Hello HeronScremin I am also having this problem, had it for the last couple of months
I have a 6950 xt and for me this happens seemingly at random. I checked with msi afterburner and would see massive gpu core clock spikes. My pc starts lagging and audio becomes distorted, making it basically unusable until I restart. Which fixes it until it happens again. This can happen when doing anything, from gaming to just ordering files on my pc.
I have tried a bunch stuff already (none of which worked):
- Going into bios settings and turning of SAM support and AMP support
- Going into windows settings and turning off every "effect" to have more "performance"
- Reinstalling windows completely
- Reinstalling drivers from fresh (Using a driver uninstaller in windows safe mode)
- Going into windows display options -> GPU options and turning it all off
- Going into the registry to make sure the settings were disabled
- Use a different non chromium browser
- Scan my pc for malware (with malwarebytes and windows defender seperate, nothing was found)
- Using windows update drivers for my gpu instead of AMD given ones
- Going into services and turning off every single non windows service
- Turning off every program that I had running
- Checking my Event log on DWM (doesn't give anything info)
- Making the taskbar non transparent of windows
- Using windows terminal commands like SFC, and the like to see if there are any errors found (there were none found and did this multiple times)
- Signing up to the windows insider program thinking it might be fixed in a newer version (it was not)
The one thing that did work for me is uninstalling windows completely and installing a linux distro instead.
Which for me personally isn't really a fix. I use many windows only programs so I cannot really make a jump to linux unless I would use a VM lose performance and where this issue just might happen again.
I recently discovered a way to restart the gpu driver with "win + ctrl + shift + b" but have not yet gotten the chance to test if this actually does something. I also see this more as a bandaid instead of a proper fix since this just shouldn't be happening in the first place
So this is either a random software issue (which I highly doubt), or a Windows11/AMD issue that has not yet been found/fixed.
TL;DR: nothing worked, didn't find a fix unless you count using linux.
In general I think this is something Microsoft/AMD has to fix. Sorry I couldn't be of any more help, unless you want to switch to linux.
