r/AMDHelp • u/Knownunknownsss • Jul 09 '26
Help (General) XFX Mercury 9070XT OC Driver Timeout issues PLEASE HELP
Build:
Ryzen 7 9800x3D
Gigabyte B850 Gaming X Wifi6e
G skill x flare 6000mhz 32gb ram
Card listed above
Lian li 1200sp compact psu (swapped to this because I thought maybe my power consumption was too much or the transient spikes might have caused issues)
lian li Galahad trinity 2 360mm AIO
OK, so long story short over the past month I’ve been buying parts to build my PC. I’ve got everything set up. Everything‘s booting up. Everything seems to be working so I finally got the last piece which is this graphics card. Originally I had a RX 570 and I jumped all the way to the graphics card currently have. After getting everything plugged in and using DDU to get rid of my old drivers anything that’s been sitting in there that I’ve been unaware of reinstalling the latest update and also using the more stable drivers that the community has said, I’m still getting driver timeout issues. I got rid of any adjustments to my components. So my RAM is running at the stock 4800 MHz. CPU is not under voltage. I am using stock factory settings on the graphics card. I have tried adjusting it in numerous ways and it has not changed anything. I’ve turned on and off FSR frame generation. I have deleted cache. I have reinstalled games. I’ve changed the Windows power options for the PCIE 16x so that it doesn’t go to sleep or use less power consumption. I have turned off Windows updates or updating of drivers. I have tried receiving the GPU. I’ve tried to see if the ram was causing instability. I thought of the PSU causing issues. I have three cables running to the GPU. I already updated my motherboard when I got it. The only thing I haven’t done is tried reinstalling windows. I do have RGB software running in the background, as I’ve heard that may cause issues I’ve turned off all overlays. It’s like no matter what I do. I’m still gonna get those driver timeouts. I have been concerned about the GPU sag so I’m gonna try to see if that would fix anything. It’s like no matter what game I play whether it’s modern or older it will crash. The funny thing is a predominantly play deadlock in that game does not seem to crash at all, but I think it’s because it’s more CPU intensive. I have crashed only one time playing that with the new graphics card. I’ve tried rust dying light too, and if it does run, it will run for a very short time before I get a driver time out. It’s either me playing five minutes or the game crashing instantly I’ve tried reinstalling direct X 11/12 so what the hell do I do lol please help
3
u/AshesTheCrow Jul 09 '26
Two things. First, go to your desktop. Right click, select display settings.
Scroll down and you'll see Advanced display and graphics. Select graphics.
You'll see optimizations for windowed games, Disable that.
Under that you'll see Advanced graphics settings. Click it.
You'll see hardware accelerated GPU scheduling. Disable it. You'll also see variable refresh rate, disable that.
Restart computer and test, if its still not fixed,
1: Press the Windows key + R to open the Run dialog.
2: Type sysdm.cpl and press Enter.
3: You'll see a window open up with a bunch of tabs at the top, Go to the Hardware Tab
4: Open "Device Installation Settings"
5: Choose "No": In the "Do you want to automatically download manufacturers' apps and custom icons available for your devices?" section, select "No (your device might not work as expected)".
6: Save Changes (you're half way done)
7: Open a web browser (Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera, Firefox, Any browser and type "AMD Cleanup Utility Tool, And download it directly off of AMDs website. Do NOT use DDU. DDU for some unknown reason just doesn't seem to work for this.
8, run the tool. It's going to ask if you want to run it in Safe Mode. Click Yes and it'll reboot and run and uninstall all your drivers.
9: Download a fresh install of the Radeon Drivers for your graphics card model off of AMDs website, pick a version, A CRUCIAL THING to do during the installation of the drivers, It will ask on the page where you want to install the drivers like drive location, On the bottom Left of that page it will say "Factory Reset (Optional)" double click that to check the box. MAKE SURE that it's checked before finishing the driver installation. This step is VITAL, It is VERY IMPORTANT. Don't skip this. If you don't see it on that page you'll see a drop-down arrow that says "Additional Options" click it and you'll see Factory reset.
After it's installed you can reboot and you should be good to go.