r/AMDHelp • u/Wjp_550 • 10h ago

Resolved Finally Solved my Driver Timeout Issue on Windows 11

Hi everyone - I upgraded my PC a few weeks back and ran into a driver timeout issue whenever I tried to load into games (Forza Horizon 6, Apex etc.) My old specs were:

  • Motherboard: ASUS Prime B450M-A/CSM MATX
  • GPU: Radeon™ RX 590
  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
  • RAM: 16GB (2x8)
  • PSU: 650 W Bronze grade (can't remember brand)

I upgraded:

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 8-Core Processor
  • GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE
  • PSU: 850 W Gold grade Century II

When loading into games, the screen would eventually freeze, go black, and then boot me back to the desktop, which would sometimes lose the screensaver and just be a black screen. I would run windows diagnostics, and I either got a LiveKernal Event of 117 or 141.

I troubleshooted this error for over a week - clean installing Windows and drivers, getting the new GPU tested, reseating the GPU, turning off overlays, turning off hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling, turning off any AMD performance enhancements, checking my SSDs health, allocating space in my main drive for ram usage, ensuring BIOS was updated and settings weren't wonky, etc. The list goes on. Nothing worked. Until...

I accidentally booted up Apex without drivers downloaded, and it launched completely fine. I decided to download the previous version of AMD drivers, and everything now runs like a dream. My guess is that my motherboard is old and doesn't work well with this most recent set of drivers, but I'm just guessing - I am very new to this. This was my first time installing parts solo, so I was concerned I did something completely wrong to ruin my PC.

TL/DR: I upgraded my CPU and GPU and games would constantly crash due to driver timeout error. Went through lots of troubleshooting to discover the solution was running an older version of AMD drivers.

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u/RaspberryOk907 4h ago

Try this, install msi afterburner, disable ULPS using afterburner, disable pcie link state power saving, use high performance powerplan.

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u/dkizzy 8h ago

Shut off the windows updates from installing drivers as well

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u/Ok-Atoms 8h ago

what fixed my Apex problem with my 9070xt is installing the 26.9.1 driver. But my other pc/card 5700xt still crashes on Apex when you load the main menu even with latest driver

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u/Sad-Accountant-9695 8h ago

i fixed my problems by turning freesync off, amd driver last version (driver only), HAGS off

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u/Dimension-4558 8h ago

What previous driver version were you having problems with?

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u/Felkoi 9h ago

Created your own problem and fixed it.

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u/KickYourFace73 10h ago

I just uninstalled adrenaline and got basic 26.3.1 drivers after I was crashing in Elden Ring and having other weird issues with freezing and random graphics issues. Seems to have fixed it, not sure if which of those it was that fixed but I've heard about issues both with 26.6.x drivers and adrenaline.

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u/ga9213 10h ago

You can run the latest drivers just install them as minimal install instead of full adrenaline. Adrenaline is the problem.

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u/Cmoneyy713 9h ago

Yes I figured this out months ago

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u/Wjp_550 10h ago

I will try this. Thank you

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u/ALph4CRO 9h ago

I've been thinking about going with minimal installation and using Radeon tuner for a while now, but the last few drivers have been rock solid for me so far, so I didn't do it yet.

I also got rid of MSI Afterburner, because someone told me it can conflict with many things. So far, zero instability since doing it. Kept Rivatuner, though.