marked as help but honestly; this shit can't be helped.

I’ve had enough. The ongoing stability disaster with RX 7000 (and newer) GPUs has crossed the line from frustrating to outright scam territory, and it’s time to stop making excuses for AMD. Day in, day out, users are dealing with random black screens, hard lockups, and driver timeouts that leave a hard reset as the only way out.

This isn't an edge case anymore. It's a massive, systemic failure.

What We Deserve to Know

• Where is the accountability? Is this pathetic state of affairs caused by incompetent driver engineering, broken Windows 11 integration, or a fundamental silicon design flaw that can't be fixed?
• The Infinite Loop: How many more years are we supposed to swallow the exact same insult in the patch notes: "Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed..."? It’s been years. When does this stop?
• Broken Features: When will features like Anti-Lag 2 stop functioning as crash buttons?

We paid full price for functioning hardware, not an endless, unpaid QA job where we have to scour Reddit and forums just to make our cards stable. At what point do consumers stop taking this and start organizing a class-action lawsuit?

My Personal Nightmare

I’m running a Radeon RX 7900 XT MBA. I’ve jumped through every single hoop imaginable: tweaking TDR keys, messing with MPO, toggling HAGS, locking clocks, capping frame rates, clean-installing drivers with DDU. None of it matters.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 (with update 2.0) was the absolute final straw. It's completely unplayable:

• Run it without FSR, and you get a blurry pixel soup or destroyed performance.
• Turn FSR on, and watch your driver instantly shit the bed into a black screen.
• The absolute cherry on top? Moving to Linux doesn’t even save you—FSR triggers the exact same crashes there too.

Bottom Line

AMD is treating its customer base like absolute fools while cashing our checks. I am officially done buying AMD graphics cards, and I don't care what Nvidia or Intel charge from now on.

Upvote this to keep it visible, or keep pretending that buying broken hardware is normal. If you're in the same boat with black screens and timeouts, drop your specs in the comments—maybe if enough noise is made, they'll actually have to address it instead of sweeping it under the rug.

UPDATE 1
For those who have no problems and everything is stable.
Why in Known Issues with years - Intermittent application crash or driver timeout may be observed while playing... ?
If this problem is not the silicon lottery then what is it? How can you not solve a problem with years?If it worked for you personally and you have stability, it does not mean that your neighbor has it like that.

UPDATE 2
For those who don't believe - Stalker 2 with update 2.0 and FSR is not stable on either Windows or Linux. The important thing is to have proton with FSR 4 on Linux, that's what I'm talking about.

UPDATE 3
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1643320/discussions/0/748296282477695587/?l=polish&ctp=2#c748296282477731651

Follow the link and read: Because S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 pushes the GPU utilization to 99% very aggressively, even a microsecond delay in response can trigger this timeout.

So, does this mean AMD graphics cards aren't designed to be loaded to 100%, otherwise they crash the driver?

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UPDATE 4
This thread is also about the stability of AMD cards in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. It puts a lot of strain on them... I've never heard a more stupid expression in my life, as if you can stress the hardware more than it can.

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1vtougz/update_20_has_caused_the_game_to_go_from_being/

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It can't get much worse anyways so no harm trying - while reinstalling Windows fresh + a bunch of suggested fixes here + 26.8.1 was okayish enough - I still got some stutters in trying to game at 4K on the games I played. As far as I can see - 26.9.1 optional update fixed those irritant issues for me LOL. Unless my head gets kicked around I am not going to easily update from this version anymore T_T

Update for anyone following - it has been buttery smooth like the issues never existed. Each of the issues I'd faced - and in the specific programs - none of them appear anymore as far I've seen. No timeouts, no freezes, no gpu uninstalls, no restarts, no grey screens, no stutters.

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics (3.80 GHz)

Installed RAM 32.0 GB (27.9 GB usable)

Graphics card AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (4 GB)

Storage 409 GB of 932 GB used

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Background Applications Discord and 2 Chrome Windows

There was a comment in a post here a while ago that helped me fix my constant driver timeouts. I am on a 7900xt.
The fix worked on the previous drivers I was on. After a reinstall recently, without using the fix, the driver timeouts returned.
I then did the same fix for my now current install with newer drivers and it worked for my current setup as well.

THE POTENTIAL FIX:

Right click the desktop and go to screen settings.
Scroll down to "Graphics".
Here there should be a tab called "advanced graphics", click this tab and in it there is a setting called "Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling", toggle this off.

N.B!
As far as I am aware, this could have a slight performance impact, 1% lows could maybe get worse when HAGS is disabled. So beware if you get some stutters in games, this could be what is causing it. Or if you notice input lag, maybe turning HAGS on could help.

If that doesn't fix it by itself, then you can try this as well:

(OG comment by "izigo"(I think)):

Go to Run > regedit > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > CurrentControlSet > Control > GraphicsDrivers

Now on the right side you will see some values

Right click on empty space and click New > DWORD (32-BIT) value
A new entry will be created
Rename this entry to DisableOverlays

Once it's created, right click or double click on it to modify and change the value data to 1. Press OK and restart your PC.

N.B
I am not sure, but this could maybe add a tiny amount of input lag(I haven't noticed any).

The only time I now have driver timeouts is when I am actually out of vram. I have also updated windows without issues. Using hardware accel in all apps. The only thing I have noticed is when rightclicking steam in the system tray, it can look a bit bugged from time to time. This also isn't a proper fix, more of a workaround. Hopefully this workaround is driver agnostic and survives windows updates. Microslop or amd, whoever is responsible needs to get their finger out and fix this annoyance.

Build:
• CPU: Ryzen 7 9800X3D (OEM)
• Motherboard: ASRock B850 LiveMixer
• RAM: G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6000 CL30-40-40-96 (F5-6000J3040F16GX2-TZ5RK)
• PSU: NGDP 1000W Platinum
• Cooler: Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360
• BIOS at time of death: 4.43
Settings running before it died:
• VSOC manually set to 1.15V
• PBO: +200MHz max boost override, Curve Optimizer -25 all-core
• PBO Limits: Motherboard
What happened:
Bought 12 Nov 2025. System ran completely fine for about 10 months — zero crashes, zero instability. Then one day it just wouldn’t boot anymore.
Symptom:
Red “CPU” debug LED on the motherboard stays lit. Fans and RGB run fine (standby power obviously works). No video output at all, and keyboard/mouse show zero signs of life — doesn’t get far enough into POST to even init USB.
What I’ve tried:
• Cleared CMOS — no change
• Swapped in a different, known-working CPU on this same board → boots instantly, works fine. So the board itself is OK.
• Put this CPU into a different, known-good board → same dead result, red CPU LED, nothing.
• Powered it with no cooler on just to check for any sign of life at all — it doesn’t even warm up, at all, which makes me think it’s not drawing any real current internally.
No visible damage anywhere — no bent socket pins, no discoloration, no burn marks on the CPU. Looks physically perfect.
Context I’m aware of:
I’ve since read that there’s a known, still-unresolved pattern of Ryzen 9000 X3D CPUs (especially 9800X3D) dying specifically on ASRock AM5 boards, going back to early 2025, with new reports still showing up in 2026 even on updated BIOS versions. Neither AMD nor ASRock have given a fully confirmed root cause as far as I can tell. I’m not assuming that’s automatically what happened here, but the failure pattern (worked fine for a long stretch, died suddenly, no external damage, dead CPU debug LED, unresponsive) matches a lot of what’s been reported.
Where I need help:
1. Given the cross-test results above, is there anything else worth checking before I write this off as a fully dead CPU?
2. This was bought as an OEM/tray unit in Russia, and the seller’s own warranty window has already expired. AMD has had no official retail or support presence in Russia since 2022 (sanctions-related suspension), so I don’t have a normal RMA path. Has anyone successfully gotten AMD (or a regional distributor) to process a warranty claim from a market without official AMD presence?
3. Any advice on documentation I should be gathering now in case I do find a path to RMA or a goodwill replacement from the seller?

Troubleshooting Form:
Computer Type: Desktop
GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 5070 Gaming Trio
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
Motherboard: ASRock B850 LiveMixer
BIOS Version: 4.43 (at time of failure)
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB DDR5-6000 CL30-40-40-96, 2x16GB (F5-6000J3040F16GX2-TZ5RK)
PSU: NGDP 1000W Platinum
Case: Geometric Future Model 5
Operating System & Version: Windows 11 Pro 25H2
GPU Drivers: N/A — system does not boot/POST
Chipset Drivers: N/A — system does not boot/POST
Background Applications: N/A — system does not boot/POST

Description of Original Problem: System ran completely stable for ~10 months (bought 12 Nov 2025) with VSOC manually set to 1.15V, PBO +200MHz max boost override, Curve Optimizer -25 all-core, PBO Limits set to Motherboard. Then it suddenly stopped booting. Red “CPU” debug LED stays lit on the board. Fans and RGB run fine (standby power works), but no video output and keyboard/mouse show zero signs of life — doesn’t get far enough into POST to even init USB.

Troubleshooting: Cleared CMOS — no change. Swapped in a different, known-good CPU on this same board — boots instantly, works fine, so the board itself is fine. Put this CPU into a different, known-good board — same dead result, red CPU LED, nothing. Powered it with no cooler attached to check for any sign of life — it doesn’t even warm up at all. No visible damage anywhere on the CPU or in the socket (no bent pins, no discoloration, no burn marks).

have been having the same issues as everyone else, tested a few most recent verions for AMD adrenaline. imo best option is DDU and install 26.6.4 until AMD address and fix it, that is the latest driver that dosent crash :)

I’ve been dealing with random freezes/crashes on my PC for quite a while and I’m trying to figure out which component is actually causing the problem.

My hardware

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

Motherboard: MSI B550M PRO-VDH (MS-7C95)

RAM: 32 GB DDR4 (2×16 GB), currently running at 3600 MHz with XMP

SSD: 2 TB Kingston NVMe

PSU: 850 W

OS: Windows 11

What happens

The PC randomly freezes, especially while gaming, but it can also happen while using Chrome or switching between browser tabs.

The typical freeze looks like this:

The screen freezes.

Initially, I can still move the mouse.

After around 10 seconds, the mouse also stops responding.

Sometimes the audio continues for a short time.

Eventually the whole system becomes completely unresponsive and I have to force the PC to shut down.

Sometimes the PC instead reboots by itself.

With OBS running (streaming/recording), it used to freeze after roughly 25 minutes. I then tested the game without OBS running, and it still froze, so OBS is not required to reproduce the problem.

Windows errors

The main error I’m getting is:

LiveKernelEvent 141

I’ve also had other LiveKernelEvent errors such as:

141

a1000001 (AMD_WATCHDOG-Dump)

a2000002

Windows created watchdog dumps, including:

WATCHDOG-20260902-2240.dmp

I previously looked at another watchdog dump and found references to:

dxgkrnl.sys

amdxe.sys

amdkmdag.sys

amdfendr.sys

amdsafd.sys

So the crash seems to involve the Windows/AMD graphics watchdog path, but I don't know if that necessarily means the GPU itself is defective.

I have also had older WHEA-Logger Event ID 18 errors reporting:

Machine Check Exception → Cache Hierarchy Error → Processor Core

So I’m also wondering whether the CPU, memory controller, motherboard or power delivery could be involved.

Things I have already tried

I don't want to keep repeating the same tests because I've already done quite a lot of troubleshooting.

Stress tests

I have tested:

CPU stress test → ~1 hour, no errors

RAM/memory stress test → ~1 hour, no errors

Power test → ~1 hour, no errors

Linpack → ~1 hour, no errors

GPU stress test → ~1 hour, no errors

Temperatures were also reasonable. The CPU reached the mid/high 80°C range under heavy testing, which is still within the Ryzen 7 5700X3D's limits.

BIOS

I updated the motherboard BIOS to the latest version.

That did not solve the problem.

I also checked PBO and Curve Optimizer. There is no manual CPU overclock or undervolt active.

RAM

I have also tested the system with XMP disabled, but the freezes still occurred.

Currently the RAM is running at:

DDR4-3600

FCLK 1800 MHz

MCLK 1800 MHz

1.36 V

timings 18-22-22-39

AMD GPU drivers

I suspected the AMD driver might be involved.

I used DDU in Safe Mode to completely remove the AMD graphics driver and then installed an older Adrenalin version.

With Adrenalin 26.8.1, Star Wars Zero Company froze after roughly 25 minutes.

I then clean-installed Adrenalin 25.4.1.

With 25.4.1, the game lasted around 60 minutes before freezing again.

So the older driver seems to improve the situation significantly, but it does not actually fix the problem.

What would you investigate next to identify the defective component rather than just applying random workarounds?

Also, if anyone with an RX 7900 XT has experienced freezes together with LiveKernelEvent 141 / AMD watchdog errors, I'd be very interested to hear what ultimately solved it.

Written by ChatGPT cause im non English speaker

I have an RX 7700 XT, a Ryzen 5 CPU, and 16 GB of RAM, and I’m having a weird draw distance/LOD issue in every game I play.

In the video, I’m testing it in Yakuza 0, but the same thing happens in every other game. Objects and details seem to load/change LOD way too close to the camera, even when the graphics settings are set to high/ultra.

I’ve already formatted/reinstalled Windows several times and tried changing various settings in AMD Adrenalin, but the problem persists.

What could be causing this, and how can I fix it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, I'm not getting any crashes for quite a lot of time in most of my games, BUT overwatch, one of my main games right now, can barely go a single game without a crash. I have did around 10 different fixes for that. Figured out I'd choose a different driver because long time ago I was not getting crashes. FSR4 is a must as my main game (The Finals) is 10x better with FSR4.

Cant install anything on my 6700xt

I have been having this dilemma for 7 months now and i even reinstalled a clean version of W11 and the EOL one with driver updates disabled from Windows Updates, after 6/7 hours of gameplay the Panel would hang itself, i tried every methods but it wouldn't work, and people claim that they don't have any issues and that Adrenalin is snappy, what could be done to make it lighter?

Hello, I recently swapped from a GTX 1070 to a RX 6600 XT, I've done a fresh install of Win 11, then did DDU. Installed the drivers and tried to play COD WW2 Campaign, at first the game was completely unplayable and full of stutters at every camera turn, I turned off "Cache Sun Shadow Map" It helped a bit but still there was a stutter at every turn, then I went onto Rust and noticed that I'm experiencing Micro-Stutters/Jitters as soon as I try to turn my Camera, its noticable and feels extremely annoying. I've tried turning off MPO, Changing Polling Rate of my Mouse, also I'd like to mention how none of this ever happened before on the GTX 1070.

My Config:

• RX 6600 XT Ryzen 5 3600X
• Ryzen 5 3600X
• Kingston FURY Beast 32GB (2x16) 3200MHz
• B450 Prime Plus

I tried playing Minecraft bedrock on my laptop with an AMD Ryzen 5 pro 5650u and Radeon graphics Vega 7, but, with the newest graphics driver, opening the game results in a temporary black screen followed by the game not responding. This happens every time the game is opened, making it unplayable. The only solution I found right now id downgrading the Igpu driver to an older version from a year ago.

Hello! Running into an issue where my monitors turn black then 3-5 seconds later PC turns off as if I powered it down.

My current Build:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• CPU Cooler: CORSAIR NAUTILUS 360 RS ARGB Liquid CPU Cooler – White
• Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX B850-A GAMING WIFI R2 AMD AM5
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming 16GB
• RAM: Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5-6000
• SSD: Crucial P310 M.2 2280 2TB
• PSU: CORSAIR RMx Series RM1000x ATX Power Supply
• Case: LIAN LI O11 Vision Compact Aluminum / Steel / Tempered Glass
• Operating System: Windows 11 Pro

Issue more detailed:
I have owned this PC for about 5 months and it didn't start happening until about a month ago. To my knowledge, nothing has changed or differs from before this started happening. This happens across variations of games, Battlefield 6, How To Fish, WARDOGS, Modded Minecraft, Vanilla Minecraft, basically no matter how hard the game still crashing.

Things I have already tried:
BIOS and all AMD things are up to date.
Checking the Windows Event Error to match up with other people's issues, it doesn't.
Turned off my XMP settings.
Checked all my connections.
Tried a different outlet on my power strip.

Overheating issue? When I take my side panel off it crashes less, but sometimes still does. Does that mean this is likely an overheating issue?

For context, I’ve got a XFX 6950xt paired with a 5700x cooled by a H150i elite AIO and 32g of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 on a B550 Tomahawk MAX WIFI MOBO powered by a MSI MAG 850GL. (I built this PC 2 weeks ago as of this post) Every time I try to launch R6 I get a green screen followed by a full system crash/restart. This started when I set my GPU fans from zero to 100% and back to zero using Fan Control, I opened R6 later on (for the first time) and it loaded fine, I played for an hour, closed out, played a different game, tried to load it back and have been having this issue since. I can run other games (like hell divers at max settings) without issue.

Edit: CS:GO and Minecraft made it crash although I noticed Minecraft only made it crash once I went full screen, maybe that has something to do with it.

The problem code I keep keep getting is
Repeated WHEA Event 18, MCA Bank 5, MciStat 0xbea0000001000108, occurring across multiple APIC IDs.
(I don’t know what most, if any, of what that means but I threw all of my crash reports it into chatGPT and had it look for similarities between them)

Here is the list of solutions I’ve tried so far

-Stress tested the CPU, GPU, RAM and GPU+CPU, all passing with flying colors.
-Deleted and reinstalled all of the latest drivers as of 9/03/26. (I used DDU for the GPU)
-Tired the duel bios switch on the GPU.
-Installed the latest versions of all software. (including windows 11)
-Uninstalled fan control, MSI Control center and afterburner to try and avoid any software conflicts.
-Reset the MOBO to factory settings and ensured that Game boost, PBO, Curve optimizer and A-XMP are disabled.
-Uninstalled and reinstalled the game as well as deleting shader cash and game settings (from files folder as some people on Reddit recommended)

Some of the things I’ve tried may seem redundant or pointless but I’m grasping at straws here lol. The video attached is of the most recent crash after everything I tried above (they looked the same). If anyone has any ideas or maybe something I coulda missed please let me know, Thank you!

After a bit of normal gaming on a usual day, playing CS2, I decide to want to play Faceit instead of premier.

I begin the process of getting into Faceit thru launching their anti cheat. I get the warning I have seen in the past where it wants me to be on Win 11. I am on 10 and have had no issue when I tried it out in the past. I continue and then it asks me to do a system setting change. It wants me to enter bios and enable SVM as I am on AMD. I do so and get back into Windows to launch the anti cheat and it asks me to restart again. I do.

Now the problem begins. I notice my colors have changed and my hz have changed. I also notice I cannot open any browser, I use Brave but I had Opera installed and that wasn’t working either. When trying to open the cursor would show a blue loading circle, then nothing happens. When I try to fix my colors and open AMD adrenaline an error occurs saying that my drivers don’t match the software so cannot open. When I try to fix my hz thru windows settings, where u would usually find the options to change ur refresh rate, it is not there. My network is working at this time.

I begin to troubleshoot the issue using ChatGPT and YT. I eventually learn that in device manager there shows a yellow warning sign on my 9060XT under display adapters. When clicking on it, it shows under the general tab in properties that there is a code 52 (Windows cannot verify the digital signature). I then stumble upon a video showing how to fix the error. YT vid for Code 52

I never figure out why browsers won’t open

I go through the video and amazingly enough it works. AMD opens up, I fix my colors, and I have access to change my frame rate. My browsers still won’t open so i uninstall and reinstall Brave. Then I notice my pc begin to slow down by a very noticeable amount. Everything open slowly, and when I tried testing if it was internet issues I popped up a stream on yt and my network was going in and out. Until everything just went out and i was no longer able to connect to the network. So when attempting to fix this new issue with this YT vid I restarted my pc.

After the restart I ended up being sent right back to the start of the issues where I had none of my color settings and no access to monitor refresh rate. AMD was back to being inop, and browsers too. It was like I never fixed it to begin with.

Now here I am after a lot of frustration and confusion. I need help, can’t figure this out on my own as I’ve always done in the past. I’ve made some changes and right now the things I’ve done to try and fix this are…

I think these are in the correct order I did things…

Reverted the change on SVM which had no noticeable impact on anything at all to my knowledge

Uninstalled and deleted the 9060xt display adapter
(I now have Microsoft Basic Display Adapter listed with no yellow warning)

Uninstalled and reinstalled Brave
(Currently uninstalled again)

Uninstalled AMD Adrenaline

I would like to note that the video pertaining to the network fix works but for a very short time. I end up losing my network connection after some time.

Any advice would really help I tried to be as accurate as possible of how my night went. This is very important to me as gaming is my main hobby it’s what I do every day.

This is my first time ever posting on Reddit as well I will try to respond asap I have a flight in the morning at 6am and will prolly be unable to respond until 12. After that I will be monitoring this post.

If you took the time to read this thank you and I hope to hear from anyone.

Hi everyone!

I have a faulty Ryzen 9 5950X and I'd like to try repairing it. There may be a current leakage issue caused by a faulty MLCC capacitor, based on the resistance measurements I've taken.

So, I'm going to have to delid the CPU, and I'd really appreciate some advice on how to do it safely and what tools I should use.

I'd say there's about a one-in-three chance that a capacitor is actually the problem. If it isn't, then the CPU is probably dead, but I'd still like to give the repair a shot.

My motherboard can't POST with the CPU installed. The pins aren't bent, and according to the previous owner, when the CPU was installed in their PC, the PSU would immediately go into protection mode.

I've made some other posts if you'd like more information about the issue and the repair project, including the resistance and voltage measurements I've taken.

I'm also in contact with some professionals who can help me verify a few things and potentially give me access to professional equipment, such as a thermal camera, bench power supply, and possibly a heating plate.

Thanks a lot for your time and for any advice you can give me!