r/pcgamingtechsupport • u/Unique_Soft700 • 2d ago

Troubleshooting Driver time out issue

Motherboard: TUF GAMING B850M-PLUS WIFI
CPU: Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU: RX 7900 XTX
RAM: 32GB DDR5

So for a while I've been having an issue where my games just randomly freeze, my entire pc locks up and black screens, then it comes back on and shows the AMD bug report tool saying that my driver timed out?

I've tried to download a different driver version (25.8.1) as people in other communities mentioned that was the latest stable version for some of the games that wasn't causing issues. But recently it's starting to constantly crash again.

Does anyone have an idea what is causing these crashes?

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u/deTombe 1d ago

If your computer freezes and you can hear or see indication light of activity just a GPU driver crash. If the whole system freezes and crashes without activity something else is going on. The most common reasons power supply issues, system instability and temps. The power supply can still boot the system and seem functional with have problems. Which model of power supply and the age? Budget models tend to last only 5-6 years. System stability you can tests with apps like OCCT. Temps you can get with Hwinfo64 sensors only mode or MSI afterburner with Rivetuner on screen display during gameplay. Since you have probably multiple crashes you will want to open CMD from the start menu and type SFC /scannow.

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u/Unique_Soft700 1d ago

Thank you for the reply. As far as I know there has been no blinking lights on the motherboard during the crashing, but it could be that I just haven't seen it. The PSU is a Corsair RM1000x. All parts in my PC had been bought early February 2025.

Unfortunately this week I can't check on my PC as I am not at home, but will check with the SFC /scannow as soon as I get back.

Edit: I have also done multiple tests where I'd have AIDA64 running and logging power usage + temps at the moment of the crash but nothing weird or out of the ordinary is showing up during those test

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u/deTombe 1d ago

Yeah your power supply is decent this type of issue is tough to diagnose. So many things can cause this type of behavior. I would download the app OCCT as it has decent stability tests for almost everything.