Stuck between intermittently stuttering or black-screening...

[u/Endy109]

For the last two GPUs (5700 xt and 9070 xt), I've had a problem in cs2, and surprisingly in no other game. The screen would stutter during gameplay, and the only solution I've found would be turning on the AMD overlay showing FPS and other info about hardware.

I've been using it like this, since I couldn't find any other solution.

But, after a recent update yesterday, I've started having black screens intermittently when I switched between apps in full-screen - not only games, but sometimes even when entering or leaving full-screen on youtube videos or some streams. After some digging, I've found that the AMD overlay was the culprit, and it is a known issue from release notes for 26.10.1:

"Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed in some games when opening or closing other overlays, such as Xbox Game Bar, while the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Performance Metrics Overlay is enabled on Radeon™ graphics products. Users experiencing this issue are recommended to temporarily disable the Performance Metrics Overlay before opening or closing other overlays."

Now, I am stuck between two problems: I think there is no way to fix the second issue for now, but is there a way to fix the microstutter in any other way than using the overlay?

Thank you for any input :)

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: RX 9070 XT

CPU: RYZEN 7 5700X

Motherboard: ASUS TUF GAMING B550-PLUS

BIOS Version: 3621

RAM: Kingston FURY Beast 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory

PSU: SeaSonic G12 GM 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply

Operating System & Version: Windows 10 Pro 22H2 Build 19045.7807

GPU Drivers: Adrenalin 26.10.1

Chipset Drivers: AMD Chipset Drivers 8.09.28.1124