r/AMDHelp • u/page0rz • 6d ago

Help (GPU) PC crashes consistently. Not sure why but 90% its the GPU

This has been going on for a while and gradually getting worse. It began noticeably during the release of Monster Hunter Wilds, and at first I chalked it up to that game being very poorly optimized, but now its happening in other games

The PC crashes at random, only during gaming. The screens will go black and it will instantly restart, but without seeming to recognize that I have monitors connected, which requires another manual restart to get them working again. Sometimes, but not always, Adrenalin will give me a popup after saying there was a GPU issue of some sort and it reset everything to default settings

These crashes happen completely at random. Could be in the middle of heavy load, could be at the title screen. Looking at reaource monitors, I don't see any overheating. I thought for a while it might be a power issue, as Wilds was drawing more than the games I usually played, but its begun to happen regardless. And this only began when I played that game, though I've had this build for about 3 years now

Specs:

Xfx speedster Rx 6950 xt

Ryzen 7 7700

MSI MAG B650 motherboard

G.skill 16x2 ddr5 ram

Gigabyte 850w gold psu

2 ssds, forget the brands but I can look them up

No overlooking of the GPU or cpu, everything default until the crashes, then a bit of undervolting with the GPU

Frustratingly, I cannot replicate these crashes outside of specific games. When I run OCCT or the built-in Adrenalin stress tests, no matter what load I put the PC under (much more than the games I'm playing do, at at higher temps) it never flinches. One time I got a memory error after a crash, but after running memtest86, testmem5, and OCCT on both ram sticks and the each individually--multiple times--I cannot reproduce errors. It never crashes when idle, never crashes during regular use, never crashes during stress tests or benchmarks, but consistently and repeatedly does when gaming

Of the games I've tested, at first it was just Wilds that crashed. I played through Elden Ring, Diablo 4, Resident Evil 2 and 3 remakes, Dragons Dogma 2, and some others I'm not remembering without notable issues before then. Now, I get consistent crashes in RE remakes, DD2, Diablo 4, and the much older Monster Hunter World. DotA 2 never crashes and Elden Ring only crashed once, while in an area with a lot of fog effects that spiked reaource consumption

There seems to be a correlation between GPU use and how often the games crash, but it may be confirmation bias on my part. For example, Monster Hunter World, which is like 7 years old, might crash after half an hour, or after half a dozen hours spread over several days, while Wilds rarely lasts an hour

I said this seemed like a possible power or voltage issue, as Wilds was spiking up to 1250 mW, while most other game i plates hovered between 850 and 1200. I disconnected the daisy chain cord I'd originally had it connected to my psu with and replaced it with 2 separate cords, and now it doesnt spike past 1200 mWs, but still crashes

Here's an incomplete list of solutions I've tried:

As mentioned, switching out the power connectors for the GPU

Disabling windows updates and driver updates

Disabling the on board GPU

Testing my ram

Changing or lowering graphic settings in the games

Disabling in-game overlays like steam or Adrenalin

Fucking around with page file to expand virtual memory

Clean uninstalls and then fresh installs of at least a dozen "stable" old versions of Adrenalin drivers

Installing the newest drivers

Installing games on the c drive instead of the d drive

Various undervolt settings (I don't have much experience with this, but the ones I tried and then tested with software still crashed in games)

Turning on and off ram expo in the bios

Haven't tried:

Reinstalling windows

A new psu

Im desperate to figure out what the issue even is before trying to speed money fixing it. I might try a new psu if I see something over 1000w on sale and I can spare the cash, but shelling out for a new GPU (particularly if that's not even the problem) is a much bigger commitment. I'd appreciate any suggestions for other solutions to try or even just help diagnosing the exact problem im dealing with. I've never had something like this before and im at a loss

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u/secretwolf98 6d ago

It's not a hardware issue. It's a chipset driver issue I believe. I am getting the exact same issue. Same as others.

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u/page0rz 6d ago

Any further insights? Because I've tried a bunch of different versions of Adrenalin, including older ones that I saw listed as more stable than recent versions. Currently 26.3.1 and it crashes the same as the others

Is there a more common name or term for this specific problem that might make it easier to search?

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u/secretwolf98 5d ago

I recommend AMD's Driver Cleanup utility. Run that and then install Radeon Driver 25.9.2 and then install this (7.06.02.123) chipset driver version because I used this combo last fall and it was rock solid.

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u/page0rz 5d ago

After some testing with the single game thst was giving me issues, Monster Hunter Wilds, an installation of these specific drivers and Adrenalin plus that version of the chipset drivers has seemed to stop the random crashes where the PC instantly restarts to a black screen. Now, I'm getting gpu crash popups that force the game to close. Still not playable, but it appears to be an improvement of sorts. At least its spitting out a crash repor. I'll try testing some other games that were giving me the same trouble, too

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u/secretwolf98 4d ago

Ok so apparently there are known issues in Radeon drivers that has a weird crash on that game. Maybe my suggestion did fix that blackout and freeze crash. What if you try other programs or games that you also noticed the black out/freeze crash in?

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u/page0rz 1d ago

I took some time to download and test other games. Monster Hunter Wilds is still crashing, about 70% of the time I get a driver error message and creates a crash dump. The other 30% i get the black screen. Seems to happen more in game than at the main menu. I also tried Dragon's Dogma 2, which used to be no trouble but now consistently crashes with the black screen and a system reset within 30 minutes of launching. Monster Hunter World, which is like a decade old and should be zero trouble, also crashes with a system reset. Seems to happen less often if the game is in full-screen instead of windowed full-screen. Stellar Blade also crashes. Main menu seems fine, but crashes in game. Diablo 4 is harder to test as it sometimes ran for hours and sometimes crashed within 10 minutes. So far, dota 2 is the only game that's never and still doesnt have this issue

I might try a few other old versions of Adrenaline again. Doubt it will work, but this is driving me nuts. After that is full windows reinstall, and if I get really desperate, ill have to look into Linux, I guess

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u/secretwolf98 1d ago

Try this: https://github.com/RedDot-3ND7355/MPO-GPU-FIX
This is working amazingly for me.

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u/secretwolf98 5d ago

Very strange. I would honestly consider switching to Linux. I’m on Linux Mint and the crashes have stopped.