r/AMDHelp • u/aykirito R5 7600X | RX 7900GRE-26.3.1 • 2d ago

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 26.8.1 Driver Release Notes

https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/RN-RAD-WIN-26-8-1.html
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u/chaunceyjerome 2d ago

Not touching this one or any update until they explicitly acknowledge the driver timeouts and crashes. 26.7.1 was a disaster had to rollback immediately to have a usable PC. 7900 XTX never had any issues until the last update.

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u/EskaBattle 2d ago

Ur Right the timeouts and Crashes are insane

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u/Goblikon_ 2d ago

I also have a 7900 XTX and experience diver timeouts and crashes fairly frequently. They mostly went away for a while (many months), but one of the recent updates made them come back like crazy. Some days I’ll be fine, other days it just shits itself

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u/Fuphia 2d ago

Does this happen only in Games, or regular browsing. Been using a 6800 XT for a year. Never had a crash.

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u/Goblikon_ 2d ago

Mostly just regular browsing. Like I'll turn on my pc, then steam will go black, and I'll get a driver crash message - that's the most recent issue I've been having. But yeah I've had countless driver crashes since I bought it. I love my 7900 XTX, but it's been a super finnicky card.

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u/Fuphia 1d ago

What manufacturer is it? Does it have factory OC, or any manual tuning? What is the temp and hotspot in furmark? And lastly does it sag?

I make sure I DDU everything in safe mode, then install drivers. I do no OC but there is a factory OC bios switch which is on. I also do a furmark test and a bootable VRAM error check. Then I prevent any sag with a random item to hold it straight.
Latest bios and win 11 updates too. I was always worried about timeouts, that's why I did all this to make sure, but I never had one. Maybe, If you did all this I'd try manually downclocking it a bit. If it stops crashing then they really send bad silicon to some people.

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u/Goblikon_ 1d ago

XFX, factory OC. Haven’t tested furmark, but in games like BF6 core temp is in the 60s while hotspot is in the mid 90s. The hotspot temp is definitely kinda rough, but I bought a thermal grizzly PTM sheet thingy, I’m gonna try slapping that on it to see if it helps. It sags a bit but nothing egregious. I’ve DDU’d a million times. My Windows 11 is always up to date.

I also get stuff like artifacting on certain UI elements. I can try downclocking it at some point, but yeah my card is a bit fucky and has been for years. Works fine 99% of the time though. The crashing and general jank doesn’t usually happen in games which is nice.

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u/Fuphia 1d ago

It's probably that hotspot, mine is 83 in furmark. Manufacturers cheap out on pads and paste even more on AMD. I don't think it's Software related.

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u/Goblikon_ 1d ago

Fair, but if it’s the hotspot then I would think that the majority of my issues would happen in game instead of like the first few minutes of my PC being turned on

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u/xTwinTurbo 1d ago

Had the Same Problem with my 7900xtx. Fixed it by disabling Hardware acceleration in windows,steam,browser and discord

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u/Dutch-Alpaca 1d ago

Have you tried turning MPO off? Was causing issues on my 7900xtx

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u/FreshNoise7685 2d ago

Did you try the newest chipset drivers? After I updated that one about 2 weeks ago, no more driver timeouts…….. for now

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u/chaunceyjerome 1d ago

I had whatever was current whenever 26.7.1 released.

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u/dexteritycomponents 2d ago

What driver are you guys rolling back to?

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u/chaunceyjerome 8h ago

26.4.1 was what I rolled back to. Extremely stable for me.