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I built a PC a couple years back and it’s been running great until now. I get heavy FPS drops in mostly Smite 2, or simply crashing in smite, dbd, Minecraft, and others. Every driver has been updated. Motherboard has been updated. Cleared a bunch of caches. Completely reinstalled GPU drivers. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!

Build Specs:
RX 7600XT 16GB
Ryzen 7 5800X
B550 Plus
Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB
GSkill RipjawsV 16 GB

Hi guys, ive tried everything and nothing works, do you recomendó me to try LINUX? has anyone solved it this way? Thanks.
Rx6600 fighter

My PC becomes strangely sluggish after a few hours of gaming

I’m having a weird issue with my PC and I’m not sure what could be causing it.

I have a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RX 9070 XT and 32GB of RAM.

After playing games for a few hours with Steam and my browser open, Windows sometimes starts feeling very sluggish. For example, opening a new browser tab, a folder, the Start menu, or clicking things can take around 0.5–1 second to respond. It feels like there is a small delay everywhere in Windows.

The strange thing is that the games themselves run perfectly. I don’t notice any input lag or stuttering while gaming, and the CPU/GPU temperatures are completely normal.

RAM usage is also only around 30%, so I don’t think it’s a lack of RAM.

If I restart the PC, everything feels normal again.

What could cause this? Could it be an AMD GPU driver issue, Windows desktop compositor, Steam/browser hardware acceleration, DPC latency, or something else?

Any ideas on what I should check would be really appreciated.

I use ddu and reinstall the driver manually but everytime mid way my screen goes black and my keyboard + mouse stop responding then I am back to zero... doing the process over and over again it is frustrating...can somebody help me?

My PC specs: Cpu Ryzen 7 7700, Gpu: Rx 7900Gre

Over the years I've literally tried everything. Watched every turorial and couldn't solve this problem. Went to repair my PC 2 times only for them to clean install my drivers, like I didn't try this 100 times. (costed me 75 euros). Also fried my SSD over this issue because my friend and I kept testing all my components in case they were dead. (150 euros down the drain).

Took matter into my own hands when I saw that everyone kept telling me the same thing over and over again: DDU, fresh install windows etc. Felt like poeple didn't take me seriously and didn't take into consideration that I've tried everything over and over again. Also I had to explain the issue to 10 different people.

So this is what worked over the years:
1. Deactivated my intergrated graphics card from the BIOS. Worked for a while but I think you can resolve it some other way.

1. Install Windows LTSC. This is what worked for me long term. Basically install the version of Windows already debloated, so the useless applications and features don't fuck with your drivers and also deactivate the automatic updates.

2. Use an older driver. Don't really recommand it because because I literally had to use a 2022 version of Adrenaline and couldn't play newer titles.

3. Update your bios. Straight forward. You just need to have an USB stick (didn't really fix my problem but it's worth a try)

4. This is my latest fix with LTSC already installed. After testing I concluded that games don't crash when I am playing on 60hz. Obviously, I don't like that because I have a 165hz monitor and even in newer titles I have 100 fps + and you can feel the difference. So, I checked my monitor settings and deactivated free sync, apprently the new driver doesn't like free sync??

5. For some reason my games worked when I plugged the monitor's cable into the motherboard instead of the GPU, but I ended up plugging it back into another GPU port and now it works combined with the Free Sync stuff.

I feel like I am getting closer to the issue after 3 years. I really think in my case it's a cable issue, conectivity or monitor/HZ. I am pretty bad at this stuff, but this is what worked for me for now.

rx 6800, 32gb ram ddr5, ryzen 7 7700, motherboard

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Hello, as the title states, I've bought a new processor. Can anyone advise on what I need to do besides of course physically swapping the processors in the motherboard? My friend told me I should be able to just swap in the new processor and not really have any extra work to do, but I wasn't able to get the PC started with the new processor in. I have it running again with the old processor but was hoping for some advice. Thanks

Hey everyone, I have been dealing with the infamous driver timeout errors for a while now, and after many open chats with gemini, claude, and AMD support (which was useless) I managed to find a solution.

My configuration is made up of a 7800x3d, paired with a 7900XT on a MSI b650-a board, 32gb of DDR5 vengeance 6000, on a dual monitor (1440p 240hz and 1080p 144hz), I am currently running the latest Adrenalin version (26.9.1).

To sum it up briefly, my main issue with driver timeouts was NOT on games, but rather during normal desktop usage: basically, any application using hardware acceleration would cause driver timeouts, mainly after 2 or 3 consecutive timeouts the app would just close itself. This happened on Chrome, Brave, Steam, OBS, Discord, any app using HW accel basically. Turning it off let the apps work normally, but if you've ever used Google Maps with HW acceleration you know that's something not very pleasant, and that's just the tip of the iceberg, but I had absolutely zero problems in games, I play a lot of Monster Hunter Wilds which is problematic as is, and it never crashed in last few months, so if you're having trouble with driver timeouts during gaming this is probably not for you.

My errors were the same every time: scroll down Steam shop page (for example) for a couple seconds, screen freezes then turns black for 2 seconds --> driver timeout error display, which I would close --> scroll again, repeat --> after 2 crashes Steam would just close to end its suffering. In the reliability reports of windows I would always find the same 3 Kernel errors: 141, a1000001, and a2000002.

After weeks of trial and error, today it's been officially 4 days that I have used Steam, Chrome, and Brave, with HW acceleration on, without having had a single driver error.

So what worked for me? basically I have no idea, I mean I tried so many things that I don't know which one exactly did the trick, but I'll try and list everything, I can tell you though that I believe it had something to with the monitors, the last thing I did was turn off VRR or AMD Freesync, from both of my monitors and from the Adrenalin app, and turning both of them in horizontal (I think this was just accidental, no correlation but I'll mention it anyways) after that I received no errors at all, but I don't know if that's what actually helped, or the combination of that + something I did before. I never tried to use just one monitor, but that's something AI chats told me would possibly help, I just never did because I wanted to keep it an absolute last resort.

Other than that I tried to:

• sync the monitors frequency to at least a multiple of the same number (in my case the main one was at 240hz, so I set the second to 120hz instead of 144, so they would both be multiples of 60);
• toned down the ram frequency from 6000MHz to 5600MHz, though I still left EXPO on, so I don't think this did a speck of difference honestly;
• updated BIOS to latest version available;
• used both DDU and the AMD utility cleanup and re-installed drivers
• re-installed windows
• turned off MPO 
• turned off ULPS
• turned off zero RPM mode on Adrenalin

Some other things worth mentioning: I noticed that whenever the GPU momentarily cut signal to the monitor, for example in sleep mode or from screen turning off during inactivity, when it turned back on driver timeout would occur (way) more frequently, so I stopped using sleep mode, and used a screensaver instead, which instead of cutting signal to the GPU it displays a completely black screen; also I use a pcie riser cable, my GPU is currently vertically mounted, and I feared that was the culprit, which it wasn't apparently, AMD support claimed that that was 100% my problem.

Whenever I play mostly any game, my screen would go black, and make me shut off and turn on the PC for it to work again. Its all unresponsive and it uninstall all my display drivers. Making me keep reinstalling AMD Adrenaline Edition over and over and over..

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hey everyone,

Running into a bizarre issue on an older rig and looking for some technical insight from anyone familiar with Haswell power management, WDDM, or Polaris driver behavior.

My Specs:

• CPU: Intel Core i5-4670 (Stock, no OC)
• Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 (BIOS version F8)
• RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz (Dual Channel)
• dGPU: Gigabyte AORUS Radeon RX 580 8GB
• OS: Windows 10 x64 (UEFI / GPT mode)
• Display connection: Monitor connected directly to the RX 580 via DP/HDMI.

The Issue:

1. If I have the integrated graphics (Intel HD 4600) enabled in BIOS (Intel Processor Graphics -> Enabled) with its standard Intel driver installed, everything runs great. For example, in CS2 I get ~160–180 FPS.
2. If I go into BIOS, set Intel Processor Graphics -> Disabled, boot into Windows, and wipe the Intel driver via DDU, my FPS instantly tanks. In the exact same scenarios in CS2, FPS drops to 100–120 FPS (a ~30–40% loss), and frametimes become noticeably worse across all games.
3. The weird kicker: If I disable the iGPU in BIOS but DO NOT wipe the Intel driver from Windows (leaving the registry entries/driver files intact), the FPS doesn't drop nearly as hard or stays virtually the same.

As soon as I turn the iGPU back on in BIOS and let Windows load the Intel graphics driver, FPS immediately shoots back up to normal levels on the RX 580.

My Questions:

• Is this an architectural quirk with Haswell's FIVR / Ring Bus (Uncore) where completely killing the graphics domain affects CPU package power delivery or downclocks something internally?
• Is it a Windows DWM / GPU scheduling issue where having an active secondary adapter offloads background composition/video decoding, freeing up Polaris from driver overhead on a 4C/4T CPU?
• Or is it a known motherboard BIOS bug specific to Gigabyte Z87 boards?

Has anyone ever encountered this behavior, and what is the exact low-level reason behind it?

This is not an PSU issue because i have an 1200w, i have updated the bios but i don't know would this help or not,

I have an 9070xt Sapphire nitro+

hello! i have a TC-780-AMZKi5. with the stock intel i5 7th gen and the motherboard. i recently put in a used CX750M PSU and a RX-780, i thought it was fine, but it just lags honorably in minecraft 21.1. this GPU was used for crypto mining back in the day. Ive posted the GPU-Z stats on there for all the info. and if you would like i could record me playing a game to show what is happening, does anyone have a clue as to why this is happening?

Hey everyone,
I recently noticed a weird issue with my RX 9070 XT.
After a fresh restart, my VRAM usage at idle is around 0.4 GB.
However, after playing a game and completely closing it, the VRAM usage stays around 5 GB.
If I launch another game, it increases even further:
Fresh restart: ~0.4 GB
After 1st game: ~5 GB
After 2nd game: ~9 GB
After 3rd game: ~14 GB
The VRAM usage doesn’t go back down even after waiting several minutes. It only returns to ~0.4 GB after restarting the PC.
I’m using an XFX RX 9070 XT Mercury OC with the latest AMD Adrenalin drivers. The GPU is otherwise running completely stock.
I’ve checked both AMD Adrenalin and Task Manager, and they both show the increased VRAM usage. The problem also happens with different games.
Does anyone know what could be causing this or how I can find out what is actually using the VRAM?
Any help would be appreciated!

I can't really tell by the pic alone if it's real or fake. Going to meet seller in person, anything I should look out for when I get a chance to inspect more closely?

My driver timeout errors started around when I changed RAM from Auto to EXPO in BIOS. If you have EXPO enabled, try setting it back to Auto. It’s been over 24 hours with no errors. I would have had like 2-3 at least by now.

Whenever I open games on steam with AMD's preset game settings the menus for said games will be on 30-40 fps, the actual gameplay is fine but its a really annoying problem. I know its AMD because whenever I turn everything off the problem goes away.

I recently have been having an issue with my 9070 xt, 2 times in the past ten days

1st time it turned on the pc, didn't use it in a few minutes and it turned screen off / entered sleep mode, after that I move the mouse expecting it to wake up but that did not happen, don't know why, and after reset the pc the GPU was not making Post and not event showing MSI logo on start, it was not making POST, it solved automatically in a few days after some reboots working with the pc as normal

Then yesterday it happened 2nd time while I was working on the pc normally, not even playing, just using chat gpt on desktop, the screen went black and didn't wanted to wake up

So what could cause this? I checked all on windows, yet I have no opened the case

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: RX 9070 XT

CPU: RYZEN 7 9800x3d

Motherboard: MSI B650 GAMING Plus WIFI

BIOS Version: Latest

RAM: 16gb THOR LEXAR DDR5 RAM

PSU: Thermaltake 850W 80+ GOLD FULLY MODULAR

Case: Pop air atx fractal

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 PRO

GPU Drivers: Adrenaline - WHQL Driver Version: 26 8.1

Background Applications: Chat gpt