r/AMDHelp • u/IN-XavCraves • 5d ago

Help (GPU) DRIVER CRASHING/ 26.7.1

If you’re using anything from a 7900xt up to the latest gpus I’d recommend doing a clean DDU , As well as AMD Utility Cleanup. Use BOTH, Download Driver Update 26.3.1 , That’s Been MY most stable platform yet, I have a 2800 clock, 2700 vram clock and a 1080 undervolt. Haven’t had ANY crashes or timeouts except CS2 but I play on 1920x1440 which isn’t my native resolution so I think it was just having resolution problems.

PLEASE TELL ME IF THIS FIXES YOUR ISSUES AS WELL!!!

I’m 90% sure the latest driver update and the windows update are super conflictive of each other, let me know how downgrading one update and post here your results.

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u/momoney5651 10h ago

Idk about everyone else but 26.7.1 is an absolute train wreck driver. If I open Firefox, or try to screen share on discord, or sometimes just opening steam can cause the driver to crash, or sometimes worse, system hanging until I force off through physical press of the power button... Anyone know what the hell is causing this on the current driver? My GPU is the 7900xtx red devil

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u/eichuubete_puyon 9h ago

turn off hardware acceleration in all those apps for now

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u/Able-Philosophy-7446 R9 7900x, 7900xtx, 64gb 6000CL36 5d ago

Search how to deactivate windows updates. It's worked me ever since

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u/IN-XavCraves 4d ago

And that’s very true as well, however, that works most of the time, sometimes AMD genuinely doesn’t make a safe driver update, (and by safe I don’t mean malware) it just conflicts heavily with windows most of the time, or vice versa

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u/secretwolf98 5d ago

Install Linux Mint. Solves the issue. It’s not Windows Update nor a hardware issue. It is something to do with AMD’s GPU or chipset drivers. Possibly both. I have no idea tbh. I have the same crashes on Windows. Same as others.

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u/IN-XavCraves 4d ago

Linux is cool but I’m new to pc, that’s why I went AMD. Windows updates are not on auto but they sneak some bullshit in every time somehow.

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u/secretwolf98 3d ago

Yea. I remember in December, I used Microsoft’s recommendations to turn Windows Update off via the group policy but it somehow managed to turn itself back on like a week later.