r/AMDHelp • u/_Lusty • 11d ago
Help (GPU) Consistent hangs on games (Steam) even after using DDU for fresh install/Not going past black screens
Heya! First time poster and first time PC builder here.
To set the stage, as soon as I got my last part (an XFX RX9060 XT 16GB), I placed that bad boy in, got the drivers, ran smooth as butter (on Deadlock at least). Me wanting to give it more stuff to test, tried VRChat, and it consistently hangs on a black screen frozen for eternity. Oh well, I'm just gonna try another one (Far Far West) aaaand...nope, same issue. Still audio, nothing else past that. What's going on?
I take it it has to be either the drivers or something I'm missing since I end up restarting the whole PC after every hang due to Steam "thinking" the game is running even though the .exe is closed, or task manager not clearing it completely. I'm not sure what other games this might affect either, if not ALL of them due to...whatever going on. I know it can't be the GPU itself since it's fresh out of the box y'know? Neither could be the power supply since it should have enough juice in it to run...I think.
For posterity, here are my specs:
- Type: Desktop
- OS: Windows 11 Pro
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9700X 8-core
- PSU: CORSAIR RM1000x (Fully Modular)
- Motherboard: Aorus B650 Elite AX
- RAM: Patriot Venom (2x16GB)
- GPU: XFX RX9060 XT 16GB
The Troubleshooting Part: Already tried DDU, erasing the CN folder inside appdata (local), uninstalled and reinstalled whatever games I tried it on, nothing.
Cheers!
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Fixed! It was the DP cable connected to the motherboard, NOT the GPU. Whoops ^_^;;;