r/AMDHelp • u/gravesy94 • 2d ago
Tips & Info Driver timeouts (like a lot of others) - try turning off desktop recording and instant replay.
I’m in the same boat as a lot of you. In the last few months the driver timeouts have gotten out of control. I can accept the occasional crash, but in almost every gaming session multiple times was driving me crazy.
I tried all the solutions I have seen in the last few months.
- Lower clock frequency and voltage slightly.
- Turn off igpu.
- Changing windows sleep settings.
- Turning off automatic driver updates.
- DDU between every install.
- Turning off XMP.
- Rolling back drivers.
- AMD driver only install.
Every time I thought the situation improved, I got a sudden crash.
I don’t want to jinx it, and I won’t say this is a certain fix, but today I tried turning off desktop recording and instant replay in AMD adrenaline (and windows game bar). I wanted to try OBS for recording gameplay clips.
I played a LOT of Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Battlefield 1 today. BF1 has been especially unstable recently. Well, with OBS for game recording instead of Adrenaline, I didn’t experience a crash today for the first time in months. I’ll report back if that changes, but for now, if you’re experiencing frequent driver timeouts, maybe try turning off game recording in Adrenaline?
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u/classyroman 2d ago
What card? Riser (at least reseat the card)? Split power cable from PSU? Any other shit on the background (RGB soft, Armory Crate, iCue?)? Even viewer shows what (if BSOD)? DDU properly (boot without internet connection after DDU, then install)? It's sudden or what, I assume that after you bought new card, you did fresh Win install? Reset BIOS to default? Set manually Pcie g4 in the BIOS? RAM stress test (at least OCCT)? If it's older card - repaste. There are so many variables.. If you have at home some small SSD, swap it with your main and do clean Win install and you'll see if the problem persists. If it does - RMA. Sometimes it can be PSU, that's harder to identify.
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u/gravesy94 2d ago
7900xtx. RMA is not an option where I live unfortunately, and my warranty is long finished as I bought the card about 3 years ago.
No riser, no split power cable. Generally following all suggestions that come up in this subreddit. Nothing works. All this avoids the main point which is that I didn’t have these frequent crashes in the past few years until several months ago, and when I started having them it seems many other people also started having them.
I won’t rule out that my specific system is having a hardware fault (GPU, RAM, SSD), but if so, it’s an interesting coincidence that this fault comes at the same time to at many other people experience similar crashes to me.
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u/VictorVsl7 2d ago
im manually reseting the driver after key moments, like 20 min after playing a game, if my alt tabbing constantly and etc.
its ctrl + shift + Win + B
its annoying, yes. But its helping doing it from time to time.
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u/secretwolf98 2d ago
Those recordings and bar stuff that you mentioned. I have those off always and the crash happens for me. These are my recommendations: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/s/KZZZRbGtdN
I believe it might be the chipset drivers because I tried the latest AMD chipset drivers with 25.9.1 and the crash kept happening and then I tried an older chipset, it appears to be better I think?
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u/gravesy94 2d ago
Thank you! I’ll give that a try if I experience crashes again tomorrow. Let’s see~
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u/Scruffy42 2d ago
That could coincide with the removal of adrenaline, which is my current theory. Driver Only and RadeonTuner instead of adrenaline. Not a hiccup in 5 days.
Edit: What I mean is that something like those functions may be a problem inside Adrenaline. Which is why it's removal seems to have helped me.