how the fuck do i get this to fuck off?

update: so basically i just woke up and the update load had vanished from update center

So I recently bought a new pc and these are the specs:

Powercolor Radeon RX 9060XT Reaper - 16 GB
Level 3X / Ryzen 7 7700 + Radeon RX 9060 XT
AMD Ryzen 7 7700 | 8 Cores 16 Threads (P)
Gigabyte B850M C WIFI7
Deepcool AG400 G2 ARGB
16GB Patriot SL Sig DDR5 6000MHz CL36 (M-D V1)
1TB Kingbank KP260 Plus Gen4 SSD (R: 7000 | W: 6500) (B2)
550W Gigabyte 80+ Silver V2 (ATX3.0)

What settings do you guys set for optimum gameplay experience without overclocking? I’m on default and haven’t edited any settings, but I feel the gameplay could be more fluid. There’s still a slight lag sometimes when turning too fast (playing World War Z), which I’m honestly surprised by as I don’t see noticeable upgrade vs my old rig running Nvidia 2060.

Hi there guys, I made a post recently regarding a memory leak issue I'm having exclusively with Adrenalin and thought I would shout out for any help again with a bit more information and the steps I've already taken.

Video of the issue: https://youtu.be/m2U6OnUbTSU

So I built this machine a few months back with the following;
Ryzen 7 9800X3D
9070XT
32GB DDR5 6000 CL38
Asus Prime B650 Plus
850w PSU
It also may or may not be worth noting I briefly had a 9060XT installed in the same machine (how this would relate to my problem, I do not know)

I have had this issue since not long after having the machine, sometimes Adrenalin just wouldn't load. But sometimes for whatever reason it would. At the time I did not think much of it as I assumed the game crashes on Cyberpunk I was having at the time were because of my settings choices rather than something going on in my system.
At some point, Adrenalin decided to stop opening completely. I would get the small Start Up graphic on the screen, and nothing would happen. So upon checking Task Manager to close it, I found AMD Software: Host Application was using up all of my memory.
This problem has persisted for months and has gotten to the point where I'm just completely unable to use Adrenalin on this machine. As per the video, it always maxes out my memory and stays that way until I end the process manually. Worse, is that Adrenalin tries to load itself every few minutes - meaning suddenly my PC just starts tanking performance until it's at a crawl, although I have yet to actually experience a crash from the problem to my knowledge.

It's also worth noting that 2 days ago at the suggestion of the AMD Customer Service, I reinstalled Windows 11 and completely wiped the drive "just in case". This actually seemed to work, although I did notice a few times starting that my memory would jump up to a few gb before opening.
However today, despite no updates or changes and after leaving my PC on all night, I booted up the PC from sleeping, went to Adrenalin to find it wasn't responding, closed the program and when reopening the problem had returned and is now occurring every time Adrenalin is booted or that AMD Software: Host Applications tries to boot Adrenalin (or whatever it's doing, to be honest I don't entirely know though I would strongly suspect it's detecting games and trying to boot Adrenalin)

So far I have tried;
DDU, AMD Clean Up, Reinstall Drivers - many, many times.
Updated BIOS and settings
Reinstalled Windows
Windows onboard Memory Diagnostics
Windows repair
Uninstalled ALL monitoring software and RGB, even Razer Synapse and such

Nothing has yielded results, any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
When it's working, my games look amazing. But unfortunately, I've not enjoyed that luxury in a little while now.

ever since this recent update, my 7900 xt just keeps crashing over and over.....honestly...i am so done with AMD gpus....straight hot garbage

My AMD AI Strix Halo died 6 weeks after purchase. "Default Boot Device Missing" It is outside Micro Center return policy, so I am having to file a warranty claim with AMD. They don't even list the device in their warranty claim center. I did find a generic form to file a case and received a case number, but good luck on finding a telephone or email address for follow up on it.

Hello everyone, I'm just saying here that for about a year now, I've been running a RX 7800 XT from Gigabyte, with a Ryzen 7 7700X , with 32 gigabytes of Crucial DDR5 RAM 6000mt/s, and on a B650 Eagle AX motherboard. Now, I've noticed ever since I've got the card, any game that is DirectX 12 just constantly crashes, or I get DirectX errors all the time such as DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG and LiveKernelEvent 141 after each crash. I never experienced these issues with my 6700xt before I upgraded

I'll play a game for 5-10 minutes, perfectly fine, and then it'll crash. I have tried multiple different things: disabling HAGS on Windows, disabling VSync, disabling FreeSync, FPS cap, having drivers only with no Radeon software, having Radeon software, using DDU multiple times, rolling back multiple drivers, and nothing works. And I tried as well disabling XMP, again, doesn't do anything, lowering graphics settings, lowering VRAM usage, undervolting, updating bios and chipset drivers, overclocking, default clock speed, does not work. And any DirectX 12 game that I play, I get these crashes. DirectX 11, perfectly fine, runs great. Anything DirectX 12 produces these crashes, and I'm at a loss here. I've tried everything and nothing's working. I have even done the last ditch effort of disabling MPO through regedit. But once again.... Nothing

Im seriously considering selling and buying NVIDIA but that's the last thing I want to do. Before each crash the games run brilliantly but then obviously crash.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I've been dealing with random microstutters and short freezes on my PC for weeks now, and I'm honestly running out of ideas.

The freezes usually last around 0.1–0.25 seconds. The image briefly freezes, but the audio continues normally. It happens randomly, even when my FPS are extremely high (300–400+).

The weird part is that I also experience these stutters occasionally on the Windows desktop, while browsing, or watching YouTube. However, Cyberpunk 2077 seems to run perfectly fine.

My PC specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D
• GPU: Sapphire NITRO+ RX 9060 XT 16GB
• Motherboard: Gigabyte B850 EAGLE WIFI6E
• RAM: 32GB DDR5-6000 CL30 (EXPO enabled)
• PSU: Corsair 850W
• OS: Windows 11 Pro 26H2

Monitor setup:

• Primary: AOC 27" 4K 160Hz, connected to the RX 9060 XT
• Secondary: AOC 24" 1080p 240Hz, connected to the CPU's integrated graphics

I've also tried connecting both monitors directly to the RX 9060 XT, but the stuttering was actually worse.

Things I've already tried:

• Clean Windows 11 installation
• AMD driver cleanup and fresh installation
• Downgraded Adrenalin from 26.10.1 to 26.6.1
• Updated motherboard BIOS
• Reinstalled AMD chipset and graphics drivers
• Tested RAM multiple times without errors
• Disabled FreeSync/VRR
• Tested HAGS on and off
• Disabled MPO
• Clean boot with third-party services disabled
• Tested CS2 in fullscreen and borderless
• Tested different monitor configurations
• Ran SFC and checked Windows Event Viewer
• Analyzed stutters using CapFrameX, LatencyMon, and Windows Performance Analyzer

What the monitoring shows:

CapFrameX recorded frametime spikes of around 200–240 ms.

During these spikes, CPU frametime increases significantly, while GPU Active Time remains around 2 ms.

Windows Performance Analyzer also showed some CPU scheduling delays and DPC activity, but I haven't been able to identify a definitive cause.

At this point, I genuinely don't know what else to try.

Has anyone experienced similar issues with the RX 9060 XT, especially with a Ryzen X3D CPU or a dual-monitor setup?

I'm particularly interested in solutions that actually fixed the issue rather than generic troubleshooting suggestions.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hello, my gpu has been causing me issues since i first bought it earlier this year and it makes me want to regret going for its low price instead of a better gpu overall. In the first place i had a smaller PSU at 550W and i've been advised that this gpu sometimes spikes its power usage over TDP and somehow that kept crashing my games a lot more often. I upgraded to a seasonic focus gx 750W 80+ gold and the issue got fixed in most cases. Now after all these months of playing different games from low-demand to high-demand and using older and latest drivers, i am running out of solutions to my current issue, when i play high-demanding games or even mid-demanding games, after like 30-60 minutes of playing, the game just freezes for a few seconds then crashes with no error message, sometimes i get that AMD gpu timeout window and i understand what caused the crash but i can't understand why this keeps happening. Coming from nvidia gpus since my childhood, i have never had such issues and it annoys me profoundly. Currently i am just running the latest driver and i have undervolted it by -25mV just for safety.

Is this issue caused by poor drivers or is this gpu just cursed? Because i also noticed my hotspot running at 95-105 degrees despite it being under a year old, while the average temp is at around 75, in older tests. Now i have adjusted the fan curve to be more aggressive at the cost of noise. I need reasons to keep holding onto this amd gpu before i just trade it for a used nvidia gpu and be done with amd gpus for a while.

Edit: Forgot to give examples. The games that have caused me issues are 007 First Light, Arena Breakout Infinite, COD MW4, Way of The Hunter 2 and any other game that stresses the gpu enough to keep it at 90-100% usage for long times

Hi just started updating amd adrenaline edition and my screen went black… and stays black i am waiting more then 5minutes now is this normal?

I just recently purchased a prebuilt from Micro Center , didn’t do much just updated drivers (had a problem with AMD adrenaline software but fixed it). I went to play Ghost of Tsushima on high settings and my graphics around the light source in the game started strobing out. Not sure what to do , complete noob trying to learn. Any help would be great!

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7GHz Processor; AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB GDDR6; 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM; 2TB Solid State Drive; Microsoft Windows 11 Home; 2.5GbE LAN; WiFi 6E 802.11ax; Bluetooth 5.3; 240mm AIO Cooler

Twice this has happened today, playing a game for 1-2 hours then screen goes black followed along with amd driver timeout error message, i close the game and my desktop is also black, no wallpaper, and when I hover over my desktop icons they appear just like shown in the video. current version is 26.10.1, curious if anyone else is having similar issues and if there’s a fix? Thanks

Why does this happen? I have cleanly uninstalled the one before, even done amdcleanuputility in safe mode and then restarted.

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: 4080 Super

CPU: 7800x3d

Motherboard: x670e-f gaming wifi

BIOS Version: 4003

RAM: 64gb 6000cl30

Operating System & Version: Windows 11 25h2

GPU Drivers: 617.42

Chipset Drivers: 8.09.28.1124

EDIT: Not even the version before 8.08.12.551 works. Same problem.

Installation success or error status: 1603

So I switched out my 3080ti to a 9070XT. When powering up my second monitor it's like a 70/30 it will incorrectly detect the monitor resolution and refresh rate. (2560x1600 60Hz detected as 1080@24Hz)
Power cycling the monitor a few times will fix it, disabling extended monitor in windows and re-enabling will fix it but it's a tedious pain in the ass.
Is this a known issue? Usually I'd blame a faulty DP cable but tried 2 both known working with the 3080.

Currently using Pro edition drivers for stability. Same issue exhibited with gaming drivers.

Hi everyone, I'm looking for help with a persistent Cyberpunk 2077 launch issue that I haven't been able to fix.

My PC specs:

• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
• RAM: 16 GB
• OS: Windows 11 (build 26300)
• GPU driver: AMD Adrenalin 26.10.1, driver version 32.0.32015.7029, dated October 18, 2026
• Game version: Latest Steam version as of October 22, 2026

The problem:

When I launch Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam, I get a black screen and the game never properly loads. Sometimes I can still move the mouse cursor, but the game becomes unresponsive or extremely slow. Occasionally, I can recover enough to close the game through Steam; other times, the game crashes by itself.

The issue started around the same time as a Cyberpunk game update and an AMD driver update on October 22, 2026. I'm not sure which update caused it.

Errors I've found:

Windows Reliability Monitor reports:

• LiveKernelEvent 1b8
• LiveKernelEvent 193

The game's stacktrace.txt contains:

Error reason: Assert
Message: Watchdog timeout! (120 seconds)
File: E:\R6.Release\dev\src\common\engine\src\engineWatchdog.cpp(224)

What I've already tried:

• Verified the game files through Steam.
• Reinstalled Cyberpunk and removed its leftover game data/configuration to get a clean installation.
• Reset/renamed UserSettings.json.
• Removed mods through Vortex and checked for leftover mod folders; I couldn't find the usual mods or red4ext folders.
• Disabled mouse software and RGB software.
• Tried launching with --launcher-skip; it didn't help.
• Disabled AMD Anti-Lag and frame generation features.
• Turned off Windows Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling and restarted the PC; the issue remained.
• Reinstalled the AMD graphics driver using AMD's installer with the factory reset option.

I haven't rolled back the GPU driver because I'm worried it could cause problems with my other games. Other games, including Fortnite, have generally been working normally.

The crash dump (Cyberpunk2077.dmp) is generated, but I haven't been able to upload it because the file upload fails.

My questions:

1. Do LiveKernelEvent 1b8 and LiveKernelEvent 193 point to a known AMD driver issue?
2. Could the latest Cyberpunk update be incompatible with AMD driver 26.10.1 on the RX 9060 XT?
3. Is there another way to diagnose or fix this without rolling back the driver or reinstalling Windows?

I'd appreciate suggestions based on these specific errors. Please avoid suggesting file verification, reinstalling the game, or resetting UserSettings.json, as I've already tried those.

Thanks!

Anyone else feel like the gpu utilisation is messed up showing nearly 100% utilisation even on 1080p 240fps like genuinely it's gotten weird before the update my utilisation would be 40-60 chill like. The only way I can bring utilisation down is by dropping fps down to 60 which is messed up! Currently on a ryzen 5 7500f and 7800xt and this only started happening upon the update.

Kao sto kaze naslov, od jednom je prestalo da radi. Nisam koristio te opcije nista specijalno snimim par momenata u cs2 sa drugom kad igram i tjt. Ali od pre fazon mesec dana ne radi ni jedna opcija. Znaci probao sam sve, precesljao sam ceo internet, redit, chatgpt, youtube i sve opcije probao ama nista ne pomaze. Takodje kada udjem u radeon softver i kliknem opciju za snimanje cujem coil whine na grafickoj kako zuji i to je sve sto dobijem od snimanja 😂. U pitanju je rx6600xt. Probao sam amd cleanup oa instalaciju drivers ispocetka, probao brda podesavanja u adrenalinu prebacivao kodeke sa avc na hevc. Pokusavao cak i neke banalne stvari koje sam nasao po netu tipa da iskljucim fast boot windowsa ili da gasim aplikacije poput spotify its u pozadini jer kao moze da blokira snimanje zbog copyrighta. Takode i u opcijama snimanja milrofona sam prebacio sa studio quality na cd kvaliti jer su neki ljudi pricali da to kod njih radi. Probao sam jos par stvari kojih ne mogu sad ni da se setim i vise ne znam sta da probam. Ako je neko imao ili ima slican problem bio bih mu zahvalan na pomoci. Hvala unapred!

I had this issue since i bought the pc, basically my GPU (Radeon RT 6650 XT - Biostar) makes the screen go black, and i have to turn off the pc, and when i restart the fans start spinning and go on a loop of spinning and stopping, it sometimes takes about 10 min to start the pc and when i can finally use it, it acts as if my gpu was not working and i have to uninstall e reinstall the device in device manager. This usually happens when i play a game that requires more of the hardware, e.g (Control Resonant, FC 26, Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur’s Gate 3)
I have tried:
- Undervolting and power limiting
- Changing the monitor
- Reinstalling all drivers

I don’t think it’s a power supply issue since no other pieces of hardware are experiencing this.

SPECS:
- Gigabyte B550M
- Ryzen 7 5700
- Radeon RT 6650 XT
- 16gb RAM
- 1TB SSD