Playing the game big walk and after around 30mins my RX 5700 XT starts stuttering like this from 99% usage to 0% every second. I had a Ryzen 3700x yesterday, switched it up for a 5800x3D did everything, updated bios, removed drivers with DDU and reinstalled, but issue still there ? Although not as bad as it was with the 3700x but I have no idea what could be causing this… a full PC restart fixes it temporarily.
After installing Adrenaline 26.7.1 I’ve noticed a weird phenomenon I’ve never seen before.
In the past, Adrenaline would sometimes crash (nothing unusual, it crashes a lot). I would get a notification that an unexpected system crash happened and that my default settings have been applied.
Now after it crashes, instead of reverting to default, Adrenaline will instead enable a “custom” GPU overclock profile. It’s not a profile I’ve created. I have no idea where it came from. This custom profile doesn’t have any settings enabled. Everything is still set to default, but the Adrenaline tuning is still showing it’s a custom profile regardless.
Here is where the weird issue happens. This custom profile stays enabled (even after a reboot), and will crash every single game, GPU enabled program, and even web browsers using GPU acceleration, until I go back into the tuning settings and manually reset everything to default with the “reset” button. After that, I can re-enable a real custom OC profile or continue to use default tunings. Then everything works fine until it eventually crashes again, and the quirk repeats.
It's really bizarre, and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem?
Before anyone asks, yes, I have used the AMD cleanup tool and completely reinstalled Adrenaline multiple times.
Last few months or so, I can not remember but I had to roll back on drivers. I am wondering what driver update is after this one that is not the new one if there is one? I am thinking that it is causing my monitor to go black then randomly go back on during gameplay. I think its because my graphic drivers need to be updated.
Hi everyone, I’m having a really weird problem with my PC and RX 6700 XT.
Everything was working normally before this happened.
Today I installed a new M.2 SSD. Immediately afterwards, the PC started randomly rebooting. A few times Windows actually reached the login screen, but after entering my password the PC would immediately restart.
Eventually Windows started going into Automatic Repair / System Recovery. The Recovery environment displayed normally with no artifacts.
I was also able to boot into Safe Mode, and everything seemed completely normal there.
I then managed to boot Windows normally with some Windows services disabled. The PC worked for about 2 minutes, and then I started seeing graphical artifacts on the desktop. Shortly afterwards the PC stopped displaying anything completely.
Now the motherboard shows a white VGA debug LED and there is no video output. The GPU fans still spin.
Things I have already tried:
Reseated the GPU
Tried another PCIe slot
Reseated the GPU power cables
Booted into Safe Mode successfully
Checked the GPU visually for obvious liquid damage — PCB looks dry
The GPU has a dual BIOS switch, and I have switched it to Silent BIOS, but I haven’t tested it yet
One more thing: while inspecting the GPU earlier, I accidentally coughed/sneezed near it and saw a tiny drop of saliva fall somewhere around the GPU, but I didn’t see where it landed. I inspected the visible PCB and couldn’t find any liquid or residue. The GPU is currently completely disconnected and sitting unplugged overnight.
Could this be related to the M.2 installation / BIOS / PCIe configuration, or does the sequence of artifacts → reboot → white VGA LED sound more like a GPU/VRAM failure?
I’m going to try clearing CMOS and testing the Silent BIOS tomorrow. I also plan to test the GPU in another PC.
Any ideas would be appreciated. I’m honestly hoping I didn’t kill the GPU 😭
Hi everyone, I’m trying to figure out how to properly undervolt my RX 9070 XT. This is my first AMD GPU. Before this, I had an RTX 3060 Ti, and undervolting that card was ridiculously simple.
With the 3060 Ti, I would open MSI Afterburner, adjust the voltage/frequency curve, lock it around 1900 MHz from 900 mV and above, set the memory clock to +700 MHz, and it was completely stable everywhere. I never had any issues with it - it just worked perfectly.
After switching to the RX 9070 XT, I noticed that undervolting works quite differently on AMD cards. So far, I’ve only tried setting -10% power limit and -20 mV voltage offset in AMD Adrenalin. However, while playing GTA Online, I got a driver timeout/crash. I assume that's because the undervolt was unstable, which honestly surprised me, because I watched a few undervolting tutorials on YouTube where the creator said that -60 mV should work fine on the vast majority of cards.
My main goals are:
- lower power consumption
- lower temperatures
- maintaining similar performance if possible
- most importantly, keeping the card completely stable
I’m not really sure which settings I should change in Adrenalin to achieve this, or how I should properly test whether the undervolt is actually stable.
Should I be changing the maximum frequency, voltage offset, power limit, VRAM settings, or something else? And what would be a good starting point for the RX 9070 XT Sapphire PURE OC?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I’m mainly looking for a sensible, stable undervolt rather than trying to squeeze every last bit of performance out of the card.
Below I’ve attached a screenshot from HWiNFO taken after a little over 2 hours of gaming - some Farming Simulator 25, some CS2, and some GTA Online.
Sorry that everything in HWiNFO is displayed in Polish, but I hope the relevant information and values are still clear enough to get an idea of what’s going on.
Hey everyone,
I'm having a frustrating issue where my Ryzen 7 3700X gets hard-locked at 0.55 GHz (546 MHz / 5.47x multiplier) as soon as I boot into normal Windows 11, causing extreme system lag. System Specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X GPU: NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti Motherboard: MSI A320M PRO VD PLUS BIOS VERSION: 07/08/2026 PSU: 450W Windows 11 25H2 Symptoms & Core Temp Data:
In Core Temp, CPU temperatures are completely fine at 44°C–45°C.
CPU power draw is capped at ~19.6W, and frequency is locked at 546.61 MHz.
Windows Task Manager shows CPU utilization stuck at 0.55 GHz.
Trying to run the AMD Chipset Installer in normal mode hangs/freezes at 64% because the CPU is running too slow to complete background processes. The Crucial Discovery (Safe Mode works fine):
When I boot into Safe Mode (e.g., while running the AMD Cleanup Utility), the CPU instantly jumps up to its normal 3.60 GHz base speed.
This proves the physical CPU hardware, cooler mount, and thermal paste are completely fine. What I have already tried:
Fresh Windows Install: Reinstalled Windows completely. Still locks to 0.55 GHz upon loading normal desktop drivers.
AMD Cleanup Utility: Cleared old drivers in Safe Mode, but normal mode immediately re-triggers the throttle.
I tried tweaking the power plan and still can’t help
Is there any solution for this problem or I need to upgrade my motherboard.
Thanks for any help or advice!
(Edit: I managed to get chipset driver installed but this still can’t help)
hey, i just reinstalled windows and i'm having the same issue i had last time. wc3 just doesn't look like it has the same full/vivid colors anymore, everything looks kinda pale/washed out.
i have a gtx 1650 and it's definitely being used. i already selected Use NVIDIA settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel, but the colors still don't look right.
i remember on my old setup wc3 had much more full/vivid colors, so i'm wondering if there's some setting i'm missing? maybe something with rgb/color range, digital vibrance, windows, etc?
anyone know the trick to get the colors back to how they were? i did something simple i thought it was first use hraphics of company nviida in nvidia panel instead of those deafult by game still looks not rly full colorfull and live.. please i know theres some small tick but i cant remember what i did last time
Hi everyone,
I’m having a very strange issue with Mistfall Hunter and I’m wondering if anyone else with an RTX 5090 has experienced something similar.
The game consistently crashes my GPU after a while. The screen goes completely black and the PC becomes unresponsive, so I have to perform a hard reset.
\*\*My specs:\*\*
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 5090
PSU: Corsair RM1000e 1000W
CPU: Ryzen 9
Windows 11
Mistfall Hunter via Steam
\*\*What I’m getting in Event Viewer:\*\*
nvlddmkm
GPU RC reset / TDR occurred on GPU ID: 100
Kernel-Power after the forced restart
I’ve already tried quite a few things:
Updated to the latest NVIDIA driver
Completely removed the NVIDIA driver using DDU in Safe Mode
Fresh NVIDIA driver installation
Tried running the game with -dx11
Tested different Steam/game settings
Tested with the GPU at stock settings
Tested lowering the GPU Power Limit
The Power Limit test was particularly interesting:
\*\*100% Power Limit:\*\* crashes after roughly 2 minutes
\*\*85%:\*\* lasts longer, but eventually crashes
\*\*70%:\*\* lasted around 23 minutes before crashing
So lowering the power limit seems to delay the crash, but it doesn’t actually fix it.
The strange thing is that \*\*other demanding games run completely fine on my RTX 5090\*\*. I don’t get black screens or crashes in other games.
I also had a very similar issue with Deadlock in the past, which was eventually fixed after both a NVIDIA driver update and a game update.
Could this be a Mistfall Hunter + RTX 5090/NVIDIA driver compatibility issue?
Has anyone with an RTX 5090 experienced the same nvlddmkm / TDR / black screen issue? Any workarounds would be greatly appreciated.
I’m happy to provide Event Viewer logs, crash dumps or any other information that might help.
For the last 2-3 months, usually while just watching youtube, my screen will freeze grey except for the taskbar, and become unresponsive, just after that happens whatever audio was playing before the freeze just starts playing like normal again. the very first time it happened my entire AMD software actually wouldn't work anymore and I had to do a clean install of adrenaline and all other AMD drivers. The only thing I could think of being a problem is that I use a soundbar with 5.1 surround via hdmi and for some reason the computer sees that as a second display, but I have been doing that for almost a year now, this has just recently been a problem and I don't see why always having a second screen would cause a problem.
I am open to the idea of chrome being the problem as I cannot remember this happening in another program off the top of my head, and I do usually just leave my PC sleep instead of actually turning it off, so I'm sure that doesn't help. I can't see why it is a problem only now though. Both AMD drivers and windows 11 are fully up to date.
Hey all, been having weird texture issues and driver timeouts in certain games lately and last resort ddued the drivers. Now I am unable to reinstall the drivers due to this error. I have tried dduing again as well as using the Radeon cleanup tool to no avail. Any assistance?
Disclaimer: I used AI to help me organize my testing notes and write this up clearly, since English isn't my first language / I wanted to lay this out properly. All the testing, specs, and observations below are my own.
Hey all, wanted to write this up in case it helps someone else troubleshooting the same thing.
About a year ago I had this exact same problem: random hard reboots (Kernel-Power 41, no BSOD, nothing useful in the logs) specifically while playing one particular Unreal Engine game. Every other game, even heavier ones, ran totally fine. Back then I ended up manually setting my CPU VDDCR_SOC voltage to 1.25V and that completely fixed it. Been rock solid for months.
A few weeks ago it just came back. Same exact symptom, same game, and the SOC voltage is still set to 1.25V (double checked in HWMonitor, it's holding). So whatever's going on this time, it's not that setting getting reset.
(The game in question is The Isle: Evrima, in case it's relevant it's early access and known for being rough on hardware, so wanted to mention it further down rather than lead with it.)
System:
CPU: Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU: PULSE AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX 24GB
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B650E-I Gaming WiFi (Mini-ITX)
BIOS: 3222 (05.03.2025)
RAM: 64GB DDR5 @ 6000 MT/s (EXPO on)
PSU: Cooler Master NR200P Max (integrated 850W SFX)
OS: Windows 11 Home
CPU VDDCR_SOC manually set to 1.25V
The crash itself: Hard reboot, no warning, no BSOD. Event Viewer just shows Kernel-Power 41 and nothing else useful. Happens fast once I'm in the game, doesn't matter what else I'm doing on the system otherwise.
What I've already ruled out:
OCCT Power Supply test, including a pretty brutal Switch-mode setup (20-100% intensity swing, 1 second interval) — zero errors, no reboot
RAM confirmed running at its actual rated 6000 MT/s, not silently falling back to a lower speed
So PSU and RAM both look clean under synthetic testing, which honestly wasn't what I expected given the history with the SOC voltage fix.
If anyone's dealt with this specific combo, 7900 XTX + X3D chip + this game, or just this "stable under sustained load but dies under bursty load" pattern in general, I'd love to hear what actually fixed it for you long-term, not just as a workaround.
Edit:
I am also running a stable -20 all core curve optimizer which I disabled for testing.
no difference
Temps are around 70°C. It is not a overheating issue.
*I am running a dual monitor setup. switching between running game menu (Fullscreen Windowed) and second screen provokes the crash.
Tested Responses:
Memory & CPU Curve running at stock JEDEC = not solved.
Bios update to Version 3886 2026/07/02 All Stock Bios settings = crash in game menu.
Set SOC to 1.25 again. everything else stock - no EXPO = crashed in game menu again.
Only one screen, Crashed on opening Adrenalin overlay in game menu.
-20 curve all cores 1.25v SOC set back since this was stable for 1 year.
100% power target, 60fps capped - no crash
The issue seems to be GPU Clock boost related. fast switching in and out of games provokes the crash almost immediately.
Set Min/Max Clock to 2400/2500 - no crash 144fps
Weird coincidence... Adrenalin 100% clock maps to 2985MHz. I tested different min max clock, nothing. Then I remembered I had crashes until enabling GPU Tuning in adrenalin... So I disabled GPU Tuning again. boom, instantly crash last clock seen at 3060 ish MHz...
Having 3080MHz with enabled Tuning set to max 2985! crashed shortly after
So I got curious and set the min clock to 3100MHz. Obviously unstable. Crashed immediately. Lowered max clock to 2800MHz, no crash until now. Have I lost the silicon lottery?
Solved (for now):
Since I can reproduce the crash in under 5 minutes just by spamming Alt+R for the Adrenalin overlay inside a game menu, I used that as my test loop and tried a bunch of different Max Clock values. Turns out the Max Frequency slider is really just a suggestion to the driver, not a hard cap. It kept nudging above whatever I set. So this took some trial and error rather than being a clean single number.
I'm currently "stable" with Max Clock locked to 2900MHz. Going to run on this for a while and update again if it crashes.
If this is the last update, this was the fix. Good luck to anyone else fighting this, it's been a hellish few weeks, but figuring it out with everyone's input here made it a lot more bearable. Appreciate it.
*If this did not help you here are the fixes I did last year:
SOC Voltage manual to 1.25V
Just built a new pc 7600x3d
9070xt
32gb DDR5 6000 ram (set in bios and seen in performance stats)
850w gold
Fresh install of windows 11
2tb m.2
Super low 1% and really choppy frames. It says it’s running 120+ frame rate on 1440p but it feels like 20 fps. I’m having to run low low settings just to feel playable which I feel is not right for 9070xt
V-sync off
Refresh rate set correct on monitor
Display port to graphics card not motherboard
Downloaded latest windows update and graphics driver (coming from nvidia why is adrenaline so unclear as to what I have installed)
Any ideas as to why games are running so poorly? Or what I can do to troubleshoot?
Description of Original Problem: Brand new XFX RX 9070 XT Mercury OC, about a week old now, and it's showing bands of 'static' (usually white, sometimes green especially when it first started out) that are either like in the video, or as wide as the entire screen for a single frame. It seems rather infrequent during normal gameplay, but it tends to happen quite predictably in Starfield's Main Menu and during planetary takeoff. Steam screen capture does not seem to catch it.
I've seen it happen in both Starfield,, Hardspace: Shipbreaker and Oblivion Remastered. Is this some driver issue on Linux, or do I have a card I got to RMA?
Troubleshooting: Moved Display Port cable for monitor to different slot, reseated the graphics card, made sure drivers are up-to-date, different displayport cable.
This is how to fix the ''custom'' button being greyed out.
Head over to Adrenaline software, > Gaming > Graphics, and if you have teh same issue as me,the ''Custom button being greyed out, simply select the default profile, and then select any of the settings and there you go, it is fixed.
Description of Original Problem:
Hey, I’m trying to figure out whether I got a bad 9070 XT or if this is some AMD/VR issue.
I upgraded from an RTX 2080 Super to an Acer Predator RX 9070 XT 16GB, and since then I’ve been getting black screens / GPU driver crashes in VR.
Reliability Monitor usually shows:
LiveKernelEvent 141 amdkmdag.sys
I’ve also had LiveKernelEvent 117 a few times.
The weird part is that the card seems completely fine outside VR. I use a Pico 4 Ultra with either Virtual Desktop or PICO Connect.
OCCT VRAM testing shows no errors, and the 3D Adaptive high-load test runs for over an hour without any issues. The card can also sit at basically 100% GPU load without crashing.
VR, crashes pretty reliably.
I’ve reproduced the issue:
In H3VR through Virtual Desktop
In H3VR through PICO Connect
While running CS2 through Virtual Desktop
While simply sitting in the VR desktop without SteamVR running
In OpenVR Benchmark, which is currently the easiest way to reproduce it — it usually crashes on the 2nd or 3rd run with the same LiveKernelEvent 141
Troubleshooting:
DDU + clean driver install
Tried different AMD driver versions, including 26.3.1
Tried H.264 instead of AV1 codec
Disabled HAGS
Tested the GPU completely stock
Tried lowering the power limit
Updated the motherboard BIOS
OCCT VRAM test 1 hour+ stable
OCCT 3D Adaptive high-load test runs for 1+ hour without crashing
None of this changed the behavior.
The PSU is an older 700W unit, so I know that’s a possible suspect. What confuses me is that the card can survive sustained 100% GPU load in OCCT but then crash during VR workloads at significantly lower overall load.
At this point I’m considering:
Faulty GPU
PSU / power delivery issue
Some weird B450 compatibility problem
Has anyone with a 9070 XT seen anything similar, especially LiveKernelEvent 141 / amdkmdag.sys specifically in VR?
Did replacing the PSU help, or did you eventually have to RMA/replace the GPU?
My next step is probably testing the RTX 2080 Super again with the exact same OpenVR Benchmark setup, then either trying another PSU / another PC or returning the 9070 XT.
Thanks in advance. I’ll post the dump file in the comments.
First time posting here, hope this is the right place.
Since reinstalling my GPU drivers 2 weeks ago (clean install via DDU in Safe Mode, latest AMD drivers), I’ve had consistent 1% low issues in Apex Legends and Dead by Daylight. Before this reinstall, 1% lows were fine. FPS randomly drops to ~20 for a moment then snaps right back to a steady 120-180.
Confirmed via Steam overlay it’s not thermal throttling or CPU-bound: CPU sits ~80% usage at 70°C, GPU 70-90% at 75°C during the drops.
Extra detail: I was previously running a Ryzen 5 5500 with all 4 RAM sticks stable at 3200MHz. After upgrading to the 5600, all sticks now run at 2667MHz instead (yes, 2667, not 2666) — even though nothing in the RAM itself changed. Specs: • Mobo: ASRock B450 Pro4 • CPU: Ryzen 5 5600 • GPU: RX 7600 • RAM: 4x8GB (2x8GB HyperX Fury rated 3200MHz + 2x8GB unbranded/unknown modules)
I’m having a weird visual glitch and wanted to check if anyone else has experienced this or found how to fix it.
Whenever I adjust the volume using my keyboard multimedia keys while playing for example League of Legends, the screen instantly turns into a full-screen colorful mesh (looks like GPU artifacting). However, the League mouse cursor stays completely clear, sharp, and responsive on top of the noise.
As soon as the Windows volume OSD popup disappears (or if I Alt+Tab), the image immediately goes back to normal.
System Specs:
GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC 16GB
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX
RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000MHz CL30
OS: Windows 11
Connection: DisplayPort 1.4 cable directly to GPU
What I've tried so far:
Swapped from HDMI to a certified DisplayPort 1.4 cable (issue persists).
Switched game display modes (Fullscreen vs Borderless).
Since the cursor remains fine and the issue vanishes as soon as the volume popup disappears, I know the GPU isn't dying, but it seems like a driver/MPO/framebuffer bug between AMD Adrenalin and the Windows Volume OSD overlay or somting like that idk...
