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No. I don't use that program. Sorry. A friend of mine with a 6800XT just got a Reverb G2 and uses Virtual Desktop. He has been slow to actually dive in though as he has been busy 3-D Printing custom facial interfaces for his new headset rather than actually using it.
I've experienced exactly the same behaviour for about 4 weeks now with my Gigabyte Radeon RX 6800 XT Aorus Master 16GB OC. The card and drivers have been bulletproof for nearly 2 years but trying the latest, recommended and Pro drivers have made no difference. I'm currently running with the 30.0.13023.4001 Windows driver to see if things improve.Now a completely different thing from me - I have lots of driver crashes: black screen for about a minute, whilst sound still running in the background, then image shows up again with driver crash info. It never happens in games, or stress tests etc. But seems to happen a lot in Windows in low power use, e.g. working in Word, Teams, Excel, browsing websites, watching videos on youtube etc. Oddly, it never just happens if I don't touch anything, it only happens when I click something like new tab in the browser, open a new video, new document, click a button on web page that would open another page etc. I sent tons of crash reports about it to AMD but frankly it's getting ridiculous now, stopping me just working during the day, but never stops me gaming...
GPU is Asus TUF 6800XT (bought in OC UK actually) - newest firmware flashed from Asus website, didn't change anything. PSU Corsair RM850 (less than 2y old). I changed CPU from Ryzen 7 5800x to 5800x3D but it still happens. I changed RAM from 4x8GB Corsair 3200 to AMD-certified Kingston 3600 (2x16GB) but that changed nothing. I've tried few versions of drivers (from the past 6 months or so), few BIOS versions for my MSI B550 Carbon motherboard (no change). Reinstalled Windows from zero - no change. I've put RTX 3080 for testing for few days in - zero issues. It has to be the driver or GPU then, for some reason. Even clean OS with just Windows Updates driver - same crashes randomly after a while. I can't catch it in any stress test, benchmark or games as mentioned - unless game is running in the background and I alt-tab to web browser, open some videos and just multi-task in general, then it can happen too. I thought it might be caused by video playing but had it happened few times with no videos opened at all, too.
The above crashes happen either once every 1-2 days or can happen few times in a row. There's no pattern to it, seemingly. Very bizzare thing. And same PC (I changed nothing) worked for almost a year with 0 issues, then this started... I've seen bunch of people writing on Reddit with similar issues, but no solutions (some even got new GPU from the vendor but that didn't fix it either) and everyone seems to be just blaming GPU drivers. No clue what to do about it, aside swapping the GPU to NVIDIA one and be done with it. That said, I had similar (just much worse as it was crashing much more often, even though I've tried 5 different brands of same GPU!) experience with RDNA 1 card, which forced me to get RTX 2070S instead (and never had such issues with that one, though it had other NVIDIA-related issues). Said NVIDIA card I swapped later to current one and here we are again, a year later.
Any ideas? I am fresh out of anything else I can try.
EDIT: What has occurred to me is that some time before it started to happen, I got Alienware OLED monitor, which has full G-Sync Ultimate module. Makes me wonder if that isn't the problem, when said module and non-G-Sync AMD card have some issues talking to each other (VRR is active) at times and it could trigger driver time out for example. And I also run HDR mode a lot in Windows, which perhaps influences it as well somehow.
In my case I sold the card for good cash (I can't have unstable PC on which I work, irrelevant of cost) and the person that bought it has 0 issues. Hence, definitely not the GPU! But I also replaced it with 3080Ti and then 4090 and... no issues with either of these at all since that. Ergo, my machine is fine too! Must've been some incompatibility between that AMD GPU and something else, and the only thing that I've changed before it started was monitor. Hence, back to the monitor. Looking at AMD drivers notes (latest ones I've seen) they mention in known issues crashes of 6k series GPUs with high refresh rate and higher res monitors (DP bandwidth related perhaps?) - I suspect this is what I've encountered, UW 1440p, with 175Hz would likely fit in that description. Fingers crossed they'll fix it before new GPUs come in Dec.
Thanks will get these on tomorrow for callisto and NFS support. Been using 22.11.1 and been rock solid.
Seen issues with the AMD cards being sensitive to display port cables. My advice to get a good quality cable. Club 3d for example.
I have 4 different DP cables (latest one attached to Dell QD OLED, but also one from LG UW monitor, Samsung one other branded) - none of them made a difference here.
I have Win10 Pro, so how would one go about to prevent MS from updating the drivers ? Just realized it wiped my AMD drivers too as the AMD Catalyst is gone from the right desktop menu. Trying to launch it from the Start menu I get this message.
And the link leads to this on the AMD website, but the link to MS from there seem to change it so one have to download all manufacturers' apps etc, so if you know a set just to prevent the GPU drivers from being updated through MS that would be awesome !
So seems a DDU might be in order and a fresh instal of the proper AMD drivers to be installed !
Thank you for this ! So, this way it will just disable the GPU driver updates, or all 3rd party drivers ? just curious what it does exactly, as it just says 'to not include drivers with windows quality updates'.
Thanks again !
