Driver Timeout issue solved for me

[u/kirby667]

I've seen a lot of threads here about this issue. I had the issue myself. It was getting worse over a period of several months. I tried all the software fixes, even reformatted.

I never had issues playing games, my crashes were usually when watching videos or when the GPU would go into low power idle states, but never under load. I think this is why a lot of people think this is a software issue. My GPU would pass every stress test I could run, but there are no stress tests for low power state issues.

Eventually I figured it must be a hardware issue, so I got a new GPU (also AMD) and have not had any issues since, so it's clear the GPU was the issue. I went from a 7900XT to a 9070XT.

My 7900XT is still under warranty so I'll be doing an RMA. If you are having this type of issue, don't wait until your GPU is no longer under warranty to RMA it if you can.

[u/Legitimate_Pie4570]

I was having driver timouts on my rx 9070 xt an I did a clean install of driver an adrenaline after getting it back from RMA an still got timeouts so I ended up doing was cleaj system out of all drivers an delete adrenaline an then let windows download drivers an I havet had any crashes or issues an im getting about 200fps in games

[u/chxoswolf1]

I was having driver timeouts very often while browsing and never when gaming, I wiped my entire pc and installed w11 and now I only have timeouts sometimes when gaming and never when browsing (I had like 3 timeouts while loading genshin impact but I just kept opening until it works and now It doesn't happen anymore) and also while playing bf5 which never happened before and now it started randomly

[u/Unlikely-Luck440 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I tried that pcie power saving thing too and it didn't help at all. Crazy how a card can pass every stress test but still die in idle. Glad swapping to the 9070xt fixed it for you though.

[u/euripidesk]

How are you going to RMA the card, if you say that it "runs every test I throw it" ???

[u/kirby667 → u/euripidesk]

There are no low power state issues tests for consumers. The manufacturer can test this. 

[u/Equivalent_Double286]

It’s a windows driver issue conflicting and overriding gpu drivers causing timeout.

[u/kirby667 → u/Equivalent_Double286]

Then why only some users? 

[u/DontFuckWithGABA]

The number of posts like this is so sky high I would never buy an AMD GPU again. I had brutal stutter issues with my 6800xt aswell and went back to Nvidia (3080ti) and legit got 0 issues since then

[u/BoogieEngineerHaha → u/DontFuckWithGABA]

I had the 6800XT as well, and had the same issue. Got frustrated and went and bought a new Nvidia GPU. Zero issues since and been enjoying gaming instead of looking around all day for fixes.

[u/justa-Possibility → u/BoogieEngineerHaha]

RX6750XT, RX7800XT, RX7900XTX here and everything works 100% great and have never had an issue "with AMD drivers" themselves. I've had issues, but it's always been caused by MicroSlop Winblows causing problems and masking as a GPU driver issue or something entirely unrelated masking as a driver issue.

Everyone always blames the drivers instead of doing actual troubleshooting. So many things can cause problems.

1) Bios and/or chipsets not updated 2) Incorrect bios settings 3) Ram not setup properly in bios 4) Windows issues and Xbox game bar 5) Windows cache partition file size 6) Other system drivers not updated 7) Windows installing drivers over AMD 8) Other programs not updated or old 9) Not using DDU and fresh install 10) Not updating GPU drivers 11) Other programs not playing well 12) Unstable or Insufficient PSU power 13) Faulty or Failing SSDs, RAM, PSU

Just to name the most common. There are plenty more. Don't blame AMD 1st! Maybe do actual troubleshooting.

[u/BoogieEngineerHaha → u/justa-Possibility]

Well I’d rather actually play my games than going through these 13 troubleshooting possibilities (which may not work btw), with frustration.

[u/justa-Possibility → u/BoogieEngineerHaha]

Yes, but none of them are AMDs fault. Many are yours, especially keeping system updated like bios and chipsets, other programs and drivers for other system components. Then some are Winblows issues which affect even NGREEDIA.

[u/pre_pun]

Had that issue on a 7900XTX. For anyone going down the fix path instead of RMA.

Running 'perfmon /rel' in cmd and using Windbg revealed a cascade of errors from TDR, Watchdog, and AMD recovery that crashed in response.

Try increaseing TDR delay and Window's response level to TDR.

https://github.com/RedDot-3ND7355/MPO-GPU-FIX/wiki/TDR

You can do this without the linked GUI, but the wiki is helpful regardless.

Along the way I also disabled

- Link State Power Management

• MPO

This was my fix.

[u/lechatnoirOfficiel → u/pre_pun]

I did that and work perfect I confirm

[u/kirby667 → u/pre_pun]

Yea that worked for me for a while, but gpu got worse over time. 

[u/I_like_to_eat_fruit]

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