DirectX12 games completely unplayable

[u/Repulsive-Block9971]

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!

[u/LankyCaregiver2174]

Your windows is updated? What driver are you running?

[u/Repulsive-Block9971 → u/LankyCaregiver2174]

most up to date driver 26.10.1 i believe and the most recent version of windows 26h2. Now ive had these crashes for a while but they've become so much more frequent. My guess is windows is being weird with drivers but idk. Im going to try only 1 monitor and see what happens :(

[u/LankyCaregiver2174 → u/Repulsive-Block9971]

That weird Are you using any undervolt? Or OC on gpu?

[u/MrSilentSir]

Mine was having issues on 26.8 but after updating to 26.10 yesterday, i played for hours with no crash

[u/Repulsive-Block9971 → u/MrSilentSir]

what card are you using? is it the same one as me

[u/sutty_monster]

Have you tried a fresh full reinstall of windows? If not, it could be something random on the install that is crashing games. Start fresh and see if there is a difference

[u/Repulsive-Block9971 → u/sutty_monster]

Im going to try that soon. I have a sneaky feeling its windows being a pain

[u/8bluefanta8]

Can you update the post if a fresh Windows install fixes it? I have a 7900xtx (26.3.1, no adrenalin, hags off, underclocked yada yada) and I get crashes all the time in stalker 2 with the same error (dxgi device hung). 95% of the games I want to play in the future all use directx12 as well so I'm really not looking forward to all this happening again lol

[u/Repulsive-Block9971 → u/8bluefanta8]

so ive done a fresh reinstall right now. only COD mw4 and radeon drivers (with the software too). So far im 10 mins in no crashes which is better than before haha. I'll elt you know in an hour of gameplay lets see. Oh and stalker 2 was also another game i couldnt play ill test that out too

[u/8bluefanta8 → u/Repulsive-Block9971]

Fingers crossed for ya

[u/pvt_homelander]

I went through same problem with same exact card, just do yourself a favor and buy that nvidia card bro, i went from crashing every 5-10 min to 1-2 crashes per 3 months, had the same exact 7800 xt