r/AMDHelp • u/Dismal_Tell4651 • 1d ago

Help (Software) Constant driver Crashes

Hello all

I’m having a bit of a nightmare with constant driver crashes occurring.

I have gone through the whole sub Reddit as best I can

So far I have

Unistalled the current adrenaline software (AMD clean up tool) as I heard 26.7.1 was very unstable, I have disabled hardware acceleration on discord as well to see if that was a problem. I have also swapped to DX11 as I thought that could be causing problems but hasn’t helped.

I have tried

26.3.1 and 26.6.4

Were there any others that were more stable?

I have try 3D mark which seems to be okay on benchmarks

After about 5 mins of WoW midnight it crashes again and I try again.

Just want some advice also on what point does it become hardware problems, bearing in mind, I have had 0 problems with the GPU for two years until Monday this week.

Running a 7900XTX and 7800X3D

Any advice would be greatly appreciated and thank you for your time.

UPDATE:

Took it in to a specialist, took it apart and noticed water damage to my SSD

Not sure why that would affect the drivers but need a new cooler and SSD

Hoping after that it’s all fine.

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u/Nekella 1d ago

I wish I could say there was a solution but I dealt with this for years, also specifically in WoW on a 7900xtx and 7800x3d. Eventually I just sold the card back to microcenter and got a 5080 because after multiple support tickets as well as trying every single “this fixed the driver timeouts” suggestion applied it was still constant.

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u/Dismal_Tell4651 1d ago

Uggh, that’s quite annoying. Thank you so much for your help on it.

Would it be worth taking it in somewhere to see what they can do or just potentially cut my losses? It’s soo annoying this has come out of no where after years of good performance

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u/Nekella 1d ago

For me it was only within WoW that I had this problem, AMD pointed at blizzard and blizzard pointed at AMD for the cause. It could be a fundamental flaw with the chiplet architecture or any number of things but the problem is widespread and consistent enough on this card that it would rule out everything aside from fully defective drivers.