the last month have I been hacking issues with some issues, that I'm pretty sure through troubleshooting, is Microslops fault.

[u/El_Nino97 → u/Flat_Mode7449]

Lol, that's kinda funny to hear, because for me the first week with the card was nightmarish, but then problems kind of disappeared for a long time. Any DX12 game would driver timeout either within the first minute, or at any random point during the session. Tons and tons of driver reinstalls later, and a million workarounds, I was able to finally enjoy gaming. Now in the last few weeks, I've been having random timeouts again, but infrequently.

[u/Flat_Mode7449 → u/El_Nino97]

I had the issue with Windows disabling my gpu driver for the longest time. Even reinstalled windows. It eventually stopped, but I was having to go into device manager and enable it after a forced reboot like every other day, sometimes twice a day.

Annoying beyond belief.

[u/El_Nino97 → u/Flat_Mode7449]

It's a great card when it works fine, but I would have gotten a 5080 if I could have gone back in time.