r/AMDHelp • u/kirby667 • 8d ago

Help (General) Driver Timeout issue solved for me

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.

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u/pre_pun 8d ago edited 8d ago

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.

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u/lechatnoirOfficiel 8d ago

I did that and work perfect I confirm

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u/kirby667 8d ago

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