AMD Adrenaline Driver Timeouts (7900XTX)

Columbo · Monday at 14:54

A few months ago I moved from team green to team red and while in general I'm happy with the cards performance, the driver issues I've been having are something different.
I've tried various online theories from registry changes, old drivers versions, wipe with DDU and reinstall, disabling XMP, deleting the profiles from Adrenaline and few other things and still just randomly out of the blue a game I'm playing will simply freeze, completely locking up the display and eventually resetting the display with a Driver Timeout Error.

Hardly ever had a crash before this on the old 3080Ti and and the GPU is the only thing I've changed.
Has anyone else had this problem and actually fixed it?

My last resort is a full Windows wipe but I really cba with that if I can avoid it.

fraps · Monday at 15:07

What PSU are you using and are you overclocking or undervolting at all?

Firegod · Monday at 15:23

I've said it in a few threads now but personally, if I was swapping vendors (either way round) I'd be doing a fresh install. Too many niggles otherwise. But plenty get away with just a driver uninstall. I wouldn't do it, I'd want the peace of mind. Then if things go wrong you know you're on solid footing from an OS perspective.

As fraps says, what is your PSU? The 7900XTX needs more go go juice.

Columbo · Monday at 15:42

Thanks guys, not overclocked / undervolted at all everything totally stock. The only thing I've done is apply the XMP profile in the bios on the ram.
PSU is a Corsair RM1000x.

fraps · Monday at 15:44

Columbo said:
Thanks guys, not overclocked / undervolted at all everything totally stock. The only thing I've done is apply the XMP profile in the bios on the ram.
PSU is a Corsair RM1000x.

PSU sounds fine, what’s the rest of the system specs and are you using three separate PCIE cables?

Columbo · Monday at 15:46

Specs in sig yes and using separate cables as I'd read a while back using the daisy style ones is not recommended.

fraps · Monday at 15:51

Columbo said:
Specs in sig yes and using separate cables as I'd read a while back using the daisy style ones is not recommended.

Sorry, I’m out so using my phone right now and can’t see any sigs. Are you on the latest adrenaline drivers and what specific game was it that was causing the crashes?

Columbo · Monday at 16:55

No worries fella.
Its made up of a 5700x3D, a Gigabyte X570, and some 32gb (2x16gb) Corsair 3600mhz

fraps · Monday at 17:14

Columbo said:
No worries fella.
Its made up of a 5700x3D, a Gigabyte X570, and some 32gb (2x16gb) Corsair 3600mhz

Can’t see anything problematic here. Motherboard on the latest bios?

Columbo · Monday at 19:10

fraps said:
Can’t see anything problematic here. Motherboard on the latest bios?

Didnt know if I was actually but just checked and yes I am, looks like a full wipe maybe required I suspect.

fraps · Monday at 21:35

Columbo said:
Didnt know if I was actually but just checked and yes I am, looks like a full wipe maybe required I suspect.

Does look like it unfortunately, are the card temps ok? And what games does the driver timeouts happen on?

Cyber-Mav · Tuesday at 06:56

CPU degradation?

Columbo · Tuesday at 08:05

Cyber-Mav said:
CPU degradation?

I hope not, I dont mess around with anything these days and the crashes started literally the same day I installed the AMD card.
On the 3080Ti I'd not had a crash in months that wasnt Windows update related or game bug caused.

eeii · Tuesday at 08:44

if you have a spare drive i would install a fresh copy of windows on it. You could also try furmark for about 15 mins to see if that generates a time out.

Kirby Wurm · 2025-09-24T20:25:41+0100

fraps said:
Sorry, I’m out so using my phone right now and can’t see any sigs.

Off topic, but just flip to landscape and the sigs should be displayed when using a mobile.

Kirby Wurm · 2025-09-24T20:29:44+0100

@Columbo , have you checked event viewer to see if there any additional details in there? It's unlikely you'll see anything useful but it could help rule out a CPU WHEA error, for example. Seems unlikely to be anything but the GPU though.

Have you tried rolling back to an older driver?

Jeka · 2025-09-25T06:59:50+0100

Hi all,

I’ve been struggling with random AMD Adrenaline driver crashes/timeouts on my 7900 XTX for a long time now, and I wanted to share everything I’ve tried so far:

Old system (Intel i5-12600K build): Crashes were happening there already.
Upgraded to current system (Ryzen 7 9800X3D): Same issue continued.
GPU swap: First card was an ASUS TUF 7900 XTX, which I RMA’d. I then moved to a Sapphire Nitro+ Vapor-X 7900 XTX, but the crashes still happen.
PSU swap: Originally used a Cooler Master V850 SFX Gold, replaced it with a Corsair SF1000, no change.
Windows reinstall: Fully reinstalled Windows from scratch.
Drivers and BIOS: Updated to the latest versions multiple times, always with DDU before reinstalling drivers.
vBIOS update: Followed Sapphire’s instructions and flashed both BIOS positions.
Secondary vBIOS: The only thing that makes the system somewhat stable for me is running the card on the secondary (quiet) vBIOS. If I also limit the clock speed to ~2900 MHz and set power limit to -5%, it helps as well, but honestly everything should work at default settings, and this workaround doesn’t feel acceptable for a high-end card.

Temps are fine, everything else in the system is stable under stress tests, but in games the driver crash is completely random.

At this point I’m running out of ideas. Has anyone else managed to permanently fix this, or is secondary vBIOS + downclocking the only workaround? I’m also considering RMA’ing my RAM just to rule it out.

Firegod · 2025-09-25T07:54:19+0100

Any 3rd party software installed as that can cause instability. Notorious things like Corsair icue, MSI afterburner, Asus Armoury, etc.

Jeka said:
Hi all,

I’ve been struggling with random AMD Adrenaline driver crashes/timeouts on my 7900 XTX for a long time now, and I wanted to share everything I’ve tried so far:

Old system (Intel i5-12600K build): Crashes were happening there already.

Upgraded to current system (Ryzen 7 9800X3D): Same issue continued.

GPU swap: First card was an ASUS TUF 7900 XTX, which I RMA’d. I then moved to a Sapphire Nitro+ Vapor-X 7900 XTX, but the crashes still happen.

PSU swap: Originally used a Cooler Master V850 SFX Gold, replaced it with a Corsair SF1000, no change.

Windows reinstall: Fully reinstalled Windows from scratch.

Drivers and BIOS: Updated to the latest versions multiple times, always with DDU before reinstalling drivers.

vBIOS update: Followed Sapphire’s instructions and flashed both BIOS positions.

Secondary vBIOS: The only thing that makes the system somewhat stable for me is running the card on the secondary (quiet) vBIOS. If I also limit the clock speed to ~2900 MHz and set power limit to -5%, it helps as well, but honestly everything should work at default settings, and this workaround doesn’t feel acceptable for a high-end card.

Temps are fine, everything else in the system is stable under stress tests, but in games the driver crash is completely random.

At this point I’m running out of ideas. Has anyone else managed to permanently fix this, or is secondary vBIOS + downclocking the only workaround? I’m also considering RMA’ing my RAM just to rule it out.

Jeka · 2025-09-25T08:53:22+0100

Firegod said:
Any 3rd party software installed as that can cause instability. Notorious things like Corsair icue, MSI afterburner, Asus Armoury, etc.

I don’t really have much 3rd party software installed. The only ones running are FanControl, Wallpaper Engine, TranslucentTB (taskbar), and Razer Synapse 4.

FanControl and Synapse are kind of necessary for my setup, but I did try running without Wallpaper Engine and TranslucentTB, but unfortunately it didn’t make any difference, the crashes still happened.

Firegod · 2025-09-25T12:49:50+0100

Jeka said:
I don’t really have much 3rd party software installed. The only ones running are FanControl, Wallpaper Engine, TranslucentTB (taskbar), and Razer Synapse 4.

FanControl and Synapse are kind of necessary for my setup, but I did try running without Wallpaper Engine and TranslucentTB, but unfortunately it didn’t make any difference, the crashes still happened.

I would say if you've tested on a fresh windows install (no unnecessary apps, just windows, drivers and your games) and it happens then that is very strange. For both the Asus card and now the Sapphire card to exhibit the same behaviour, two new cards from two different manufactures, and to follow from your old Intel build to the upgraded AMD build. Yeah very odd. I'd say give it another go on fresh windows but nothing else. Are the GPU cables from the PSU, two separate ones? What RAM are you using? If that is running EXPO maybes set it back to default in BIOS as well for testing.