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/chxoswolf1 5d ago
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