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[crspears]

with bar and Sam enabled entire pc crashes with blackscreen and no error message

disabling resizebar in bios fixes crashes and increases perfomance. happens mostly with dx12 games

[cwiggles]

Hi,

it would be helpful if you could provide us with a full spec breakdown of your PC, including such things as

• Motherboard (make and model and bios revision installed)
• CPU Specs
• RAM Specs
• GFX Card Specs
• Operating System
• HDD/SSD specs

Also, does the issue only happen when running games and if so which ones? Just wondering if it's a specific game engine related issue or not.

First thing I would check to see if there is a newer bios for your motherboard, and if so update it and then see if the issue persists. Without knowing more about your setup, it is going to be hard to provide more concise advice.

About the only thing I can suggest is to use DDU to do a clean uninstall of the GFX card drivers and do a fresh re-install of them just in case the currently installed version did not install properly. More so if you changed gfx cards at some point, especially so if you swapped brands as well. 

Hopefully others here can offer some other advice as well. 

Craig

[crspears · Accepted solution]

Disabling resizebar helped the black screen crashes but they came back. And no config would stop them. It got to the point where a crash would happen every 1 hr or less. I recently replaced my cpu as I've been haunted by these bugs for a long time. That seemed to help until I was playing dragons dogma 2. These crashes usually only happen with dx12 games that use an always online drm that access the rootkit like eac or denuvo. 

Ddu and mobo bios were done. Reseating and reposting cpu I had done once as well, before replacing a 5600x after a whea event concerning a faulty core. These crashes don't give error logs most of the time. The most recent crashes with the new cpu haven't given any relevant event viewer crashes. Sometimes when the pc crashes like this it restarts and I hear win startup sound but the screen doesn't come on. Other times it doesn't post and I have to hold my pc power button. I have used various stress test software for the mobo psu cpu gpu and ram. No errors detected. 

I reinstalled win11 today and the crashes have stopped. Reinstalling win11 seems to be the only fix.  Sometimes when these crashes happen SAM gets disabled in Radeon software and I can't turn it back on until I go into bios and disable and then immediately Re enable 4t decoding and resizebar--even though they are still on. Its like radeon doesnt recognize they are enabled after a crash. 

6900xt merc 319

5700x3d

850w psu

X570 gaming x 

32gb crucial 8gb x4