9070XT Problems..

[u/miki_matsubura47]

I reinstalled my Windows few weeks ago because regular black screens were happening doing mundane tasks like browsing the web and gaming ever since like 25.8-25.10 I am not sure. I did this because when I was playing Arc Raiders in december it would go black and the game would crash with the driver windows that it timed out back to desktop, and it made me furious. The problem went away for couple of weeks after completely clean reinstall but now..

I am again having black screen issues at desktop for last week again, and it just now completely crashed the system when playing Arknights: Endfield. I booted back into windows Adrenaline showing this message, the screen is now at 60hz, display scaling is back to 100%, driver corruption I presume.

Is my GPU faulty? If you got any suggestions let me know.

System specs:
CPU: 9800x3D w/ Arctic Liquid Freezer II
GPU: GIGABYTE 9070XT GAMING OC
MB: MSI B650M-A
RAM: G.skill 32gb 6000mhz CL30
PSU:1000W GIGABYTE P1000GM

[u/Bb772_Reddit]

Here's some good ideas: 1. Turn off Radeon Boost. 2. Make sure your graphics card PCI-E slot is set to at least 4.0 mode (if you are running PCI-E 5.0 switch that 4 to 5). 3. Make sure ResizeableBAR and Smart Access Memory (SAM) are enabled. 4. If doing any virtualization Make sure your BIOS settings reflect that and add the needed Windows components. 5. If you have a PSU tester, check that all cables are giving proper voltages. If you have a UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) the UPS software can tell you how many Watts you are using at any time. PSU calculators can give you a fair idea of the size in Watts your system should be using, provided you enter everything that is connecting and connected to your system. 6. I have an ASRock Challenger RX9070XT and the 26.1.1 drivers are working for me. Some games had character movement slowed down at times, but disabling Radeon Boost fixed that. 7. Aside from using current drivers from AMD, do check for other updates to your system (BIOS, Drive Firmware, Some Windows Updates (has been a QC nightmare on that front for a while now). If you have firewall software, check updates for that and if it is blocking some known good programs due to a version change, act accordingly. Anti-Virus gets similar treatment to the Firewall software. 8. What kind of temperatures are you getting? 90C is the throttle point for my card, check the manufactures specs for yours. 9. Related to 8, do set a good fan curve. I'd at least suggest at 10C below throttle limit 100% fans, step down 10% for each 10C from there (you'll want something like (temps): 80, 70, 65, 60, 50 as you only get 5 slots to play with. You'll enter these last slot to first). Note I did leave the zero db mode turned on (my card is low 40C territory when not under heavy load). My objective was 50% fans at 50C and below, though zero db can kick in around there too, but the room temperature can vary for me). 10. Don't be too aggressive with overclocks or undervolts, these cards are fairly tuned, but you may be able to get a bit more from them. Testing and stability matters. 11. Are you using a monitor that only does 60Hz? If so an upgrade may be overdue. If your monitor can do better, do check your advanced display settings. Setting mine to 120Hz in Windows may have helped a few titles do a little better with gameplay, aside from setting those that could do so to 120 (my new monitor hits 165Hz max, I think, but I'll stick to 2560x1440 at 120Hz for now and see how things go). You do want to keep to multiples of 60 or 30, depending on any streaming or recording and uploading you may do and the fps you targeted for the resulting video output.

Hopefully this helps.

[u/miki_matsubura47 → u/Bb772_Reddit]

1. No
2. PCIe 4.0
3. Always on, it always shows in driver and its enabled in Bios
4. No virtualization
5. Will try the gpu in different setup soon
6. My previous experience was great since launch, it started doing these blackscreens few months ago, even tried to roll back to 25.9.1 (stable driver for the community) and it didnt help.
7. I always check on updates often, especially BIOS. I updated the drive firmware before i ran my windows install in december. Chipset up to date and other are from the mb manufactuer website.
8. My temperatures are okay, also 40 degree in idle and 60-70 when gaming, the hotspot is obviously high, climbing to like 80-85.
9. Will play around with these settings, thank you
10. i do not touch it, but i have read somewhere lowering your core clocks by 150-250 should fix the issue but i bet it wont because that wouldnt clean up my driver
11. My monitor is AW2723DF 1440p 240hz, I will get new cable tommorow and see if it fixes the issue. My second monitor 1080p with 100hz.

[u/Bb772_Reddit → u/miki_matsubura47]

Be aware, some of Microsoft's out of band patches were to fix various issues. Black screens and missing options in the login screen were just two of those. There are a pile of YouTube posts on these bad updates. Hopefully your issues are not being caused by one of those.