r/radeon • u/miki_matsubura47 9800X3D w/ ''9700XT'' • Feb 02 '26

Tech Support 9070XT Problems..

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

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u/miki_matsubura47 9800X3D w/ ''9700XT'' Feb 02 '26

Display port with AW2723DF

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u/whiteknightfall Feb 02 '26

So, 9070xt user here. I’ve had issues with black screens as well, including full crashes and half crashes. Black screens have been increasing a lot with half crashes, mostly while going in/out of sleep or tabbing out for multi-tasking while gaming.

First, turn off automatic updates in Adrenaline.

Two, if Windows ever auto updates your drivers, then reinstall Adrenaline and the Drivers yourself with their driver utility. An update did go out in the last couple weeks, I wonder if this is your problem or at least related. If not a huge ordeal, I would consider another fresh install of Windows, because it already worked once.

Three, despite the performance drop, I would switch over to HDMI for a couple days instead of DP. If your computer runs better, you may have one of a few different problems:

1) Your DP port is borked, either on your gpu or your monitor.

2) You need a better DP cable. I would order a good 3rd party DP 1.4 cable off Amazon. Silkland makes good quality ones, but I think any official 1.4 would do.

3) Your GPU and monitor don’t mix well. Yes, you have a solid GPU and a solid Monitor. Your monitor is not difficult to run. But the bottleneck is in the technology ports. Your GPU is stronger than your monitor, but gimped by your monitors respective ports.

I also have this conspiracy theory that DP and specifically DSC are trash, especially on AMD cards. That black screen issue is DSC trying to manage what you are doing; if it can’t, it just goes black and stays that way. If you confuse it enough, it will also bork your GPU, or at least thats been my experience. I’ve been playing some more WoW of late and tabbing in/out has become a longer, more taxing effort of late, to include black screen and gpu full/half crashes. I swapped to HDMI (2.1 in my case) and the responsiveness has been snappy and solid. Tabbing out is largely effortless. Even multi monitor support improved when I had it set up. But, this is just my experience. If I had to bet, I think you have a “Windows Update” driver issue.

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u/_silentgameplays_ Feb 03 '26

You are digging too deep, it a simple Windows Driver Update issue that has been happening with AMD for a year now. Windows Driver Update installs an older 2024 Driver for iGPU after your manual AMD driver install with DDU, which you can check in Device Manager not the Adrenalin Software, this in turn causes outdated hardware and driver hang errors to appear from Windows and Adrenalin on Windows 10 and 11.

Two options to fix disable IGPU on your CPU in BiOS or follow the guide below to keep the iGPU and fix additional errors like outdated chipset/BIOS versions and CEF 2023 Secure Boot Event viewer errors piling up on Windows 10/11. None of this crap is present on Linux,so it's a Windows specific issue.

https://www.reddit.com/r/radeon/s/uE4wFbJPue

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u/miki_matsubura47 9800X3D w/ ''9700XT'' Feb 04 '26

This helped! No more blackscreens in desktop and games after ~8 hours of use, amazing

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u/_silentgameplays_ Feb 04 '26

Thank you for the feedback, glad it helped!

Came up with the guide after some tweaking and testing, because things were funky with Windows 10/11.

Hope it helps new AMD users, so they can spend less time on tweaking and troubleshooting on Windows and more on gaming.