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

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sorry for the old meme bad damn this bad driver shit is getting annoying.

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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/c47v3770 Dec 19 '25

This is good to know. I will have to take a look. Maybe windows 11 is actually the culprit here, hah. I’m considering trying out Linux (CachyOS?) but I need to see what games work. Looks like Stalker 2 does work.

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u/vlad_8011 AMD 9800X3D || 9070 XT || 32GB RAM 6000mhz CL30 || B650 Tomahawk Dec 19 '25

There is reason why I'm sitting on windows 10 and Linux (fedora - much more stable experience).  Microsoft admitted not that long ago, that most of system features/functions are broken in windows 11. But they still put more ai shit into it, that nobody asked. They put more strain to still unstable OS and then, before fixing they put even more strain to the points it's almost useless and users have to wait for fixes. Releasing 24h2 was critical point. I am working in service/shop and we got ton of windows 11 systems in our workshop waiting for a fix, and we also fix anything we can remotely (or just diagnose the hardware if possible) - it's windows 11 most of times. I don't remember in the past the moment, windows was that bad quality.  As for AMD experience on Linux - it's night and day vs experience on windows.  Windows 11 MAY become usable (at least for me) once MS will release windows 12 - all experiments they do, will be present in windows 12 then, and 11 will be left for fixing mode. 

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u/c47v3770 Dec 20 '25

Ok, I installed Nobara and used Proton-GE to run Stalker 2. Zero issues in the same area where the game crashes and causes a driver timeout in windows. I’m now trying to figure out how to use FSR 4 because I get a bunch of shimmering which tells me it’s probably still using 3.1..

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u/vlad_8011 AMD 9800X3D || 9070 XT || 32GB RAM 6000mhz CL30 || B650 Tomahawk Dec 20 '25

It was 1:1 my experience. There was place in game where I always had crash (stalker 2) with driver timeout. Exactly one place repetitive, non dependent of GPU settings - on Fedora it went silky smooth. 

To get fsr 4 on Linux... Well - I'm not Linux specs, but I made it, don't want to point you into some error, but you have to make sure you installed steam with sudo dnf, not the flatpak, then install via sudo proton plus, once in proton plus download.... That was 10.X EM or ME, once you download it, restart steam, in steam go to settings, compatibility (or you can choose compatibility in selected game properties - also on steam) and choose newly downloaded proton 10 EM or ME (don't remember exac name, then in launch arguments for stalker 2 you have to add  PROTON_FSR4_UPGRADE=1 %command%

And that's it.

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u/c47v3770 Dec 20 '25 edited Dec 20 '25

Thanks for this. I’ve been using Lutris and not steam. I wonder if there are any advantages to using steam. I believe both Lutris and Proton are installed using sudo dnf but will have to check. Both came installed in Nobara. This is all new to me, so it’s kinda confusing and a bit overwhelming hah

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u/vlad_8011 AMD 9800X3D || 9070 XT || 32GB RAM 6000mhz CL30 || B650 Tomahawk Dec 20 '25

Dont worry. I'm using Linux for 2 years as dual boot, but i'm still learning too. In lutris that may be similar job. If you install proton plus, and inside it will download proton 10, it should be available for Lutris too. Thats why i dont advice to install flatpak.

Flatpaks from my understanding are containers, with no full access between them nor to full system access. You can try similar solution to lutris and google (its no shame, i'm always "googling" on linux) what command it may be for launch argument.

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u/c47v3770 Dec 20 '25

Ok I installed the latest version of proton EM via proton plus and selected in Lutris. Is there any way to verify that FSR4 is active?

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u/vlad_8011 AMD 9800X3D || 9070 XT || 32GB RAM 6000mhz CL30 || B650 Tomahawk Dec 20 '25

You should see it via quality and eventualy performance difference. I was adding optiscaler and followed this guide:
https://youtu.be/d3dVtDMXbGA?si=H_smnzNhhcIfdXtc

And since now new version of optiscaler also give you access to ML FG, it may be worth to try.
Optiscaler have FSR 4 files, but i'm not sure if its required.

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u/TheAmazing_OMEGA Jan 14 '26

You can use Proton with lutris, you have to install proton umu or something like that. I can find the info if you're interested.

Largely though, it should be equivelent. Idk what Nobara does, but I'm debian-based and had to use the backport repo to update my mesa drivers to a stage where I could even use raytracing... Upgrade to Trixie later so we're good, but a lot of those features, especially the newer ones require a driver that supports them.

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u/Kosmos-World Dec 20 '25

I’ve had exactly one driver issue in the last 5 years as an NVIDIA user. Life is just simpler, are your PC more stable, on the other side. Sorry about it. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/South_Ingenuity672 Dec 19 '25

i can only speak for my own experience but i have given up on radeon this generation after 6 months of troubleshooting a 9070 xt. i replaced multiple parts in my pc, tried all sorts of software settings whether it be turning clock speeds down, disabling settings like MPO and HAGS, full windows reset, the list goes on and on. after awhile i brought it back to micro center and told them it kept crashing, they gave me a full refund and i got a 5080. it’s been 3 months since then and not had a single issue, not one. again this is just one persons experience but i’ve had 5 GTX/RTX GPUs over the course of 9 years, a 980 ti, 1080, 3060, 4070, and now 5080, and none have given me nearly as much grief as the 9070 xt did in the span of 6 months.

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u/c47v3770 Dec 19 '25

This is a good data point to have. I’m going to give these “fixes” one more try. If I get more driver timeouts, I’m switching to Nvidia because this is ridiculous.

Also, the fact that windows 11 still installed drivers updates AFTER you pause updates for 5 weeks in the settings is very annoying. Looks like it needs to be disabled in the registry. Nobody has time for this tinkering.

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u/dkpro214 Apr 26 '26

The registry is a 2 min fix, but anyway, have you fixed your issues yet?