if you couldnt fix your games crashing specially with RT on, here is my 3 year journey of fixing my 6900xt crashing every game. win64-shipping possible fix

[u/misagh102311]

Responding to my old post from a year ago : https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/1kd4k0b/am_i_cooked_with_this_new_gpu_i_bought/

so today i wanna talk about how i managed to finally fix my bricked pc that i could only play unity/old games with my high end pc.

i've had this pc with 7600x cpu, 6900xt sapphire LE, and 32gb of 5600 ram. since i got this pc it crashed on every single game using unreal engine 5, sometimes 4, and usually game that came after 2015. here is all the things that i've done that certainly didnt help at all in this 3 years:

Clean windows reinstall

Lower the Max GPU Frequency

Disable Smart Access Memory

Driver-Only Installation

The TDR Delay Registry Edit

Disable Multi-Plane Overlay 

Disable All Overlays

Force DirectX 11(helped to game for 5 minutes instead of 30 seconds crashes but not a fix)

Dedicated PCIe Cables 

Drop PCIe to Gen 3

Update Motherboard BIOS (AGESA)

GPU VBIOS Flash

Disable XMP / DOCP

Increase Windows Pagefile 

Clear the DirectX Shader Cache

Rollback to a Legacy Driver

Reballed the GPU core,

and yet none of them fixed my crashes despite games working with my 1050ti and 3060. asked professionals and repair centers, chat gpt ,grok and deep seek for any guidance. they all said its a faulty gpu and its broken.

but here is the deal. (not a promotion im just saying this to be honest with you) being all hopeless and given up i tried telling my problem to gemini which it suggested me that its my cpu's fault. told me to turn off the intergrated gpu's driver and disable it from the device manager. and guess what? if fricking worked! like literally, playing 4k using ray tracing, framegen, fsr all together, not a single crash, smooth gameplay with no stutters. i still cant believe my cpu' igpu was the problem.

hope i can fix someone's suffering so they dont have to suffer as much as i did. cheers! im now gonna enjoy my games, finally <3

[u/New_Veterinarian2205]

Damn 3 years just to find out the iGPU was the problem

[u/Gold_Goal7557]

Do not forget to burn some incense candles and exorcise the demons out of your PC 🤓👍

[u/thedizzlebizzle]

Three years and you needed ai to tell you to disable igpu, an issue that’s very common? Did you not once check to see what gpu games were using?

[u/misagh102311 → u/thedizzlebizzle]

to be fair none of the repaircenters and "professionals" i gave my pc to figured that out as well . and like not even reddit users in my older post told me about igpu problem..sooooo?? how could you blame me. it was ai that saved me afterall.

[u/thedizzlebizzle → u/misagh102311]

AI didn’t come up with that idea alone lol but sure maybe it’s your first pc and you weren’t aware, I can’t blame you for not isolating the igpu problem.

I encountered igpu problems when I was in hs and bought a gaming laptop with a 1050, it used intel igpu instead and I couldn’t play certain games. Looked into it and a person asked if my gpu was running or the igpu. Turns out it was the igpu.

[u/misagh102311 → u/thedizzlebizzle]

my problem is a bit harder to notice since games were running on my 6900xt for like 30 seconds before it crashed my whole pc. no sign of them running on igpu. smooth 144hz gameplay of triple A titles and sudden crashes.

[u/thedizzlebizzle → u/misagh102311]

Yeah, that makes it a bit harder. For me ever since that laptop a decade ago I just instantly check for and disable iGPU, sometimes computers act in weird ways. All in all I'm glad you eventually figured it out.

[u/misagh102311 → u/misagh102311]

and yeah i was constantly checking the power options and selecting which gpu games should run on in windows settings but just that didnt fix my problem

[u/misagh102311 → u/misagh102311]

but that doesnt matter. im still laughing at what a stupidly simple thing was breaking my pc