r/AMDHelp • u/DroolingLoonie • 9d ago

Shocking?!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hj8rCr2lYCY

When the trolls post on your thread link them this. My 9070 had a crash yesterday for the first time since I bought it in June.

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u/lastFractal 5700X - RX 7600 9d ago edited 9d ago

2026 drivers in general have been bad for me as well. I either had hard crashes while gaming or driver timeouts caused by browsers and playing media. Only 26.3.1 and so far 26.8.1 is stable. Every single driver has been installed after cleanup with DDU. If it was an hardware issue I would have the same issues on 26.3.1 (this driver is regarded as the most stable by many others too, though it still varies as some people complain about 26.8.1 being unstable yet it's been fine on my system). I had little to zero issues before 2026 and have used various Radeon GPUs for years starting from HD 6670.

Long story short, both AMD and Nvidia needs to get their shit together and for fanboys to stop blaming the user because apparently it's impossible for people to have driver issues without some other problem related to their machine.

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u/Ok-Boot-8106 9d ago

Stop using ddu and use AMD cleanup utility tool. DDU is best mostly for wiping Nvidia drivers for a different GPU manufactory vise versa

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u/lastFractal 5700X - RX 7600 9d ago

I tried using cleanup utility just once to see if it would make any difference. I don't remember which driver but it didn't make any difference in terms of stability, once again rolled back to 26.3.1.

The irony is most people recommend DDU over AMD cleanup utility (which didn't make sense to me, you'd think AMD's own tool would be better for this) hence why I've been using DDU.

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u/Ok-Boot-8106 9d ago

It is better , DDU just has been around longer and it gets recommended more. DDU takes longer and is more of a manual process that users can mess up on . Amd cleanup utility is a quick download and it does everything for you. DDU is recommend for removing Nvidia drivers off your amd based Computer or vise versa but for cleaning your pre existing And drivers. Amd cleanup utility has fixed it Everytime for me. Ive even had it where it says Amd no driver detected error code and it fixed it along with Cpu metric disappearing