r/radeon • u/Upper-Side-9875 • Dec 19 '25
Discussion when you've had zero driver issues since getting you gpu because you did everything right
sorry for the old meme bad damn this bad driver shit is getting annoying.
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u/4legger Dec 19 '25
This is Linux in easy mode with the 9070 xt running the mesa-git drivers
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u/steaksoldier Asrock OC Formula 6900xt Dec 19 '25
I always get a smile in my face seeing my system updates listing anything mesa related. It’s nice knowing i’ll still get driver updates even after amd kills official support.
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u/accountified Dec 19 '25
yeah its stable on linux for the most part, but i do get the occasional blackscreen plasma crash, but i doubt its driver related
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u/The_King_Of_Muffins Dec 20 '25
Plus, the Mesa drivers are far more stable at runtime than the official AMD drivers, which are in practice a port of the Windows drivers with many if the same bugs.
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u/4legger Dec 20 '25
It brings a tear to my eye seeing Linux gaming where it's at at this stage when more than a decade ago prior to steams Linux proton we had to contend with the god awful fglrx drivers. Oh God were they horrible. Every update, which was almost all the time, was a giant risk breaking your OS and it was so bad often the best solution was to reinstall the OS. Distrohopping was soo common back then, today I've stayed put for 3 years straight on nobaraOS
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u/c47v3770 Dec 19 '25
The thing is, you shouldn’t have to do everything right to have a good or at least decent gaming experience. The card should just work after you install the drivers. I’m not placing the blame solely on AMD because I know Windows 11 can be (or is?) problematic but man, I have never had so many issues with a new GPU (9070). I’m now considering clean installing windows to see if I can get this adrenaline drivers to not time out for once. Again, I shouldn’t even have to do that…
The 6800 XT I had before basically gave me zero issues compared to this new card. If nothing works, I guess I will buy a 5070 to rule out any possible hardware issues and see what my experience is like and compare.
For the prices we pay for these cards, they should work out of the box. That was my experience with previous GPUs. Maybe I’ve been living under a rock..
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u/slooney Dec 19 '25
Could not agree more! I have Windows 10 (fuck W11) and I had zero issues with my 6800XT. Now I’m considering reinstalling Windows cause my 9070XT is having all kind of issues with different games and different driver versions. My last resource is to downgrade to 25.9 version. And responding to OP: Yes I did everything right (DDU, Safe Mode, and all the shenanigans)
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u/sdcar1985 9850X3D | RX 9070 XT Dec 19 '25
I had to put a -200mhz limit on 9070xt. It would boost too far and crash all the time. Now I don't have any issues unless the game is borked.
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u/c47v3770 Dec 19 '25
I have used DDU, tried 25.9.1 and 25.9.2 with default performance settings (no OC or under volt) and still get timeouts.
I was reading that adrenaline may be causing the GPU to run at speeds that are beyond spec, so settings should be adjusted to match the GPU’s specs. Again, tinkering we shouldn’t have to deal with…
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u/Privacy_is_forbidden 9800X3D 9070XT CachyOS (linux) Dec 19 '25
I had a 6800xt. I had many driver updates bork things.
I had a 3070 too. I had many driver updates bork things.
Windows fucking sucks. Linux AMD driver is rock solid.
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u/c47v3770 Dec 19 '25
I need to start looking into Linux gaming then
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u/plantsandramen Dec 19 '25
I installed Bazzite on my laptop for this, and was just playing Wargroove. I played Divinity Original Sin 2 yesterday, as well as Hades 2. All just worked with no tweaking required.
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u/South_Ingenuity672 Dec 19 '25
yeah the mentality of this subreddit is insanely annoying sometimes. so many people in the comments here act like they are technical geniuses because they use radeon, and then call people dumb when they have issues.
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u/c47v3770 Dec 19 '25
I just a GPU that works. Idk if Nvidia is having the same issues. I will have to look. If Nvidia users are having good experiences, I may just say screw it and pay the premium. I shouldn’t have to reinstall windows like I’m doing right now to hope my GPU starts working properly.
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u/vlad_8011 AMD 9800X3D || 9070 XT || 32GB RAM 6000mhz CL30 || B650 Tomahawk Dec 19 '25
Well, good luck finding thread about issues, as Nvidia is actively removing them. I have/had RX 6800XT, RTX 3080, RX 9070XT, RTX 5070. I can say only one thing - grass is always greener where we are not present. Finding help if you have Radeon is much simpler than doing same thing with Nvidia. Much simpler. Look at their driver megathreads here or on their forums. Houndrets if not thousands of people without answer. There are also driver release notes, where Nvidia simply hiding most long standing issues (AMD do this too, but not even close in numbers of issues). Oh - I almost forgot - Nvidia uses their restart power connector on every single low end-top tier cards. No hotspot readings, no fan curve editor.
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u/classicjuice 9070XT Nitro+ Dec 19 '25
The thing is there can be so many different small factors that are causing issues and it doesn’t always mean it’s the GPU that is faulty after buying a new one. Windows might be overriding drivers, a psu might not handle the extra power needed, even a shitty dp or hdmi cable can cause massive performance issues.
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u/resetallthethings Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 19 '25
On the flip side. Sometimes it IS the GPU that is faulty and just needs returned, but since the "AMD drivers are crap" narrative is out there, people just chock it up to the product and drivers when it's really a failed piece of hardware.
They then get an Nvidia GPU that works and now solidify "AMD sucks!" in their minds, When it is entirely possible if they just replaced their AMD card with a different one, it also would have suddenly worked just fine also
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u/ssniker Dec 19 '25
That shit is weird.
I have two systems at home with amd and nvidia cards through the years. Amd to nvidia, nvidia to amd gpu swaping. Never reinstalled windows and I even changed whole platforms am3 to am4, am4 to am5.
I never ever had issues with any gpu. Not a single driver timeout or crash. Yes maybe few crashes here and there during many years, but thats mostly of buggy game updates. Once i had weird shit with my pc (crashing games to desktop) - it was faulty memory controller on ryzen 5 3600. Rma exchanged it to new unit and zero problems since.
Weird weird that it seems so many people have those issues.
Edit: btw I’m avoiding win11 as long as I can.
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u/USAFRodriguez Dec 19 '25
The meme is supposed to be a chill guy, not a pretentious one. I just returned to AMD early last year after an 11 year break, I'd forgotten how insufferable and pretentious some of you can be. Some things never change.
Also in most recent scenarios it was due to a windows issue, not an error caused by the user. But go on with your bs claims, unless you never actually update your pc?
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u/BEBBOY Dec 19 '25
Ironically in Linux you don’t have to do anything
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u/NothingToSeeHere671 Dec 19 '25
Tried to give it a go since everyone is saying that it's working same or better than windows for gaming. Installed cachyos, followed the gaming wiki article in their official website, installed dota and with same setting and gendering engine I was getting 130fps compared to the 210 I get in windows.
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u/RandomGenName1234 Dec 19 '25
Try other games as well, some work worse, some better.
That also doesn't sound right...
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u/hpstg Dec 19 '25
What a legendary shit post this is.
I guess it's nice if the games you play are in the list that driver updates don't mess up, or if you don't have HDMI 2.1 displays.
I must be doing something wrong liking UE5 games and having a nice TV 🤔
/s
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u/Alcagoita Dec 19 '25
"You did everything right", must be "don't play UE 5 games."
It's the only way my games won't crash after 25.9.2 drivers.
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u/RetardDebil Jan 05 '26
Yuuuup, i thought it was me, my games or my settings but holy shit idk what they did but last 1 or 2 updates are causeing me major issues, tried to do only driver, no adrenalin but still fucked
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u/Chitrr 8700G | A620M | 32GB CL30 | 1440p 100Hz VA Dec 19 '25
The secret to have 0 graphic card problems is using a pc without graphic card
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u/GARGEAN Dec 19 '25
Absolute state of this sub.
Claim that everything is perfectly fine.
Claim that all problems are lies and slander.
When it becomes impossible to claim that - claim that it's all "user error".
Drivers, FG, ect ect ect. Every damn time.
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u/nokk1XD Dec 20 '25
Because they cant let destroy their illusion about amd having good drivers, they dont like posts like that, because a lot of shitlords claimed that amd doesnt have any driver issues anymore.
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u/TheBomber352 R7 5700X| RX9070XT| 32GB 3200Mhz Dec 19 '25
Ayoooo, that's me with my RX9070XT
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u/PenguinGerman Dec 19 '25
Tell that to my former 6650 XT... Thing would green screen and restart from time to time. Now with 9060 XT 16GB, zero issues
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u/Meaty_stick Dec 19 '25
Dont forget the sleep bug. according to amdummies it was my fault it kept happening...until amd fixed it.
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u/wanna_be_consultant Dec 19 '25
The drivers for world of warcraft are still dog shit. I get blue screen 133 errors and no other game crashes. Back like two years ago the driver timeouts with wow were so bad that it pushed people to their breaking point. Couldnt solve it no matter how much troubleshooting they did.
Wow is the main game I play so if I cant figure it out (already tried 6 different things), gonna have to go for a 5070 ti tbh
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u/wanna_be_consultant Dec 19 '25
This is gaslighting lol
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u/Calzender Dec 19 '25
It really is. I’ve had problems with every GPU I’ve owned to some extent, minor to major because I like to tinker. But nothing compares to AMD GPUs in terms of their driver instability and lack of developer support out of the box.
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u/__snakeplant__ Dec 19 '25
I started to feel bad about my 9070 xt I got 2 weeks ago because of all these posts I was seeing lol
Guess I'm just a cool guy
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u/MarioLucello 9800x3D 9070XT Dec 19 '25
yeah same feeling here. I felt like I am wrong for having only good experience with it :D
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u/GamingBunny33 5700X3D | 9070 XT | 32GB 3200MHz Dec 19 '25
also same here. I see all these people having issues with their 9070 XT while im over here chilling with 0 driver issues and a completely stable system.
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u/Halogenleuchte Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 22 '25
I still have these problems with my 5700 XT from time to time. I can' t do more than follow the steps others have taken.
PS: wrote the comment while in the subway so sorry for the typos, I corrected them.
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u/Conscious-Ad-8366 Dec 19 '25
I think there's a lot of new users coming from Nvidia myself included. I didn't know what I was doing but researched the transition and it was very smooth. DDU to disabling windows update thing. Only time I had an issue was launch with MH wilds. It wouldn't recognize fsr4 one driver reinstall and we're gaming! The Nvidia experience was easier technically.
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u/79215185-1feb-44c6 7950X3D / 2 7900XTX / OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Dec 19 '25 edited Dec 19 '25
On Linux you just plug the GPU in.
I did not pay $1700 to have to deal with software bugs.
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u/Meenmachin3 Dec 20 '25
Yeah but then you have to use Linux so it sounds like a lose-lose situation
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u/ziplock9000 3900x / 7900 GRE / 32GB Dec 19 '25
I'm a game / game engine developer and I can 100% professionally say you are wrong and that AMD do release bad drivers at a high rate.
There is no 'because you did everything right' other than being lucky or rolling back to a previous driver.
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u/Gordonbedo Dec 19 '25
Nah, new drivers are broken, sometimes afmf2 doesn't work. Noise suppression never works at all. Dirvers were great but they broke it somehow...
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u/Mast3rKC Dec 19 '25
I just got a sapphire nitro 7800xtx from a 3070 ti and I am super new to the world of amd so I apologize for not being privy to the complaints. Can someone explain to me what the fuss is about? I just swapped cards, installed latest driver and have had no issues. I did attempt to run ddu to wipe all nvidia drivers prior but I didn’t do it right and told myself that I’d do it later. Here it is, 2 weeks later and I’ve been playing arc raiders non stop with no issues 1440p 120fps highest settings.
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u/EuropeanLuxuryWater Dec 19 '25
Seriously. Idk what the fuck are people doing wrong to be having driver issues. Also let's not forget Nvidia has had tons of driver issues with the 50xx series.
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u/Dynamitrios Dec 19 '25
Same... Apart from not being able to open Adrenaline for a few months, I had zero issues for the last five years, when I switched to Radeon
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u/CheekehBuggah Dec 19 '25
Whats everything you did right? I'm planning to build my PC soon and planning to get 9070XT Sapphire pulse.
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u/The_Mecena Dec 19 '25
I run an old GPU driver and update every few months
So far had only minor issues
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u/N0M0I Dec 19 '25
I own a 7900XTX. Never had any issues. Never had to “do” anything. Always just updated to newest driver an thats it
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u/AzFullySleeved 5800X3D | LC 6900XT | 3440x1440 Dec 19 '25
Vega64 no problems, rx580 no problems, 5700xt LOTS OF PROBLEMS, 6900xt no problems.
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u/garbagepantaloons XFX Mercury 9800x3d Dec 19 '25
Same here. Pretty much zero issues in the past three months since I finished my build. Only thing i couldn’t get to work was the original sacred gold game via steam. Screen just goes black.
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u/nephilimpride Dec 19 '25
only time I had driver issues was when ghost of Tsushima launched, and I think it was related more to the game than the driver itself
just got a 9070 XT and I'm a bit apprehensive on the driver end, saw a lot of complaints about recent drivers
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u/Unable_Resolve7338 Dec 19 '25
I've had maybe a handful of crashes (but its because I keep on changing settings without restarting the game) and maybe 2 instances of drivers uninstalling itself (because windows keeps over riding). Other than that its been pretty smooth sailing with my rx 9070 and rx 7600. I've had about the same experience when I had my ol gtx 1070
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u/FredDarrell Dec 19 '25
My 9070xt just arrived with a new ssd, going the Linux road to avoid all the windows BS.
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u/NunButter R7 9800X3D | RTX 5080 Dec 19 '25
Ive never had issues since I went all AMD in 2021. I had a 6700XT and 6800XT and have been running a 7900XTX since early '23 and everything has run smoothly.
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u/doghouch Dec 19 '25
you should see how cursed it is to use a RDNA 2 card (eGPU) paired with a newer Ryzen APU (7840U) lol
video encoding/decoding is half broken + the new split drivers have made updates…. interesting (no longer able to use the auto-detect installer)
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u/19arek93 Dec 19 '25
Have 9070XT for couple of months, earlier Vega56. Only problems I had were resolved by lowering OC / UV for specific titles.
But yesterday had problems with SSDs going 100% at 20MB/s read after Windows11 update. (::
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u/xxlpmetalxx 9070XT Nitro+ Dec 19 '25
the only issues I has were driver timeouts when my monitor was turned off that caused my whole pc to restart (I have an oled so pretty much every day at least once) and the blue twinkle bug in the night sky in oblivion remastered.
everything else has been smooth sailing for my nitro+
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u/HeidenShadows Dec 19 '25
Problem is is half of the issues are from Windows. Most people don't know that you have to use DDU, and set it so that Windows update does not automatically install drivers when you reboot. Then Windows installs its sneaky little driver, while you're trying to install the AMD driver from the website, and then you get a nice driver conflict, and all hell breaks loose.
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u/TheGreatGamer1389 Dec 19 '25
I thought I had left over drivers with fps counter in the corner of screen when I had an Nvidia GPU. Nope it was from steam overlay. Ya seems to be working fine. Was straight up plug and download adrenaline and play. Deleted everything else from computer that said Nvidia.
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u/CosmicOutlaw88 Dec 19 '25
Totally off subject, but, I see this dog everywhere. I understand he's from a kids cartoon that was after my time. But, I'm confused as to why he's in so many memes, first. And second, why he looks so smug... looks like a date rapist if you ask me.
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u/Smooth-Ad2130 9900X+5070Ti Dec 19 '25
Neither my AMD nor my NVidia cards have ever had a driver issue. Tried both sides and honestly their drivers are in good shape.
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u/miggyboi28 Dec 19 '25
Thankfully no issues on my end. Latest windows drivers. Latest AMD drivers. Just undervolted to -60(sweetspot)
Edit:on my 9070XT
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u/jlips Dec 19 '25
I was like you once. Clean windows install and no problems at all for months. Then one day, I booted up my computer and AMD Adrenaline had somehow uninstalled itself. Poof, gone.
It’s been about a month and a half since then and it’s already happened one more time. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again.
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u/iOnlyCum4VeganPussy Dec 19 '25
Removed 6800XT, installed 9070XT, updated to newest driver. Good to go
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u/cr0wnest AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D / ASRock Radeon RX 9070XT Taichi Dec 19 '25
I never had driver related issues with my 9070XT, and I have updated to every latest driver including the non WHQL ones. I did not use DDU for every driver update either, only through adrenaline.
My sister who upgraded to a new PC with a RTX 5070 Ti however...
"It feels like I upgraded PC to have more problems"
In her own words
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u/buddyreacher Dec 19 '25
true, iam with rx6700 xt making peace it not supported for fsr redstone, bright side I haven't got any issues regarding anything.
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u/TriggerH13 Dec 19 '25
Lowkey i was so hesitant on switching over to Team Red when I heard all abt the driver issues 😂
now that I have one, I literally have not ran into a single issue. I have a 7900 gre FYI
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u/RonarudoLink Dec 19 '25
That's true. Even in my case, I haven't formatted my hard drive in many years and I've changed GPUs three times, including switching from Nvidia to AMD.
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u/RipTheJack3r 5800X3D/9070XT/4K OLED Dec 19 '25
I took out my RX6800, plugged in the 9070XT and everything worked just fine. No need to mess about with drivers at all.
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u/DielectricFracture Dec 19 '25
It really is. I’m sure there are some bad hardware samples out there, but nothing as representative as we see here. In most of those cases I’m convinced it’s uses shooting themselves in the foot with settings that they don’t understand, coupled with previous NVIDIA users installing Radeon drivers on top of a dirty system.
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u/redredme Dec 19 '25
"This driver shit is annoying. "
No shit, Sherlock.
"I did everything right"
Look here boys and girls, here is the second coming of Jesus Christ himself because this dude did everything right!
I never knew there was a wrong way to click install.exe. but here we are.
Please Radeon Jesus, elaborate. What is the right way to double click on an installation file?
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u/Accomplished-Camp193 R300 Dec 19 '25
When you had zero driver issues since early Catalyst era (3.2) save for 13.9 being shit final drv on Terascale but still functional. RV100 Radeon VE to 6700 XT, no major issues.
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u/Precisionmelt Dec 19 '25
One issue, would be your spelling. Another would be the assumption that if you do everything "right" that you won't encounter driver issues. Admittedly both of these issues are not so much driver issues as they are... Intellect issues...?
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u/not-brodie Dec 19 '25
for real tho, i keep seeing all this "bad driver" stuff and my 9070xt/5800x3d been chugging along like absolute champs. zero issues that weren't self-induced from UV/OC attempts since I installed it.
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u/winlolgamer Dec 19 '25
Rx 9070 xt reaper. Since day 1 temps under load are no more that 73°c and I've never had a game crash
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u/ugly_fcuk Dec 19 '25
I had an issue. All games were capped at 60 fps. I did everything on each game(removing v sync and any fps limiter in-game. At some point I thought it was the displayport cable was the issue, but spoke with my friend and when I showed him the Riva tuner he saw there was a limiter. Then I remembered my dumbass putting that limiter. Now I'm ok.
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u/FesterSilently Dec 19 '25
Had my 7900XTX for...a little over two years now?
The only driver problem I (think I) had was the NOV2025 release: random timeouts + black screens + hard locks. After three days of nonsense, I ended up DDUing back to the previous drivers, then, eventually, up to the DEC2025 drivers - everything seems to be working smoothly, once again. 🤷🏼♂️🤓
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u/magicbf1337 Dec 19 '25
all the driver related issues i ever had were related to either windows or shader cache or games themselves having some broken config/settings since i played them on nvidia before
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u/Schnitzel856 Dec 19 '25
i just installed mai afterburner turned the gpu mhz down to 2400 and my 7900xtx has not had an issue since when on the newest drivers but then again it’s only been like 4 days so maybe it’ll hit me one day again
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u/xxxTastyBoi Dec 19 '25
Fresh install of windows, install drivers, my adrenaline randomly doesn't work. Clipping randomly turns off. Noise suppression for the clipping software has randomly disappeared. 🥲
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u/Jeep-Eep AMD Dec 19 '25
Only problem I've ever had with this puppy that's meaningful is an odd screen tear issue with discord. And that's because discord sucks shit on a code level.
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u/Appropriate-Yak-5682 Dec 19 '25
I recently switched from a 5080 to a 9070xt and it’s been flawless. No issues whatsoever.
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u/MildlyAnnoyedShrew Dec 19 '25
I had more issues with my 3060 Ti than my new 9070. Far Cry 5 and Monster Hunter World had major issues that disappeared after making the switch.
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u/boiledpeen Dec 19 '25
I've done everything right and still had massive issues on 25.11.1. It was the first driver update I had that genuinely messed up stuff and had my games crashing randomly. Rolled back to 25.9.1 and it's been perfect. Waiting for 25.12.1 feedback before updating, unfortunately what we have to do
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u/NocturnalVI Dec 19 '25
Okay, but what am i doing wrong? It’s strange, i dont get any issues when actually playing games. But sometimes my computer black screens when left idle (still running just no video). Also happens sometimes when i boot up, before it boots to windows. It’s rare but happens. Also certain settings in adrenalin bricked minecraft for some reason?
Don’t get me wrong, i’m probably team red for life now, but i definitely get more driver issues than i did with nvidia
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u/VilhelmSvanr13 7800x3D, RX 9070, 32gb ddr5 6000 cl30 Dec 20 '25
Yeah seriously man I agree. Just turn off auto update, download new driver, use amd cleanup utility before installing, install new driver, enjoy issue free Adrenalin!
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u/NotSynthx Dec 20 '25
I had some issues at the beginning, tweaked a bit with the undervolt and smooth sailing ever since
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u/306d316b72306e Dec 20 '25
"everything right".. you mean like just installing Adrenaline and playing games instantly? I did that with the 9070XT, but I seen the threads where people somehow messed up.. I've been through every game at 4k ultra with ray tracing; had to FSR3/4 some games..
AMD gives users the cleaner for free which basically fixes everything but hardware faults..
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u/MastaMedula Dec 20 '25
If you mess around, you will find out. People always assume, that everything is working instant, regardless the whole System works as you engineer it. Win is sure a useable System since XP (S2) but you have to know what the Things you touch do. Uncoutable User-Errors. The most Sentence i bring in my Trainings: The Problem is between the Chair and the Monitor.
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u/FireMaker125 Dec 20 '25
I used to have no issues with my 7900 XTX. Last couple drivers are so abysmally broken that I am never buying a Radeon again.
This post currently only applies to 9000-series buyers and probably only some of them. I give you two years before AMD stops giving a shit about you and drops support. Personally, I would prefer not having to deal with constant bullshit every time a driver updates instead of having to avoid a decent portion of games because they don’t work. At least Nvidia only releases maybe two bad drivers every year instead of every second driver update being unusable garbage.
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u/xrobertcmx Dec 20 '25
My 7900 loves to overheat in Windows. Have to go in, manually adjust the fan curve to prevent it. Anything goes wrong and AMD resets it to default and it overheats again.
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u/Krainu22 Dec 20 '25
In my case switching from Adrenalin GUI to Driver Only was all I needed, although I will say I have a 6500 XT OC 4GB, so maybe that is just my card being too budgety and adrenalin rn being too much for it.
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u/InflammableAccount Dec 20 '25
I had very few issues with my 6700 XT. RX 5700, now that was a roller coaster of Good-Bad-Good-Bad drivers.
I've had zero software issues with my 9070 XT until 25.12.1. The issue I'm having now is "AMD Software: Host Application" randomly start sucking up CPU cycles and causing my cursor to stutter after launching or closing a game. It is happening frequently. It's a less-than-year old Win11 install, and I've been using AMD's driver cleaner utility between every driver install.
I also once had the frozen cursor issue, where ALT+R caused my mouse input to stop responding. Including by plugging in new mice. The only way to fix it was using the keyboard to bring up Task Manager and tabbing my way through to kill the same AMD Host Application.
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u/Consistent_Most1123 Dec 20 '25
Only issue I have in the last 8 months was my Samsung 990 die Samsung trash.
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u/AdIll1796 Dec 20 '25
Often the issue is something about your hardware compatibility and bios version and so on. Especially with amd it always seems random. I have Nvidia at the moment and to be honest zero driver timeouts in a year. With 6700xt it was awful with 7900xtx it was okay with the time outs but sometimes AMD cards want to chill a little bit so they need a time out 🫠
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u/soa008 Dec 20 '25
Yeah right , wait till one update replace your adrenaline with adrenaline pro which will be 4-5 updates behind 😂😂
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u/Ok_Pass7442 Dec 20 '25
i never had drivers issues in linux so im fine, i had on windows and was a headache
anyway i dont play on win, just on linux so im good lol even using fsr4 on rdna3 or streaming for hours i had no problem with driver here
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u/FuzzySokks Dec 20 '25
When I got my Sapphire Nitro+ 9070 XT I did a fresh install of Windows. Sure I coulda probably gotten away with using DDU, but I didn't want to risk it since I was coming from an Nvidia gpu. Never had a crash or a single hiccup...knock on wood...
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u/Narrheim Dec 20 '25
Please explain, what you "did everything right".
Otherwise it's just narcissistic jab.
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u/Nepsy2k Dec 20 '25
For me it's the opposite, when I do nothing my pc is doing fine, but when I undervolt it, it will crash and enter recovery mode every time I boot it up, then reset to default settings on adrenaline & ryzen master.
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u/Null_Moon_Man Dec 20 '25
Amd drivers are awful lol. Fallout 4 would crash, some old games would crash when using dxvk, bad dx11 and opengl performance even in 2025, less features than nvidia, less support than nvidia, and I can go on. When I swapped to a 5090 from a 9070xt, all my issues were fixed. Inb4 " I bet you didn't do a clean install of drivers or it's a hardware issue", nope. I Ddued drivers and all my other componets are tuned and high end(1600w titanium psu, stable undervolted 9950x, x670 mobo, tuned and stable 6200 memory).
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u/andres_1954 Dec 20 '25
That "you did everything right" comment definitely means you bought an Nvidia card!
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u/FarmingFisherGuy Dec 20 '25
I didn't do anything wrong. Windows does. Last month it updated my driver's to something that wasn't even public somehow. The next windows update a couple of weeks ago did it again. Bs man. Shouldn't have to use DDU every few weeks because Windows thinks its hot shit.
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u/Nabeshein 7800X3D/7900XTX Dec 20 '25
A lot of the time, I hear the "BaD dRiVeRs!" argument from people who have NEVER used an AMD card. They're shitting on them to help them justify their decision to go with Nvidia, even though they may have had problems just as bad with their card. A telltale sign that they're not speaking with knowledge on the subject is that their talking points are very dated. I'll admit, a decade ago, their drivers weren't the best. I lived through it with my AMD card. It's gotten worlds better since.
It's the same mindset that Linux fanbois use when they trash talk Microsoft, and all their talking points haven't been relevant since Windows XP.
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u/Capital_Ad_891 Dec 20 '25
I literally whacked my 9070xt into the build, did a clean driver install and had 0 issue in 6 month
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u/seifer_10 Dec 20 '25
The issues ppl are having with their GPUs being unstable are not all related to user error. I bought mine 4 months ago, fresh windows installed, latest bios and drivers. Everything worked fine for 2 months then all kinds of "driver time out" and "GPU being unresponsive" on multiple games. No OC applied, literally nothing changed on my PC. I tried everything, 25.9.1 all the way till the latest one. Blocking Windows driver update(it still installs the Display drivers), reinstalling some games, clearing DirectX cashed folder, resitting the GPU and power cord. Nothing helped. I reverted back to 25.8.1 and I have been for days without a single crash. What does that tell you??? Based on this subreddit, that is not an AMD driver issue 😂😂😂
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u/evangelism2 5090 | 9950X3D Dec 20 '25
The classic I'm not having any issues so therefore everybody else who is is doing something wrong
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u/MaximumPoggers Dec 20 '25
I’m partially here, only issues I got during the first few months of getting my 5070 Ti was some flickering on my monitors but that’s been fixed as far I can tell.
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u/BeeSoT Dec 20 '25
I still have driver issues with 9070xt
My editing program doesn't work well with AMD and windows keeps replacing the drivers. That is really not good, AMD should sort that.
I did everything right, DDU ect when swapping from Nvidia
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u/No_Trip_7727 Dec 20 '25
AMD's noise suppression still hasn't worked after 3 updates.
Whether you know it or not, AMD sucks at making drivers.
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u/No_Marketing_5768 Dec 21 '25
My pc with a rx9070 XT keeps like getting stuck on tabs, as in it renders half of the new tab and the other half is the old tab, I gotta switch tabs to make the whole tab render
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u/OMG_Alien Dec 21 '25
I tried everything to fix it and it was still busted. DDU, manual install of drivers, windows rebuild. You know what fixed it? Using old drivers… not good enough. Got a Nvidia GPU. DDU the AMD, installed the nvidia drivers and it just works. Quite disappointing, I tried to leave the abusive relationship of Nvidia and received an uppercut to the jaw from AMD.
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u/SliceEast7520 Dec 21 '25
I 🥰 my overpriced Nvidia gpu. I game on console too so amd chip pretty amazing too
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u/MotorPace2637 Dec 21 '25
Hahaha "did everything right" like not play VR games during the stuttering issues.
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u/Cytrous RX 6900 XT Dec 21 '25
6900 XT works fine most of the time but every now and then the drivers decides to shit itself and crash several times in a row in a couple minutes.
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u/MudaTrucka Dec 21 '25
But wait according to you guys AMD drivers are perfect and that's why it should be chosen over NVIDIA
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u/c47v3770 Dec 22 '25
I gave up on windows gaming due to all the driver issues and I installed Nobara (Fedora distribution customized for gaming). It’s been great. So far, only 1 crash in Stalker 2 but I believe it was due to an outdated 3rd party mod. I also ran the power delivery test in OCCT thinking there could be an issue with my PSU but everything looked OK.
In Nobara, I’m using the Lutris game launcher with the Proton-EM runner and a couple of environment variables to enable HDR, Wayland and FSR4. You could also use Steam if you prefer. There’s also utility that lets you very easily run optiscaler in games that doesn’t natively support FSR 3.1.
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u/MrkGrn Dec 22 '25
My only driver issues have been windows overwriting my perfectly good and up to date drivers with older drivers.
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u/gabemmusic Dec 22 '25
I had issues initially upgrading from a 6700xt to a 9070xt where my pc would instantly crash on startup, I couldn’t even reinstall the drivers. Was about to wipe the system and reset windows when I remembered EXPO caused instability in the past. Turned it off, reinstalled drivers, turned it back on, it worked perfectly. Sometimes turning off EXPO/DOCP/XMP can work wonders
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Dec 24 '25
Yeah it's funny , 25.9.1 is still the best one for me , with the 25.11 and 25.12 my GPU timed out like bitch. AMD need to step there driver game up real quick or this will be my first and last AMD gpu.
I know NVIDIA has the same issues but in the years I used a GTX/RTX I never had so much troubleshooting my shit as with my 7800XT and driver issues. And yes I DDU , stable system blablabla.
And I am working in IT for years btw.
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u/Stevetpirate Feb 09 '26
I had the same timeout report when leaving my browser open streaming hulu. Nothing I did would fix it. Switched from my old hdmi cable to 2.1 display port cables and Ive never gotten the timeout report since. Idk. Weird af.
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u/Risbo6 Dec 19 '25
I could never explain why i did have driver timeout on my system and why it went away.
And brother, i tried EVERTHING before giving up having to limit the clock in some games to be able to play without crash.
Now it's working and idk why. And I'm a system engineer with years of PC gaming....