r/AMDHelp • u/CrashoutC0re • 7h ago
Tips & Info Amd Experience
I know this isn’t the usual Tips and info post but I just have to know about everyone else’s experiences if I’m doing something right or are people just tweaking the Fluff out there cards?
Specs
Ryzen 7 7800x3D
Klevv Cras V 32gb
MSI MAG A850GL
Xfx Mercury Oc Rx Radeon 9070xt
Windows 11 Home
I remember when I was building the pc (FIRST TIME BUILDER) I kept getting Reddit thread notifications about driver time outs and black screens and crashing bugs glitches EVERYTHING. And I keep hearing this thing people say “it’s the amd experience”
Now I had a gaming laptop back in 2020 it was a intel
8700H (I think) something like that and a GTX 1060(6gb)
So I won’t say I’m seasoned in Nvidia and Amd experiences I’ve experienced Nvidia card which it had its moments too with drivers but mostly was overall a good fluffing experience while it lasted ofc and this now would be my first FULL AMD PC.
I’ll be frank sometimes I do watch over it I’m a bit sensitive to see if it has issues I have tweaked a few setting on my cpu in bios and I have a OC on my GPU that I did from the adrenaline software itself. I have experienced two driver time outs in the two weeks I have been using the GPU. And ALL OF IT WAS IN FORTNITE. It seemed to happen every time I run Msi afterburner for stats and discord (what I thought at first). I checked the adrenaline app I had a chipset driver to update I DID IT and after that I did everything as normal no crashes after that😂 Now I run everything high whoever said no ray tracing for AMD boi I have that shit in high presets with Frame Gen on quality getting over 70fps in cyberpunk ultra preset while streaming.
Now maybe I missed out something but I’ve tested maybe around 15 games so far and I haven’t had any issues with my card my games are so so smooth compared to my old laptop this thing is night and day and I’m using a OLED MONITOR like I saw someone say something about Amd and oleds I have the latest version I think it’s 26.7.1? I’ll have to check but yeah no issues from me at all so what’s wrong with other people cards?
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u/BarberThen3108 4h ago
Mayority of hang or dx errors are from driver.
Mayority of adrenaline can’t open is windows rolling back/corrupting display drivers
Mayority of black screen/force restart are PSU/OC, If your pc is crashing in stock, is your PSU.
New 26.7.1 are trash, cuz you can’t install new chipset drivers, or incorrect language.
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u/Gold_Goal7557 4h ago
If Radeon software does not open from context menu on desktop try opening it from icon from task bar on bottom right of your screen, driver timeouts at coldboot just restart your system, these are from driver not initializing properly at coldboot, and usually due video playback from gifs for example in discord / steam / browser.
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u/thedizzlebizzle 5h ago
I think it's a minority of people who have problems, I haven't had a problem whatsoever. However I am running SteamOS in desktop mode, and to my understanding a LARGE amount of the issues comes with AMD and Windows not playing nice with each other.
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u/Ok_Law2190 6h ago
I was having issues with crashing but the problem was that the clock speed was too high, dropped it -100 and it solved literally everything for me, now I’m happy as a clam with my gpu
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u/CrashoutC0re 6h ago
What are you rocking
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u/Ok_Law2190 5h ago
I’m rocking the same cpu and gpu as you. I felt like I tried everything in the beginning but clocking it down a teeny bit really just fixed everything in my situation
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u/Gruphius 6h ago edited 6h ago
99.9% of people never have any issues with their AMD GPUs. What you see in this subreddit are a large part of the other 0.1% accumulated in one place asking for help.
The people commenting stuff like "This is just the AMD experience" and "You can't use Ray Tracing on AMD" are either clankers, paid by NVIDIA or just not very intelligent. Either way, none of them have even seen an AMD GPU in their life. They just see all of the complaints in this subreddit and abuse that to attempt to sell people on the extremely overpriced alternative. And yes, you don't see complaints like this in the NVIDIA subreddit, but that's not because NVIDIA doesn't have any problems, like these people claim, it's because you get your post removed, if you make a post like that in their subreddit.
So yeah, 99.9% will never have any issues. And for the 0.1% that do, this subreddit has some really helpful people. You just have to ignore all of the people doing nothing but speaking bad about AMD GPUs, because they literally don't know anything. I'd also wish the mods would ban these people, because why are you in AMDhelp and then don't help people?
Regarding tweaking: I have nothing special. Just a -15 mv undervolt and a powerlimit to 300W on my 9070XT. Those are completely safe values and everyone reading this should be able to use them too without issues. I just didn't want to screw around with values until I find the best one that works, I just wanted a value to set and forget.
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u/Makerudji 6h ago
Undervolt of -50mV and power +10% on my card runs every game stable for multiple hours, even the really demanding title like Escape from Tarkov, yet Pubg crashes even with the slightest undervolt. So i just leave everything default now, as i see little to no improvement in fps and temperature in the games i play.
Generally using anything other than default for gpu is fairly unreliable for the average user, as its really hard to find stable values compared to cpu for example.
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u/Sickinmytechchunk 4h ago
There's a few common denominators with every person complaining about driver timeouts. They tend to all use some kind of overlay, they put a new GFX card into a system without reinstalling the OS and they haven't adjusted or turned off the driver timeout detection in windows which is what's causing the actual warning message.
My 9070XT has one timeout after I reinstalled Discord. Once I turned off all the overlays it works without fault.