I’m having a frustrating issue where every game I try to play on my Gigabyte 9070 XT graphics card crashes. Games like Cyberpunk, Indiana Jones, Fortnite, and Marvel Rivals all shut down mid-play. I’ve tried so many things: running the card at stock settings, undervolting, installing the display drivers both with and without AMD Adrenalin software, and even switching between the stock and overclocked BIOS on the card. The crashes seem to be driver timeouts causing the game to just close, sometimes previously taking down my whole PC. Has anyone else dealt with this or found a solid fix? Really want to get back to smooth gaming without these crashes.
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I’ve been battling similar crashes with my 9070 XT and what helped me was disabling the ‘Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling’ option in Windows settings. It’s under Graphics Settings, and turning that off seemed to stop the frequent driver timeouts. Also, running the game in borderless windowed mode instead of fullscreen has helped me avoid crashes. Worth trying if you haven’t already.
Sounds like the driver timeout is the culprit here. A lot of people have found success by clean installing the latest AMD drivers using DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) in safe mode, then reinstalling the newest stable driver version without the optional extras like Radeon Software. Also, make sure Windows is fully updated and disable any overclocking software running in the background that might interfere. Sometimes custom BIOS on the card can cause instability, so if possible, try flashing the official stock BIOS from Gigabyte’s site to see if stability improves.
Oh nice, I hadn’t tried toggling hardware acceleration yet. I’ll give that a shot and see if it helps. Thanks!