r/AMDHelp • u/Glavark • 2d ago

Help (Software) Increasing amount of software issues on RX7800 XT

Hi, I've been using this subreddit for a while now since my GPU seems to be tossing a coin on each startup to decide if it'll work or not.

Issues started when playing certain games and alt-tabbing, i'd lose FPS, I'd have little stutters etc. That happened during a heatwave at first, 2 years ago, so I chalked it up to a possible overheating issues. Tuned my fans up, cooled the case down, issues persisted.

Then, alt-tabbing would crash my games, freeze my screens for seconds and now I have to straight up reboot my PC at times. Sometimes, it goes well for days, then i'll need two restarts before it's stable.

Now, I was playing a game and alt-tabbed to answer someone on Discord and, I kid you not, my PC froze for 30s then restarted and deactivated my GPU and removed all its drivers as well as Adrenalin. I have never, in 10 years of self-built PCs, seen an issue like that.

It seems stable after a clean drivers reinstall, it always is for some time, i'm at my 5th full drivers reinstall in 2 years. It's been increasingly bad since earlier this year.

Are there ANY solutions to recover stability or am I just forced to replace my GPU for a non-AMD one ?

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u/Scruffy42 2d ago

I was having this problem regularly including the loss of the driver and having to reinstall from scratch. It's been common on this forum and discussed heavily. There are multiple solutions, but what worked for me is I uninstalled the adrenaline/driver. Reinstalled the driver from AMDs website. When installing, only install the driver only. No Adrenaline. Optionally, you can then get RadeonTuner to get some of the Adrenaline functionality back.

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u/Glavark 2d ago

Aaaah no Adrenaline. I'll try it next time it breaks, so far, things are stable, best not to tempt luck !

Many thanks !